bamburgb Posted March 27, 2020 Share Posted March 27, 2020 So as some of us maybe stuck at home be extra careful when working on your tank. As a good reminder to people when doing work on your sump and taking it offline, make sure your tank has enough surface agitation for gas exchange. I started adding a baffle to My sump last night to make a refugium and didn’t ensure enough surface agitation, when I came down this morning I saw my yellow tang struggling to breath and 2 other fish at the surface trying to get air and a few others moving around the tank extremely slowly. Luckily after realizing what was happening and why (took only a few seconds to think what could cause it) I moved my gyers to the surface and after about 15 min everyone seemed like they were back to normal. I know some people may say you could just bring the sump back on but I was waiting for the baffle to dry and the sump was drained for this and the rodi hadn’t finished making enough water for it yet (incorporating a 30 gallon water change while doing this). 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bevo5 Posted March 27, 2020 Share Posted March 27, 2020 Yikes - good catch. Sometimes I catch things I've done and just have a 'wow, i'm an idiot' moment. So many of the issues are self-inflicted wounds in this hobby. Like turning everything back on after a water change. I have to go through each switch on the apex and make sure it's done like 10 times. Super OCD. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bamburgb Posted March 28, 2020 Author Share Posted March 28, 2020 Ya I still can’t believe I didn’t lose any of the fish due to that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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