The Texas winter storms left us for 3 days without power.
I call myself lucky. Next winter season I will have a power backup.
The water temperature in the tank dropped to 45 F.
The room temperature had dropped to a cozy 40 degrees.
I had wrapped the tank with several layers of blankets and put multiple towels on the top cover.
1 day after warmup I find the following:
4 clown fish, 2 cardinals, a watchman goby and a neon goby survived.
They moved a bit sluggish at first but after a few hours of warm water they ate and are back to their usual behavior.
My red fire shrimp looks like he went through a blender. His antennas are bend and he hasn’t left the spot I found him. But he’s moving.
Pistol shrimp is fine.
My long tentacle anemone moved from an open space to a deeper sand bed between rocks.
Tuxedo urchin and pencil urchin moving fine.
My serpent start fish is fine too. He had moved into one of my pistol shrimps deep caves.
Only to be kicked out by the pistol shrimp after the water warmed up.
All the trochus snails survived. Cerites are gone. Have not seen the nassarius yet
Looks like a few hermits are gone.
Most of the soft corals survived. First totally limp but now standing up.
Kenia tree, daisy polyp, gas, hammer head and toadstool seem to come back.
My finicky toadstool starts to show its tentacles. He gets upset with me every time I put my hand into the water then he retreats for several days.
Questions:
1- should I do a water change and infuse new bacteria? Or do the beneficial bacteria survive those temperatures?
2- should I wait and see if the Xenia comes back or take it out? See pic below.
3 - anything I should watch out for?
my Xenia seems a goner .....
I call myself lucky. Next winter season I will have a power backup.
The water temperature in the tank dropped to 45 F.
The room temperature had dropped to a cozy 40 degrees.
I had wrapped the tank with several layers of blankets and put multiple towels on the top cover.
1 day after warmup I find the following:
4 clown fish, 2 cardinals, a watchman goby and a neon goby survived.
They moved a bit sluggish at first but after a few hours of warm water they ate and are back to their usual behavior.
My red fire shrimp looks like he went through a blender. His antennas are bend and he hasn’t left the spot I found him. But he’s moving.
Pistol shrimp is fine.
My long tentacle anemone moved from an open space to a deeper sand bed between rocks.
Tuxedo urchin and pencil urchin moving fine.
My serpent start fish is fine too. He had moved into one of my pistol shrimps deep caves.
Only to be kicked out by the pistol shrimp after the water warmed up.
All the trochus snails survived. Cerites are gone. Have not seen the nassarius yet
Looks like a few hermits are gone.
Most of the soft corals survived. First totally limp but now standing up.
Kenia tree, daisy polyp, gas, hammer head and toadstool seem to come back.
My finicky toadstool starts to show its tentacles. He gets upset with me every time I put my hand into the water then he retreats for several days.
Questions:
1- should I do a water change and infuse new bacteria? Or do the beneficial bacteria survive those temperatures?
2- should I wait and see if the Xenia comes back or take it out? See pic below.
3 - anything I should watch out for?
my Xenia seems a goner .....