:shout: I only told one person I did this because I was so embarrassed and aggravated with the situation.
I was doing the regular wc and cleanup a few week's back and made up a new sock of phosguard to toss in my media tray.
I then got busy preparing meat and grilling out with company and had a few cocktails.
Later I walked by and noticed it there so I tossed it rite in and went on with what I was doing.
Later when I thought about it , it was 2 late my tank was dusted with aluminum oxide .
Within hours I had a tankwide polyp retraction , I did a wc in desperation but it was to late.
I killed almost all my lps in the first 48 hours starting with the coral with the most exposed / fleshy polyps.
My lobo melted in the 1st 10-12 then the bubble coral Duncan frogspawn and hammer coral died then the lord acans after day 4-5 (i got my hopes up that they would make it.
Then my orange crush acan echinata lost its color when I saw it going I gave up hope. The orange crush echinatahad 24 mouths it was my center piece along with my orange n blue lobo and branching bubble coral.
Over the next week i watched my le zoa drags that I'd spent the last several weeks buying and trading for , killed red hornets rastas blow pops sunny d's and my single polyp of Darth maul zoa .. The list goes on.
My nems are all still alive but very pissed at me , moving around more than ever and staying drawn up 80% of the time.Also it seems the green and yellow zoas an palys were least affected , and ofcoarse GSP was closed up like everything but was the first to open back up, and made full recovery , so considering green is the color I have least of I don't have much left to look at.
I'm so sick over dealing with this all I just want the rest to finish dieing so I can start rebuilding from scratch.
Unfortunately there was never anything I could do except not make that mistake again.
So I'm in the market once again for some space filler pieces so if anyone is needing to make room please let me know what you have , I can't afford a rock covered in le coral just common items is what I need for filler pieces so my tank doesn't look so naked.
I'm also bummed because I have been holding and growing out some coral as a gift for another member wile they were getting there tank build together and although they will no doubt get over it I feel ****ty that I promised them some stuff and now have nothing but a lonely toadstool I bought 4 days ago.
I'm considering doing more softies leathers and things of the sort.
Watching my birds nest bleach along with my 7"x8" monti plate along with all the zoa's and lps has made me sick.
Thinking of how I lost 90% of my live stock (excluding fish they were all un affected) and it was my fault makes me feel sick.
It may have been far from impressiveby some standards but I was very proud of how it was coming together , it will take months for me to afford replacing the coral with starter frags again and then I get to hurry up and wait for them to grow up again.
Moral of the story , using GFO & Phosguard un rinsed is bad juju DON'T MAKE THE SAME MISTAKE I DID
I was doing the regular wc and cleanup a few week's back and made up a new sock of phosguard to toss in my media tray.
I then got busy preparing meat and grilling out with company and had a few cocktails.
Later I walked by and noticed it there so I tossed it rite in and went on with what I was doing.
Later when I thought about it , it was 2 late my tank was dusted with aluminum oxide .
Within hours I had a tankwide polyp retraction , I did a wc in desperation but it was to late.
I killed almost all my lps in the first 48 hours starting with the coral with the most exposed / fleshy polyps.
My lobo melted in the 1st 10-12 then the bubble coral Duncan frogspawn and hammer coral died then the lord acans after day 4-5 (i got my hopes up that they would make it.
Then my orange crush acan echinata lost its color when I saw it going I gave up hope. The orange crush echinatahad 24 mouths it was my center piece along with my orange n blue lobo and branching bubble coral.
Over the next week i watched my le zoa drags that I'd spent the last several weeks buying and trading for , killed red hornets rastas blow pops sunny d's and my single polyp of Darth maul zoa .. The list goes on.
My nems are all still alive but very pissed at me , moving around more than ever and staying drawn up 80% of the time.Also it seems the green and yellow zoas an palys were least affected , and ofcoarse GSP was closed up like everything but was the first to open back up, and made full recovery , so considering green is the color I have least of I don't have much left to look at.
I'm so sick over dealing with this all I just want the rest to finish dieing so I can start rebuilding from scratch.
Unfortunately there was never anything I could do except not make that mistake again.
So I'm in the market once again for some space filler pieces so if anyone is needing to make room please let me know what you have , I can't afford a rock covered in le coral just common items is what I need for filler pieces so my tank doesn't look so naked.
I'm also bummed because I have been holding and growing out some coral as a gift for another member wile they were getting there tank build together and although they will no doubt get over it I feel ****ty that I promised them some stuff and now have nothing but a lonely toadstool I bought 4 days ago.
I'm considering doing more softies leathers and things of the sort.
Watching my birds nest bleach along with my 7"x8" monti plate along with all the zoa's and lps has made me sick.
Thinking of how I lost 90% of my live stock (excluding fish they were all un affected) and it was my fault makes me feel sick.
It may have been far from impressiveby some standards but I was very proud of how it was coming together , it will take months for me to afford replacing the coral with starter frags again and then I get to hurry up and wait for them to grow up again.
Moral of the story , using GFO & Phosguard un rinsed is bad juju DON'T MAKE THE SAME MISTAKE I DID
