Wavemaker failure making coral very mad!

[Beefyreefy]

So last night I noticed Corals alive but closed up. This morning they were all closed and some extremely pale. Fish are all acting normally. Did 50% water change, and wasn’t noticing improvement so I was looking for an equipment failure or reason for the tanks appearance. There was some algae build up my grounding probe so I went to clean it off and it electrocuted me! Found the culprit, old wavemaker under a rock structure, one to the wires disintegrated, like an inch long section. Thinking I at minimum have removed the electrical discharge into the tank, but I may have a little copper/metal contamination. Any thoughts on how to proceed here?. Going to do another 50% water change when it’s up to temp, but I’ll take any advice. Hoping most of my coral survives as it’s literally all mature colonies.

 

[EricR]

Sounds like you removed the stray voltage culprit and you have a ground probe so I'd say you're clear,,, unless I missed some other concern.

 

[Beefyreefy]

Sounds like you removed the stray voltage culprit and you have a ground probe so I'd say you're clear,,, unless I missed some other concern.

Do you think the copper or whatever metal was in the section of wire that disintegrated enough to contaminate the water? I’m hoping I clear out enough with water changes. As it’s Christmas I don’t think I can get a poly filter for two days anyways, but I do have enough salt and rodi to completely replace the tank water if necessary.

 

[EricR]

Do you think the copper or whatever metal was in the section of wire that disintegrated enough to contaminate the water? I’m hoping I clear out enough with water changes. As it’s Christmas I don’t think I can get a poly filter for two days anyways, but I do have enough salt and rodi to completely replace the tank water if necessary.

Good question -- no idea.
"Feels" unlikely to be significant to me unless we're talking about a lot of exposed wire for a long time,,, but I don't know anything for a fact.

 

[Beefyreefy]

Update- disaster. The wavemaker failure ended up killing like 25lbs of chalice, montipora and acropora…. I needed a reset on the tank because I was out of room but I wish it wasn’t like this. Fortunately, most of my euphillia, scolies, sinulara, softies and my giant rbta all survived. Also lost a fox face and hawk fish but my tangs all survived. When I’m done crying I’ll post a before and after shot.