Tank NUked by storm

[Mike]

Sorry to hear about this Mike. Where you not home when the power was out? Or did it happen that fast while you slept? Seems like you'd have a few hours to potentially respond before total catastrophe?

I think it was the size of the fish and potentially the bacterial load that accelerated the process. I have never had so many fish and never so many large ones. I woke up at 7am (later than normal because no alarm clock) for work and the tank was melting away.

[pjr]

I think it was the size of the fish and potentially the bacterial load that accelerated the process....

Do you think probiotics had any factor in such a quick degradation of the oxygen?

[Mike]

PAt,

It is hard to say that it would not have done the same thing wihout it. I had some pretty large fish that likely consumed a lot of oxygen as well. I still plan on running my system on a bacterial driven method.

I blame myself for being so foolish as to not have had a stand by generator installed. I have been on the fence for a few years and thought how many other things I could get with the roughly 3500.00 one would cost. That power outage cost me that and then some. I am literally sick about it (not so much the cost) but losing my fish. Some people think it is silly to get attached to something like a fish but I really loved mine.

[Tom@HaslettMI]

So sorry to hear about your losses. I'm not an SPS guy but I'd gladly share anything else I have that you're interested in.

Tom