Metal Halide Exploded (1 Viewer)

[HolyBanana]

Ok, I got home today and saw that half of my tank was white and immediately knew something was wrong. I noticed that my corals were half bleached and a quarter of my top rocks where completely white. Then I opened my hood and noticed that one of my metal halides had cracked and busted open. My poor wrasse got burns all over.
The question is, now what? should I do a water change?
everything else looks good, but im not sure if these bulbs can cause any damage.

 

[Andy]

Run Carbon! Water change if you can, but carbon should take care of it. Water change = more stress if not same ph, temp,etc...

 

[Niko5]

Yea do the carbon and do a normal 10% water change. Try and pull out as much of the glass as you can. Was it Single end or Double? I guess single end huh? Was it just the outer tube that blew up and the inner tube was still lit? Or was it completely blown up?

Could anything have splashed the glass?

 

[HolyBanana]

water problably splashed the glass. It was a single.
The outer tube is what completely cracked.
I will be doing a 10% water change then. I have carbon in the filter, but I will have to change it.

 

[fishcraze]

sorry to hear that.. Holybanana. that's suck! yeah run carbon.. and do some water changes. hope your sps will be ok since they are more sensitive..
i guess you used single end bulbs? since if it's double end the broken glass should be retained in the pendant?

 

[MCR]

Wow... sorry to hear about this incident. At least your house is still standing (yknow how these things can go). Hope you can clean things up quickly and without much trouble...

 

[Guest]

Jaime, I think at one time or another you clean the bulbs while it hot and it cause the glass to shatter(blown up) sometime later. The damage to corals and fish due to UV burn. Corals directly under the light will most likely be gone. Sorry about yours lost, you been doing so well for a long while. Well, I guess you have a reasons to hit LFS again . Just my opion.

 

[Guest]

Ouch, that sucks, not much else to say, since you got some good advicers already.

 

[landfish]

Jaime

Wow that blows.....I am sorry to here that. I hope your tank recovers and you do not lose too much. I would think that your tank was hit by allot of UV and that is what did most/all of the harm

Good luck

John

 

[yellowbelley]

my XM 15K blew up yesterday as well so ur not alone....

 

[yellowbelley]

anyone intrested in a SE hqi? lol..

 

[MarkieB]

If your going to put up the bulb for sale please put a price according to site rule!
Thanks!