Electric shock therapy

[Regric25]

On Friday afternon when my lights came on I noticed my nice bright orange fungia was dead... :( Then I noticed the polyps on my ORA green birds nest was sucked in...odd since it never brings in its polyps. Then I took a look at my whole tank and noticed ALL of my LPS, softies were closed up and ALL my SPS was pale with 0 polyp extension. I noticed my fish seemed fine but to make sure I fed the tank with mysis and coral frenzy in hopes that the fish would eat and my corals might open for the yummy food. The fish responded greatly like normal and are doing fine as of now.

Since friday afternoon I have watched ALL my SPS slowly lose color. My frogspawn with over 15 heads is closed up, my RBTA has crawled under a rock and is not as fluffy as it is normally. Basically, all my coral is VERY mad! I have 13 different types and color of SPS that I have carefully chosen for my tank and they have all been doing great and growing fast with nice color...Until now :/

After troubleshooting my tank for 2 hours on Friday, I noticed the power side of my stunner strip plug was hanging in my tank!!!!! I have been sending electrical current through my tank for about 14 hrs! :/ I am so freaking mad at myself for this. I worked so hard and spent so much time, money and stress on this tank to get it where I want it and I go and do this!

As of today my zoas and palys and some LPS seem to be coming around but the SPS is a different story. I have grown to love SPS and have built my system to properly house and grow the awesome corals, so for this to happen kills me. :( All of them are very pale or white but there is no tissue recession and the polyps on a few of them are trying to come out.

So what I have done is I have added a big bag of carbon to the sump and I am running the skimmer wetter and tomorrow morning I will be doing a 30 gallon water change. There was no bare wires in the tank it was just a power cord but the other end was plugged in. If there is anything I missed please let me know.

Please pray and keep your fingers crossed my corals bounce back from this.... Thanks!

[justahobby]

Sorry, that sucks. This hobby can be so aggravating when your realize just hoe quickly it can all go south. I say hang in there and don't fret. You figured out and stopped the problem. The worst thing you could do Is stress them out more. I would break the WC in half. Do 15g then see if you think it needs the other 15 the next day or few. The only reason I could see for carbon, wet skimming, and WC would be to remove any slime the corals are giving off under stress.

[Mr Cob]

what Justin said....

Sorry Rick! You have an amazing tank and you'll get it where you want it again.

[ErikH]

gl buddy.

[Europhyllia]

That's terrible. Glad you didn't get hurt (physically) in all of this. I hope things recover. :(

[jrnannery]

Best of luck. I know how I would feel if something similar were to happen.

[Regric25]

Thanks for the well wishes everyone. Everything slowly seems to be bouncing back very very slowly. Hey its what this hobby is about. Im still not out of the woods but polyps are starting to extend more. Palys and Zoas are all open and doing great.

[hobogato]

good, glad to hear things are looking up

[Regric25]

It turns out that some forms or electric shock is actually theraputic to corals

interesting read. http://news.nationalgeographic.com/n...ectrified.html