I might be done...but not today
 

I had a tank incident last night. I'm not really certain what happened, my best guess is some kind of clam spawning event.

I've had spawn events happen before, they're never pleasant but never have they been this bad. I can't get the water to clear, I can't get my skimmer running (there's no surface tension in the water, it looks like it's trying to skim freshwater).

I'm watching my raccoon butterfly die, I mean, he might make it, but it would be a miracle. He's on the ground panting heavily.

I've lost my flame hawk. He would be nearly 6 years old. :cry:

To lose them like this. I can't take it. Yesterday, everything was fine. Even at midnight, the last time I checked on things before going to bed. This morning I woke up to a disaster.

Two 25 water changes, a sump cleanout, some carbon, and a double checking of all equipment to rule out equipment failure.

Sorry guys, I just need to vent. It's been a rough couple of weeks, I lost a couple clams over my vacation and a couple others were not looking so good lately, but I thought things were improving. Now this. I honestly feel cursed because anytime I've sort of posted anything about anything that was doing well, or even just feel "hey, this isn't so bad after allo" I get squashed.

I'm obviously not making any decisions in this mental state but I hate to say it, the writing is on the wall. My mental and physical health can't take this anymore.

Oh My God. It's the brittle stars. I can see them. They're all spawning, all the hundreds or thousand of the little tiny brittle stars. Or they're now spawning now at least, maybe in reaction to the water changes. I'm out of RO/DI, I'm out of salt. Even if I wasn't though I'm not sure more water changes tonight are the answer. Maybe tomorrow.

Oh no, so sorry to hear this

Thats all so unfortunate. Hope it doesn't all go down the toilet

:hug: So sorry to hear, I know how horrible it is to watch the fish you love die :sad: Also how frustrating it is when nothing you do helps.

Oh Tony, so sorry to hear! :sad::cry:
Hope things turn around....:neutral:

Oh man Tony I wish I was there to help. What a nightmare :cry:

Oh that sucks, Hope everything turns around

Oh No!
That sucks!! Let us know if theres anything we can do to help!

That was my biggest nightmare when I went into my sump room noticed my skimmer wasn't skimming and smelled coral spawn a few weeks ago. luckily non of my fish were affected or I might of thought of quitting myself :sad: