Mogo punches Lithril hard in the gut 
It's completely understandable that sometimes we make mistakes, we all did at some point, and sometimes still do. I wasn't lashing out at Commanderdoom cause he was a newbie and making mistakes, I was lashing out because, sense of humour or not, he was being a bit of a putz.
Commanderdoom, it's nice to see that you have responded with a "normal" post. I apologize for coming down hard on you, but well, you we're being a bit of a goof. Regardless, you obvioiusly care enough to come here for help, so help you shall get.
Since all other possibilities have already been exhausted on why your water was red, leads me to believe that it could have been an Oligochaete
Aelosoma infestation. Now, this might not definately be it, but it's a good possibility. These are microscopic freshwater worms that live in the substrate of our aquariums. It is completely normal to have them, and at 'normal' populations, they do not cause problems, but when populations get huge, they begin to deplete your water of oxygen and add to the organic waste, hence seriously messing up your water quality (which can lead to many other nasties proliferating). The population of them will only increase to problamatic levels if there is a high organic burden in your aquarium, for example dirty gravel with lots of uneaten food, poop....etc. Regular good maintenance, and proper gravel cleaning will keep them at normal levels. So, you're probably wondering why the water was red? Well, these little guys have tons of little fat globules that just so happen to be pigmented red. When the worms die, and die in large numbers all at once, which would happen in large populations, other naturally occuring organisms (protists etc.) who will use them as a food source, can't keep up with eating them all. The dead decomposing bits of worms will be stirred up by the water current, or fish sifting through the gravel for food, and make your water appear red.
Please keep us posted on your situation, and hopefully after the whole situation is sorted, you'll find that fish keeping is usually a stress free enjoyable hobby.
Here are a couple pics I took of them under the microscope, you can see the little red fat balls I was talking about
And a close up, under 400x magnification
, I know I've screwed up when I first started and so have many of us. But lets start to point him in the right direction. He is now trying to get his tank sorted so lets give him some encouragement 
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