KMiller Posted November 21, 2011 Share Posted November 21, 2011 Drew's been out of town since Thursday and will be home on Wednesday. I checked on the tank Friday and fed them, and made sure everything was ok. Last night I went out to the Garage (where the tank is for a few more weeks until our 110 is cycled) and noticed a layer of brown algae on everything, and my beautiful huge rbta was way smaller, and brighter pink than normal. I checked the temp and it was in the 60's!!! I checked the heater and it had came unplugged. I plugged it back in. I just rechecked the tank and none of the corals are out/open, the algae was covering everything, and the tank looked bad. I am not sure how long the heater had been unplugged, and how many times the temp had fluctuated and gotten lower! I am pretty sure I lost pretty much everything, including our huge green pipe organ. I am so upset!! Drew is going to be furious with me! Looks like we'll be starting from scratch with our new tank, except fish. grr! (flame) Moral of the story; CHECK YOUR TANK EVERY DAY!! (sad)(sad)(sad) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TRENT Posted November 21, 2011 Share Posted November 21, 2011 That sucks, but your Husband/boyfriend should understand. **** happens it wasn't a negligent act. Maybe everything will come back. You never know some of these things are pretty tuff. Good luck! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frlejo Posted November 21, 2011 Share Posted November 21, 2011 i don't run a heater half the year, tank stays around 72, everything does fine. wait before you start tossing stuff. not like conditions are perfect in the real ocean Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KMiller Posted November 21, 2011 Author Share Posted November 21, 2011 I don't run a heater in the summer, but it's been in the 20's-30's here at night, and the heater has been off for approx 5 days, fluctuating each day. It's really cold in the Garage. We'll see, I can only hope! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
impur Posted November 21, 2011 Share Posted November 21, 2011 Even a little flesh can turn into a new colony so wait it out. But dang that sucks, how did it get unplugged? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KMiller Posted November 21, 2011 Author Share Posted November 21, 2011 I'm not 100% sure? Maybe when Drew was getting water from the RO on tuesday he bumped it from the wall (where it's plugged in)? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raamiah Posted November 22, 2011 Share Posted November 22, 2011 Sorry to hear that! When I had my tank set up I was given a piece of frogspawn that the owner had broken off on accident only to find it week later in his fuge. He saw that I was looking for some coral and told me it was no guarantee but it still appeared alive. I gave it a nice spot in my tank and the guy tripled in size before I had to tear down my tank for my move up to Washington. What I am trying to say is that coral may be very sensitive but they also seem to be very resilient at the same time. I would keep a very close eye on all your params and just wait and pray. You may see them pull through. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
reef165 Posted November 22, 2011 Share Posted November 22, 2011 Ya, don't give up on the corals!! I had a heater go out in my garage a week ago on the frag tanks and the temp was at 58 deg during the day, and at night who knows, I got a heater back in it yestarday and the corals are almost back to normal, the sps still haven't polyped out but I think they will! Corals are much more tolarent of temp swings than the fish. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eugenereef Posted November 22, 2011 Share Posted November 22, 2011 These corals are pretty hardy. It has happend to me too where my heater was dead and the tank was running around 65F for a few days. Until My wife touched it and said it was a lot cooler than the other tank. So we put the heater on and let it run for a few days. The corals came back after about a month or so. By the way this was my Nano (you have seen it). For bigger tank I usually put two heaters just in case if one goes out the other runs in overdrive and while doing monthly/weekly maintaince, you will find out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pledosophy Posted November 22, 2011 Share Posted November 22, 2011 60's isn't to bad, they will likely be O.K. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
badguitarist Posted November 23, 2011 Share Posted November 23, 2011 A decent sized water change and some fresh carbon along with making sure your protein skimmer (if you have one) is working properly would go a long way to increase the chances of these corals coming back Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coralreefer Posted November 23, 2011 Share Posted November 23, 2011 Your only hope is to blame Drew... DrMerle Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
impur Posted November 23, 2011 Share Posted November 23, 2011 How are things looking today? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike nickerson Posted November 28, 2011 Share Posted November 28, 2011 Yeah they should make it. When my upgraded her tank she forgot a couple corals in a bucket and put ir out side for two days and mind you it was raining. And there was no lid on the bucket and I noticed them and slowly acclimated them and they made it just fine Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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