No vacation is too short :(

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5 day vacation...no problem I thought. Tank was cleaned the day I left, topped-off, auto-feeder, etc. The apartment thermostat was set high so the a/c wouldn't kick on while I was gone. Well, the building switched the heat on during those 5 days. I returned to a sauna!

The tank water was so low it didn't even make it into the overflow. So, an 84 degree tank mixed with no flow other than a koralia = heartbreak, death and algae.

Lost livestock: CB Bengai Cardnial, coral banded shrimp, skunk cleaner shrimp, snails, crabs.

CORAL: 4" teal/pink chalice, favias, 2 heads of frogspawn, small toadstool mushroom, 1 SPS, green star polyps, feather dusters, red and skittles acans (recessed but hopefully will grow back), pulsing xenias (probably grow back well), bleached green monitpora, few zoas, shriveled ricordea.

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-Jeff
 
aw man that sucks sorry to hear about your losses. I'd try and do a 20% water change and run some carbon so that you can try and save what you have left.
 
Man sorry buddy.. :(
 
Sorry about that!

Thats why it is good to have a phone you can watch all your stuff from while you are away!Love mine!
 

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