had a bad day with my tank need some help

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BobbyG123

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i gotta call this morning from my girlfriend that my 75 gal reef flooded all over my house while i was at work there was about 6 inches of water left in my tank so my girlfriend panicing decided to throw freshwater in the tank and fill it a quarter of the way by the time i got home my yellow tang was dead as well as my huge anenome :( i got the salinity right and filled the tank back up and got everything going after loosing all my coral as well as my regal tang yellow tang and my huge condy...the only survivors is my cbs my skunk shirmp and my peperment shrimp and my clown fish and it also looks like my fogsprawn is coming alive again so im crossing my fingers...what happend was the outake to my casnister popped of my pvc i had in the tank to return the water into the tank instead it returned the water alll over my house and i mean allllll over in seperate rooms the bathroom everywhere anyways like i said everything is back up and running and my coraline algae is now red most of it went back to purple but some turned like fire engine red is this ok??
 
recheck hoses every now and then ? My flake food are placed inside the stand next to the canister and i check the hoses every feeding time.
 
Rough luck your live rock should be fine you could quarantine but i dont think it will be an issue how long was the live rock out of water for...Does the rock have a smell to it?
 
I think this might have helped:

quoted from another thred.

"Drilled hole below water level. If the canister leaks, it won't ever empty the tank below that hole."

What is ment is that you drill a small hole in your intake pipe a few inches from the top, so if anything goes wrong the tank will only empty to that hole then siphen will be broken and tube will just suck air.

You can place you canister in a rubbermaid container that will hold those few inches of water too. Might burn up your pump but better than the whole tank draining on the floor imho.

I haven't tested it out myself but it seems like it would take a real powerful pump to suck water through a tube with a hole in it?

Like drinking through a straw with a hole in it.
 
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