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I’ve heard that sometimes it can just be stress. Maybe in just one coral. In that I mean one entity, usually a coral, will get stressed for whatever reason. Its response is to go defensive and put out defensive chemical toxins. The corals around it sense danger and start putting out their own toxins. This permiates throughout the tank and causes a chemical toxin crash. It could be your parameters and tank biome are fine, but something triggered coral chemical warfare.
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Not harping on it, but didnyou see shanes insta at RAP? Looked like he dumped a yeti cooler full of sticks into a frag tank to setup lol.
Understand. Just saying if one is looking for a reason causing a tank wide RTN, it’s a possibility.

Had a friend that had a 300 gallon Acro loaded system. Absolutely beautiful tank. Wife demanded a vacation, so they let her sister set the tank for a week. Gave her good instructions, but Murphys law set in. She used a little windex on the front glass to remove a few smudges. Too short a time for windex to leech through the glass, but overspray probably got in it. Shouldn’t have caused a full tank crash in four days time, but it did. Probably enough stress on the corals to start chemical warfare. Entire tank was dead within a week.
 

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Understand. Just saying if one is looking for a reason causing a tank wide RTN, it’s a possibility.

Had a friend that had a 300 gallon Acro loaded system. Absolutely beautiful tank. Wife demanded a vacation, so they let her sister set the tank for a week. Gave her good instructions, but Murphys law set in. She used a little windex on the front glass to remove a few smudges. Too short a time for windex to leech through the glass, but overspray probably got in it. Shouldn’t have caused a full tank crash in four days time, but it did. Probably enough stress on the corals to start chemical warfare. Entire tank was dead within a week.
I'm sure the index indiscriminately killed it all tank wide. It didn't just get in one spot of water and kill one or two which killed the rest as a result. Tank wide things are a different issue than things spreading. Tank wide is "hey man...ya whole **** is ****** up" lol
 

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Understand. Just saying if one is looking for a reason causing a tank wide RTN, it’s a possibility.

Had a friend that had a 300 gallon Acro loaded system. Absolutely beautiful tank. Wife demanded a vacation, so they let her sister set the tank for a week. Gave her good instructions, but Murphys law set in. She used a little windex on the front glass to remove a few smudges. Too short a time for windex to leech through the glass, but overspray probably got in it. Shouldn’t have caused a full tank crash in four days time, but it did. Probably enough stress on the corals to start chemical warfare. Entire tank was dead within a week.
Ouch they make cleaners without ammonia. Also spray into cloth.
 

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I'm sure the index indiscriminately killed it all tank wide. It didn't just get in one spot of water and kill one or two which killed the rest as a result. Tank wide things are a different issue than things spreading. Tank wide is "hey man...ya whole **** is ****** up" lol
Yes, your thoughts, were said much better than mine. Not an individual coral stressing out, but something making lots of them stressing at once.
 

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Tank is in a garage. Could a creature have used it as a toilet causing an ammonia spike. Mouse. Cat. Raccoon. Who knows
Whos tank? Ive heard garage doors and all the mechanics of opening/closing can cause metal issues plus all the dust/debris of being a garage moving around.
 

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