Holy Cow ! That is awful! Those are some really nice fish you lost. Now I understand why you are not in the "reefing mood" lately. That is really too bad Mike....again your tank blew me away when I saw it...it is really gorgeous. I moved quite amount of rock around this past year, but I did not move the
base rock that sits on the bottom of the glass. I guess I'll learn from your post and I won't even think of moving it now. Thanks for posting your experience ...hopefully, as you suggested it will prevent someone else from doing the same and consequently ease your pain a little.
I sorta made a mistake like that myself when I used a 5 year old ORP probe to control my ozonizer. What an idiot I am! The probe DID calibrate but I found out later that it was not functioning properly. Anyway, this happened at the beginning of the year after my AEFW incident. What the AEFWs did not get, Chuck got the rest!
Yup 100% loss of all acros after they slowly wasted away...totally my fault. 5 years of growth gone over a period of 2-3 months
In the end it probably was for the best.... I didn't have to worry about AEFWs anymore after that!
I was losing the battle anyhow, but starting to eradicate them by just hitting them with a
power head on a stick and letting all the fish gorge themselves on them. They actually fought each other to get the worms in the water column!
I still run ozone and i really makes a difference in water clarity. However, I have a new probe and I clean it every 3 days or so by simply soaking it in vinegar and lightly brushing the platinum tip with a tootbrush. I also periodically test it in a standardized ORP solution and will calibrate it frequently.
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