I had a catastrophe the week end of the lansing swap. I got home from the swap and my 75g reef, which has been up and running for about a year looked like a glass of milk. I opened up my stand to see the sump and there were suds from the top of the sump all the way to the bottom of the tank. The skimmer was going absolutely crazy

I always wash my filter socks in the washing machine, 2x rinse,no soap. I let them air dry and install them. I recently bought a new washer and I think one of the kids may have overloaded it and it didn't rinse all of the soap out of the previous load. I lost 2 fish and four corals before I could start to get this problem corrected.

To fix the problem I changed 50+ gallons over the last week added fresh carbon every three days. I got the skimmer running and it's skimming again(no soap suds). I had to move a lot of my live rock to get the dead fish out of the system. I haven't lost anything else but nothing is happy in my system right now. My haddoni carpet decided to go on the move and he hasn't budged since I put him in there. He seems ok just tucked up in a different rock. My cleaner shrimp made it--I don't know how but he is ok.

Has anyone had this problem before? I'm doing all I know to do for this. Is there anything else I should be doing?

---Chris