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Typing this on my phone in a hurry so please excuse typos. Well today luckily I am off work. Slept in and was just woke up to "babe, the fish tank is overflowing"

Last night I put a 1/4" tube in my 40g directly from the RODI to top off and fell asleep. Floor is flooded. Salinity is at 1.010 (from 1.026)

Saddleback an fairy wrasse seem fine. Corals are not happy. Afraid I'm going to lose them. My scoly, BGM chalice, and a bunch of frags.

Transferring everything over to a smaller tank on the other side of the room so I can start sucking up water with the rug dr. Lucky I have one handy. Lot of work ahead of me. Gotta move a lot of stuff, clean up this flood, and try to save my livestock all at once
 
That royally sucks man. Don't throw in the towel to quick if the LPS looks bad. They can still come back when all you can see is skeleton.
 
Typing this on my phone in a hurry so please excuse typos. Well today luckily I am off work. Slept in and was just woke up to "babe, the fish tank is overflowing"

Last night I put a 1/4" tube in my 40g directly from the RODI to top off and fell asleep. Floor is flooded. Salinity is at 1.010 (from 1.026)

Saddleback an fairy wrasse seem fine. Corals are not happy. Afraid I'm going to lose them. My scoly, BGM chalice, and a bunch of frags.

Transferring everything over to a smaller tank on the other side of the room so I can start sucking up water with the rug dr. Lucky I have one handy. Lot of work ahead of me. Gotta move a lot of stuff, clean up this flood, and try to save my livestock all at once
 
Ouch. I'm pretty sure the fish will be alright, but I've never had a big drop in salinity like that with coral before.

I have float valves on my ATO and WC stations, but before I had those going, I flooded my sump closet on numerous occasions. I know hind-site is 50/50, but until you get some float valves, run that RODI line into a separate container, then dump it into your tank from that container. Better to have a flooded floor with RODI water than to drop you salinity in your DT, and flood your floor with SW.

I hope all goes will with the recovery. I'm sure it will bounce back for ya. Keep us posted. I'd volunteer to stop by and help if I were at least in the same state...
 
Main concern is getting the water cleaned up. I have a rug dr pro, like you rent from Home Depot or Walmart, except I hav the bigger version. The floor is in the basement are just carpet sitting on concrete in this room, linoleum in the adjacent laundry room/ hallway, and bare concrete in the garage. I'm pretty sure the coral isn't going to make it, I have siphoned water out I the tank, moved it and the corals to another tank, and gave them a power head and a heater. I will have to adjust the salinity later. I have so much stuff to move just to get to where I can start sucking up water. Then it will not take me long to pull out what the rug dr can get. Them ill just set up fans. This is such a PITA.

Edit: Most of the coral moved over (doesn't take me long to snap shots and get them posted w/ photobucket app)

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The water is cloudy because the coral has tons of white mucous stuff coming off into the water
 
Ok

I have bags of carbon. Start running them in HOB filter in the new tank??
 
Nothing in there looks like it's done for........just looks a little pissed.
 
Thanks everybody
Thanks Barry. Nothing you can do at this point I will let you know
 
ohh man that sucks! ive had the sump on my 135 split 1 week after we moved into a new house, wife nearly killed me. good luck on the clean up. i think your livestock will be ok, the corals might take a day or 2 or fully open up again. but i am by no means a pro.
 
Whoops duplicate thread. New phone does posts twice with comments sometimes, must do the same with new posts. Mods delete
 
The difference is my girlfriend (not wife) knows that if I had to choose her or the hobby.. Well...
 
Don't let her see that post or you might be sleeping in that wet fish room :fish:

Sorry to hear this , if there is anything ya need just holler.

Edit: Don't let her see that post or you might be sleeping in that wet fish room.
 
I would absolutely love to see the day that she tries to kick me out of my own bed!

In all seriousness, she's an easy going girl, and her main concern was that the fish and corals will be okay.

I got most of the water up. I'm about to go to Walmart and get another large high velocity fan.

As far as I can tell (and this is strange) the water didn't go under the wall. The tank was in the corner, but the water seemed to go toward the middle of the room. I don't think the damage will be extensive. It does seem like a lot less than what it should have been. I had to have spilled 20+ gallons out as the unit ran for 10+ hours. Actually it had to have been more than 20 gallons. If saltwater wasn't heavier, I woul have had freshwater only in the tank.

Still strange to me that I only pulled a few gallons out with the rug dr.

Edit: It smells terrible in here.
 
Atlanta Aquarium;894019 wrote: Sorry to hear that. Hope all the corals will be ok.
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Thanks Rit. Unfortunately they are skeletons or nearly skeletons

All frogspawn- skeletons
Scoly- nearly only skeleton
BGM chalice and others- skeleton
My pink and green montis that were growing together- skeleton
Undata- skeleton
Dragon soul favia- fine?
Few other sps- skeletons
Zoas- still nudi infested
Everything else- dead.

This tank was a disaster from the start. I'll have to start over.

Edit: Acans- skeleton.

That dragon soul favia is a hardy coral. It still has it colors and looks fine.
 
Don't give up on the skeletons....I guarantee you at least some of them come back.
 
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