8 hours of top off/flooding kills almost everything

[Nano]

+2 mind you 5g of fw in ky tank would drop the salinity pretty dangerously as well

[Lance]

[nrosdal]

well, i just went down and checked for improvements and here is my update


Dead:

sebae anemone 12"
frogspawn
hammer
torch
acans
kenya tree

Still alive (might make it)

carpet anemone
polyps

not the best of turn outs.. but very happy and surprised that the carpet has made it through so far.

Mark, those mushrooms almost are appealing right about now... are you sure you have any extras to spare?

thanks all for condolences

my new ato plan is going to include a 3.5gal ro storage tank that i will fill when needed and will be the only water available to float switch in tank. Been meaning to do this for a while now, lesson learned i guess.

pics coming...

[nrosdal]

i also just noticed that my Seneye sent me an email saying that my ph was way low an hour after i forgot to shut it off... kinda wish i had my emails with a ring on my phone not silent.

here is a chart of the last few days in the tank... ph shouws where things got a bit off track... ammonia has gone up quite a bit with all the die off.



here is the bucket of sadness



and yesterdays fts



and a fts from a week or 2 back

[Borderjumper]

That's good news that the nem is going to pull thru! And like the others, I'm very sorry for your losses.

[marblesab]

Ugh, thats heart breaking. So sorry for the loss!

[Sunee]

That's terrible! Sorry for your losses.

[mike31154]

I've got plenty of Kenya Tree frags if you'd like to repopulate your tank with those. Could also break off a piece of Hammer, it's getting pretty big again.

[nrosdal]

thanks for the offers guys, but i am gonna try to get things back where they should be for a while and make a plan before i start adding things again.

However, if anyone as some mangroves in the okanagan valley i would love to buy a few and try to go that way insted of cheato this time and see how it works.

here are a few pics of the survivors, they seem to be making improvements so things are looking up


orange carnation surprisingly stuck it out and looks semi ok


carpet nem


polyps

[xenon]

Hard lesson.

We never use a top-off container larger than what would fit in the sump if our ATO fails.