Advice on what to do after short circuit

[nicreef]

Hi my tank in office kinda crashed after a short circuit on sat night. Only realized it today when my colleague gave me a call at 6am.

damage so far: all fish dead but LPS, Zoas and anemone still seems ok. morning looks bad but after i manage to get flow from sump back to tank, all seems ok...elegence open back as large as before, torch too. zoas starting to open nicely.

couple of question on my mind now which i need advice on:

1. anemone: they can make things worst if they start to die off (at first i thought it is gone. totally dint see him in the morning. now he is starting to come back). Do i need to remove the anemone or is recovering??

2. dead fish beneath rock: i had 5 fish in my tank. so far recovered 2 bodies. 3 more cant find

- goby: small so i not that worried

- mandarin: saw his body beneath rock liao but to remove him i need to shift rock

- clown fish: still mia.

thought i should remove them to lower ammonia. but scared remove rock and stiring of sand bed will cause mini cycling..dont want to stress my LPS and softies furthur.

3. the moment i step in i can smell the rotten egg smell liao. dint really test coz first thought is to restore power remove dead fish (den i got injured by the bloody frag scissors that fell onto my leg). After got back from clinic only did a bacteria dose. Finally got time to test and salifert test kit showed me <0.25 ammonia, 0 no2(read from top. side is 0.25 but instruction says top so....) and 35ppm for no3. I prepared a pail of mixed salt water to do wc liao but since only no3, should i allow my bio pellets to work it's way or should i do a WC (but i have no spare bacteria to dose right now).

4. was preparing to pay the deposit for new 5 ft tank....this got me thinking about doing a large tank in office. if crash the cost is gonna be higher but yet was thinking that the higher water volume would make survival of life stock higher during a electric crash?? usually only no one in office from sat noon - mon morning. in fact i usually come in on sun coz my skimz overflow tends to fail from time to time but dint this sunday coz it worked fine for last few days. add to that my office is in west n i stay in east so i got lazy haha.

additional background: office electricity trip twice since start of year (guess this is what happens when ur office has 4 tanks....). overflooding of tank due to failure of skimz overflow twice. once when i was in office and once when i was out of town (lucky for me after first failure i moved pump higher so overflow damaged was minimal).

so with all this wonder if i am ready for a larger tank?

5. some clam expert please tell me how is my clam doing and how to save it?? =p

[nicreef]

o ya one more question:

should i feed my oyster and pytofeast in modertation? or stop till tank recovers?

[Kelvin81]

Your company does equiped with security alarm system right (most office does), so you can enhance it with notification to your mobile when there is a trip. So you can do prevention. Just my thought.

[nicreef]

Your company does equiped with security alarm system right (most office does), so you can enhance it with notification to your mobile when there is a trip. So you can do prevention. Just my thought.

mm haha i dont think it has......just a simple office.....

but probably should explore that idea..see if anyway to notify if power trip before getting a new tank.

[KELVINx3]

dragonette must remove as they give out poisonous substances iirc and memory dont fails me. do major water changes. anemone just leave it

[nicreef]

Ok remove the dragonet. Stuck between rocks.

[DottyClown]

Maybe can consider installing a UPS as a back-up power source.

[iskay]

I think you should do a 50% WC. If the anemone dies, you will surely notice. it will melt and stink like no other.

[Firestarter]

Stop all feeding for now and do a 50% WC. If I were you I will do 80% WC... just being kiasu.

[tropic]

This is the time u wish you had a good skimmer to help

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[nicreef]

Maybe can consider installing a UPS as a back-up power source.

mms whats that?? i probably am going to put the 5ft tank on hold till i can get some sms system or power back up source. Also got to put on hold as gf isnt too pleased about my 3rd crash....1st tank i had for 3 yrs crashed in dec...2nd tank ard feb both due to my adding of addictive...3rd tank finally got it all swee swee bom pi pi with the addition of water capacity via sump to counter the effect of tank sensitivity for nano tank but end up power trip probably due to the arowana splashing water onto plug in my friend fresh water tank

I think you should do a 50% WC. If the anemone dies, you will surely notice. it will melt and stink like no other.

Stop all feeding for now and do a 50% WC. If I were you I will do 80% WC... just being kiasu.

ok i just did a 10% change today noon. tml another 20%....add in water from sump running to tank i guess around 100% WC liao... (at least i hope it is).

office on lvl 3 n no lift...+ in the hectic morning i ended up with this

so hard to make a trip to irwana to buy DI water hehe....any bros in the west (near pandan loop) that i can buy DI water or mixed salt water from if needed????

This is the time u wish you had a good skimmer to help

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using a bm curve 7 for my 80litre tank so kinda over killing by 7 times....had to wait a few hrs before i can use it as i dosed bacteria and it was overflowing within 5 minutre at first....hopefully i can return to a happy tank tml morning

sorry for the slow reply...KOed after visiting vincent to inform him that i putting the tank on hold...

[nicreef]

hmm just googled UPS...

not going to burn as big a hole in my pocket as i first feared...

http://www.newegg.com/UPS/SubCategory/ID-72

any expert can give advice on how to know which 1 to get if we do....probably can get my fresh water colleague to share the cost