Tank Crash

[kennys]

Well, after 6 years of running a reef tank I had a blow out. My home AC went out while I was out of town. The water temp got up to 92 degrees and stay there for about 1.5 days. No I do not have a chiller

As soon as I found out I had some friends come over and start cpr by adding ro ice to the tank a bit at a time until I got home. It took about 12 hours to get the temp back down to 78 degrees.
Needless to say, most everything is shriveled up like a dried up leaf on a hot sunny day. My fish did survive but most everything else looks really really bad. I am not sure what to do right now.

Do I just leave everything alone and see what happens or do I need to do something different?

 

[whitey_028]

if you are back home I would just hang out and see what god gives you. Alot of coral has a huge will to live and i think youll be surpirised at what might make it...If you absolutely know for a fact its dead than i would take it out but stony corals may look dead but 6 months down the road have colonies under them.Good luck on this..

 

[alyssia]

Have you checked your water parameters?

 

[kennys]

I have been monitoring everything very closely now for several days. Water looks really good now. Temp is hanging out around 77 degrees. My wife called this afternoon and told me that our Feather duster colony is peaking out for the first time which I really hope is a good sign.
I am just really disappointed with this situation. I was supposed to have had someone coming over to watch over things and check on my house and none of the above happened

Oh well, easy come easy go.

 

[kokamo]

Kenny, I have some Frogspawn waiting on you so you can replenish your tank.

I hope it all works out for you man. I know you want to buy somthing, but I bet it should wait a while to put anything in there just yet.
There is a question........when can Kenny start to put new corals/mushrooms back into the tank?
Joe
BTW......hope those Feather dusters are thriving still!

 

[laddy]

He'd have to tell us what his nitrates are at (a good detection of die off) , water changes and all the other things he's done since coming back to his tank.