its amazing how resilent corals can be

[twoclowns]

Last Thursday the 5th, I lost power at both of my tank locations. One in Barrington and one in Rochester NH. The power went off around 1am in Rochester and 2am in Barrington, when I woke up the power was still off, I checked the temperature of the Barrington tank 72 gallon bow reef, it was at 73F, I search for my battery backup it was dead, no water psi because it is a well there, not really much I could do with that tank, so disappointed I walk away from that one chalking it up to an entire loss. I get to my 125g reef with 30g refugium. Its at 71.2F, luckily my parents have a gas stove, start heating water up to heat the tank. Filled plastic bags with smoking hot water 165F then double bagged them into the tank, and then used my magnet glass cleaner to circulated the water. I continue doing this for the next 7 hours, when my brother calls my cell and says that the power company said it doesn't think there will be power for days, so now the tank is at 75.6F, I leave to go to HD to get a generator, I get the last one they have 3250w, brigs and stratain Coleman. Get home fined it and get the tank up powered, watch it for a few minutes, then head back to the 72g to get all the corals and hopeful the fish and my zebra moray eel. Get there the tanks at 67, but everything is still alive. I bag up everything I can, could only catch my six line wrasse with a glass cup the rest are hiding. Was thinking about having the eel try to bit me so I could pull him out . So I walk away sad that I couldn't do more with that tank and the thought of losing my eel. By the time I get half way to Rochester my mother calls me and tells me the power came back on. I get there and my roommate calls me and the power is back at the 72 too. I float the bags of corals and one fish to try to get some heat in them while I wait one hour to make sure the power is ok. I take all the corals and fish from the 72g back, and put them back in the 72g. After being completely dead, I go to bed thinking that I'll get a call that the power is back off on my 125g, but its fine all night. What absolutely is amazing is that I didn't lose a single fish and only had to deal with a small protozoa out break with my montiporas, which is almost completely under control. Even the zebra moray survived this ordeal. Shrimp seemed the most effected but all survived.

[saltwaterfarm]

Glad you made it through with no losses! It is amazing how tough these creatures can be.

[sasquatch]

Hardship Karma for you! in a week or so let me know if you have pods, mine were the only casualty during our big storm, all the best. Steve

[jhnrb]

Quite a story. Had to have a drink to finish reading your post. glad you came through as well as you did.

[lcstorc]

Great story. Glad everything is ok. At least now you have the generator for next time.

[twoclowns]

still have pods and only lost a blood cleaner shrimp. But I did notice that I have red bugs on my acros so I ordered interceptor and will trat it today.

[vdituri]

Yowsers!
That sounds like some epic reefing.

[Dentoid]

Wow that is an extraordinary story! Glad to hear that you got through it with minimal loss. These things make us stronger and wiser reefers! Karma to you my friend!

[DaBird]

Way to go!!! Thats commentment to a Reef...Karma...(and a little luck..)

[twoclowns]

thanks, the tanks in really great shape considering what happened to it, and the red bug treatment works great. don't see any red bugs and the clown goby does eat the red bugs, watched him eat them as they were slimed off the acros. Use to think that he was eating polpys but after reading a thread hes just doing his part to keep them clean.