NO WAY!!!! Live "Sandy" fish

[yesjenks]

Can't believe it! I have in AIO tank with filtration built in the back. Due to the storm I lost all my fish and a bunch of my coral.
This weekend I restocked with fish (pair of Clarkii clowns, mystery wrasse and a pair of firefish).
When my electricity went back on after almost a week my tank was at about 50 degrees. Post-storm when cleaning my tank I found all my dead fish except 1 but figured it had decomposed (it was a flame angel).
Tonight I was cleaning the back of my tank and saw some movement in the return pump chamber of my tank. I got a flash light to see what it was and its my flame angel!! :kiss: I can't believe it!!!

Ok, done ranting.

 

[sunny]

You better believe it. I was running generator for 8 days 24/7 for my DT. However, I forgot that I had a algae blenny and a green chromis in my QT. There was no light , heat, flow for 8 days in my QT.

2 days after power came back I started the QT cleanup process and wiola!

Both the fish were alive and well.

Some fish just surprise me.

Sunny

 

[Alfredo De La Fe]

Glad to hear of both successes and glad that your fish made it. While also curiously concerned at the fact that I have been online for so long that I know what QT and DT are without even giving it any thought.

Alfred

 

[TheSherm]

Thats pretty cool. Good news finally.

 

[MeanGreenEyes]

That is resilience if there ever was...congrats yesjenks and sunny! It's truly amazing when you hear of these little success stories....

 

[yesjenks]

Thanks guys!

 

[piranhapat]

I have 13 gallon frag tank. I keep a small yashia shrimp goby. Power with out for 66 hours. Had only one battery air pump so used that on main tank 90 gal. All SpS tank. I was so happy no lost to main tank. I didn't care about small tank after 48 hours. Figure it was gone getting to cold and no oxygen. Power came on I check to see and yashia was still alive and all the frag SpS were good.

 

[Gabe]

That's pretty cool, I love that feeling of finding some fish that was presumed dead.... Living and kicking.

 

[Awibrandy]

Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh soooooooooooooooooooooooooo happyyyyyyyyyyyyy to read of these little guys making it through!!!!!

 

[Alfredo De La Fe]

It is amazing where our fish end up. How did your flame angel make it over?

Yesterday I discovered where my missing bangai cardinal was, alas, not a happy ending... He found his way into my overflow, down the tubing and in my filter sock. I have NO IDEA how he "squeezed" his way into the bulkhead screen.

Alfred

 

[shmibly]

I also could not believe the way some of the creatures in my tank came back to life after the temp came back either. Sometimes we get lucky i guess lol

 

[shroomie]

Not a saltwater fish, but back when I was keeping freshwater, I removed a large piece of driftwood from a 110 gallon planted tank.. 2 days later I noticed a yoyo loach missing, checked the entire tank plus filters, nothing..checked the wood and there he was in a crevice that was still wet.