WilliamMuk's Reef (4x2x2.5)

[williammuk]

Thanks all for your comments.

I've got good news. Finally managed to trap it just now at about 12noon.

It actually went in earlier but when I released the door, it got stuck!

Anyway, it caught four fishes at one go - Yellow Tang, Corel Beauty, Flame and Clown Wrasse. The moment the Clown realised that it was trapped, it dashed violently around the box. Sometimes threatening to lift up the door even. I kid you not -- with its pointed snout, it was digging at the door based!

Here's a look at the trapped fishes. Pardon the blurry photo as I didn't have time to take a good shot. I was worried that if it escapes, it'll probably never go near the trap again for a long, long time.

[williammuk]

Here it is in a body bag ... errr ... I mean plastic bag.

Sorry, gotta rush out now. Got lunch appointment at parent's place.

Gonna drop it off at ML on the way out. Hope Henry can help me out.

la, la, la, la, la ... today's my lucky day. Yay!

Bye for now. Cheers and happy reefing.

[wa_lanz]

time to borrow ur trap already bro... can pay u another visit as well...

[huskiesg]

Congrats. Patience is really a virtue in this hobby

[yiling]

Hhaha

congrats bro

Finally a load off your mind

so the trap does works after all

[sunny03]

do u think will a shy fish like golden angel go in ?? trying to catch my golden angel with a beta bos leh

[williammuk]

Thanks all.

time to borrow ur trap already bro... can pay u another visit as well... 

Bro wa lanz, sure. I'll be happy to lend it to you. It's now soaking in a pail of water. Let me clean it up a little and I'll contact you to arrange for collection.

do u think will a shy fish like golden angel go in ?? trying to catch my golden angel with a beta bos leh

I think if you wait long enough, it should happen. Lure it with food.

So far, I've got these fishes enter the trap before.

- Yellow, Purple, Chevron and Blue Tangs

- Flame, Coral Beauty and Rusty Angels

- Carberryi and Bartlett Anthias

- Orchid Dottyback

- and of course, Clown Wrasse

These fishes haven't gone into the trap yet:

- Yellow Belly Damsel

- Royal Gramma

- Clarkii Clown

[Chris]

Bro, Why would you trap the anthias? So cruel!!

[williammuk]

Came home.

Power outage.

Since when?!?!

Fishes dead.

Corals dying.

Me sad.

[roidan]

wat???????

what happened big bro? no one was home or the people at home did not notice the outage to the tank? you not using UPS i suppose?

I am that this happened.

I would suggest water change, run to ML to get more salt from Henry.

[wa_lanz]

huh!? wat happened? how come the fishes so fast dead? u went overseas?

[Kurt Cobain]

[loster]

hope that those corals still surviving will pull through...

[RAV-65]

dunno if it's a little late... but i got extra salt if u need...

Call me at 96875522 if u need...

[williammuk]

Thank you, thank you, THANK YOU all for your concern and generous offer to help.

I appreciate it.

Here's what happened ... YESTERDAY

Wife and kids came home to discover power outage. ELCB had tripped.

Wife reset ELCB. I was on my way home at that time.

Kids called me. Screaming frantically ...

"Just now power failure! Lots of fishes dead! Shrimp dead! Skimmer overflow.".

My daughter started giving me a casualty report on my mobile.

"Dead - Corel Beauty, Rusty, Flame, one Cleaner Shrimp, Regal Tang ...."

"Water very dirty ... the rest can't see ..."

My heart sank.

I arrived home. Posted the previous message. Changed out of work clothes to work on tank.

Status check:

- Chiller running. Temperature reading 28.1 deg C.

- All lights on. Switched off 2x250W MH. Only 4x54W T5 on.

- Skimmer looks OK now.

- Water looks OK now.

- Lying dead was Coral Beauty Angel, Rusty Angel and one Cleaner Shrimp.

- Yellow Tang, Purple Tang, Chevron Tang swimming around. Looks OK.

- Can see Regal Tang, Flame Angel, Bartlett Anthias, Carberryi Anthias inside rockscape.

- Other fishes can't see.

- Some SPS RTNed. Some LPS receding.

- Closer observation confirms that Regal Tang and Carberryi are OK. Just frightened.

- But Flame Angel is dead and stuck between some rocks.

- Temperature check - 27.7 deg C. Good. Chiller is functioning OK.

Investigations revealed that the power trip probably occurred at around 9am.

My wife reset ELCB about 7pm.

That makes it about 10 hours that the tank was without circulation.

- The Bartlett is missing. And I can't find the rest of the fishes and shrimps.

- I think they are probably stressed and hiding. So decided to leave it alone.

THIS MORNING

As at this morning, tank looks OK.

Survived:

- 1 x Regal Tang

- 1 x Chevron Tang

- 1 x Yellow Tang

- 1 x Purple Tang

- 1 x Yellow Belly Damsel

- 1 x Clarkii Clown

- 1 x Orchid Dottyback

- 1 x Royal Gramma

- 1 x Carberryi Anthias

- 1 x Cleaner Shrimp

- 1 x Blood Shrimp

- All Softies.

- All Montis. Some Acros.

- Most LPS (except some receding).

Total death toll:

- 1 x Flame Angel

- 1 x Coral Beauty Angel

- 1 x Rusty Angel

- 1 x Cleaner Shrimp

- Some Arcos RTNed.

Still missing:

- 1 x Bartlett Anthias

- 1 x Blood Shrimp

CONCLUSION

Ten hours without water circulation deprived the water of the much needed oxygen.

Must install UPS to provide water circulation and aeration.

I used to have one but it has conked out last year. I had wanted to get a new one

but haven't gotten around to it yet.

Guess this ordeal will speed things up a bit.

Once again, thanks all for your concern and generous offer to help.

That's all for now. Gotta go.

Cheers and may this never happen to you tank.

[blueheaven]

sigh....my condolences....

[strat]

o no so sad to hear that...hope you get your UPS soon.

[giantbicycle]

Sorry to hear this

[loster]

my condolences

[monsterz1975]

Sad to hear about it , all the best bro.

[AlfaRomeo]

Yo William, glad to heard that the casualty list was limited. Could be worst. Thank god that your tank is clean from algae etc etc which could have made the oxygen demand higher and thus more casualties. Get your UPS fixed

[wa_lanz]

10 hrs without circulation and so much casualties already??

[Dispar_Anthias]

bro my condolence to u You will definately come back stronger

[Achilles Tang]

Man!! That really brings home what Anthony Calfo has stressed at his seminar here!

Aquarist will spend tens of thousands of dollars but not spend on backup equipment... I'm gonna make this a priority now! Yikes!!

[subxero]

Man!! That really brings home what Anthony Calfo has stressed at his seminar here!

Aquarist will spend tens of thousands of dollars but not spend on backup equipment... I'm gonna make this a priority now! Yikes!!

I guess if you spent so much on the equipment.. you have no more $$ left for backup equipment..

can only pray for sunny days everyday..