ilovemytank
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I just went through every tank owners worst nightmare ! Tank crash ! I have no idea what happened and am having a weird experience getting it going again. Parents were in town on vacation and loved watching my tank, especially my 14" in diameter carpet anenome taking in a large shrimp that I fed him every other day. This tank has been up and running for years with very healthy coral and fish life. Went to sleep and everything was ok. the next day the anenome turned massive size rocks over like he was retreating from something. I had three huge different types of soft leather corals witch retreated into nothing. My mushrooms all shrunk up and started falling off the rocks. the sponge growth started turning into jelly gook. the anenome was shedding layers off gook. I checked the water and everything wasa testing right. I have two 100 gallon roll up tubs so I made fresh water and started pulling my live rocks and corals that seemed like I could save them and put it all in the tubs. I kept water movement and lighting on these rocks. All my snails turned to liquid rotten death. I had a massive health population of mushrooms that was always expandeding but they were all dying.in my sump all of my caulerpa algea died. I would have glass anenomes in the back drain area in the tank where my threadfin butterfly coulnd't get too. it all died too. the only things that survived was my 9"think and health Blue hippo tang, My yellow hawain tang he's big too. then mythreadfin butterfie, three clowns a few gobiesand a wrasse.what happened . everything died. zI washed all the rocks with fresh water and then rebuilt the tank. this time i mussed pvc piping to build tunnel systems and a cool habitat. the fish are fime. eating normal.i'm not seeing any detrius or algea in the tank yet i have no cleaners or anything. My skimmer is producing a large thick sludge. anyone have a clue what could of happened ? all water parameters test normal. pleassse help !!!!!!!!!!