Todd's ~ 320 Gallon System- A New Biginning?

Well once again - no pictures

And to compound things- I've been working out of town a LOT lately. The feeding I've delegated to my sons, and everything else is sort of automated (even without an APEX)
I havene't been able to play doctor on my ailing system as much.
This weekend, bewtween two water changes, I will have changed about 105 gallons;
still only ~ 33% of my system. This is an attempt to get remaing residue out of the system of the levamisole, and whatever other impurities too.
I am running GAC in a bag in a high flow area,
and still skimming too.

For years, I was a very successful reefer, keepin all kinds of nice sps, and a very mixed reef.
For that reason- I'm not giving up on my system.

To look at my DT/FT now though- you'd never even guess I was successful in the past.
Just about all the coral bleached itself- no it wasn't the lights, of alk, or params, or temperature.

There is a good side to this as well though- you know, when lifes gives you lemons..... sort of thing.
It also ended up killing all those ~ thousand green striped discoma mushrooms I had everywhere!
Seems to have also wiped out the encrusting gorgonean I wanted to also get rid of!
And, ALL the fish are fine, like nothing has happened-
well except the clowns are wondering where their respective BTA's are- seems to have wiped them out too.

I'm pretty positive it was the result of dosing levamisole- at the accepted full strength- 3 times within a 36hr period of time- I only have myself to blame.

So, I"m making lemonade- metaphorically speaking

Now I can start things up again without the invasive 'pest' coral I've been wanting to get rid of.
With the larger system, a lot of rock encrusted etc, it's hard to get that stuff out without distrubing the sps colonies on top too. Not really a problem anymore though.

So people- those that had seen what I thought was my really nice reef,
It will rise again- yea I know, it'll take years like it did this time though.
It will be even better however.

So now I have a FOWLRABC Fish only with live rock and bleached coral!

 

Sorry to hear what you are going through.

 

Your positivity shows that your tank will only get better Todd. I do miss seeing your pics though. When I first joined your tank always inspired me.

 

I'm still around,
fish are all well, as is a few softies, and astrea starfish.

No snails, shrimp, conch, lps or sps

My water is fine though- has been for a while after by debackle.

I'm thinking in September I'll start with some frags one again-
dpt this time they'll spend weeks in my FT- that will NOT be hooked in the system anymore.
I'm taking it off the main system when starting new- on it's own sump.
MIght have to build a much smaller ATS too!

 

Good to see your alive todd. Sorry about the tank issues but im looking forward to the new adventure you have in store.

 

Damn Todd that is tuff, but you will build something beautiful and rise again. I just know it

 

ouffff thats a hard blow, why in Gods name where you dosing levamisole (never heard of this btw)....from a quick google search seems people use it to cure Ich, but sounds like a miracle solution....Never thought you would have bit THAT bullet.... anyway....the harder they fall the better they rise

 

Yesterday I finally got around of taking my FT off the main system, and rigging it's own sump, RP, and ATS
It was only a re-plumbing issue, but it was hard when you re-use lots of fitting you already had, etc.

Here's a pic of my simple sump for the FT only.
With my back lit ATS- I'm going for one side lighting for now.

By putting the FT on it's own system,
I now have 100% of the flow going up to the DT.

 

Levamisole is actually a deworming med for farm animals. I think I saw a used in human colon cancer as well.
There are some threads over on RC on it, trying to get rid of AEFW- Acopora Eating Flat worms.
I was using it for AEFW
There were mixed results, but dosages were given and discussed.
Basically, I got too crazy and dosed my system several times in too short a time period.
Wiped almost everything out- except the fish- which were not affected.
I'll bet the fish have no worms though!

I now plan to dip new to me corals in Bayer, and
place in my now separate FT- off the main system for QT and inspection purposes.

 

Hey all,
Here's some/most of my coral- still in my FT/QT



I think I hear reggae in the background...

And my currently, nearly coralless DT, with a newer/revised scape- took at least #60's + of rock out too.