Disaster! :angry: Is This Bad?..help!

[Kipperhips]

Iwent out today and came home to find the electric had been out
from 4pm until now yes!!

over 5 hours ....omg!!
because i wasnt at home when this power cut happend ..yes and the whole area was out ..
i couldnt try to keep the temps up etc...
so!!
what can this spell for my reef??
my temps dropped from 26 to 25 ...
my live stock are alive but maybe stressed ...dam!!

Dam i h8 this..
Kip

 

[Truck]

wrap the tank in a duvet but keep the water moving with a battery powered air pump if you have one.

 

[mutantbigman2000]

float a bottle of hot water in the tank.

 

[Kipperhips]

OK ty guys!!

electricity back on!! tank heating!! yes i put warm water into bottles and floated em ..
all pumps and power heads skimmer etc bak ...
all livestock moving around but one shrimp seems a little shy so could be stressed.. i dunno yet
i coulda coped if i had known, but alas .. i was out and the house was empty..

ty all for helping

Kip

 

[Kipperhips]

OH !! should i go ahead with my water change
tomorrow or should i leave it a day extra to keep stress to a minimum?

Kip

 

[seffieuk]

I doubt a drop of one degree will make much of a difference - the lack of water movement may, but I would just go ahead as normal

Seffie x

 

[Colin_T]

If the temperature only drops a degree or two then you should just leave it be, and not try to warm it up quickly with water bottles. A slight temperature fluctuation doesn't affect the fish, corals or inverts and going from 26 to 25C is nothing.

Keep the feeding down for the next couple of weeks and monitor the ammonia and nitrite levels. If you minimise the food input there shouldn't be any rise in these levels. However, if you feed the tank heavily you might get an ammonia spike/ reading.

Increase aeration/ surface turbulence. The more oxygen in the water the faster everything will recover, including the filter bacteria if that suffered during the power failure.

 

[scott133]

HI

KIP your lucky i was a way on holiday and i asked my next door neighbour to watch my fish for me and do a waterchange as he keeps tropical fish and he gose and dose the water change and spills water on the electrics and i only had the one saltwater tank then and he came in to feed them every 3 days and all my fish had died

 

[Kipperhips]

Hi folks and thanks fer the advice and help!

well things seem normal atm i left the change until sunday
so i will observe and test etc...
my mushrooms and others look fine all inverts are living
watch this space

Kip