Power Outage Woes

[bethzb]

To add to the madness, as with many others, lost power for hours yesterday. Needless to say, I was at work and my husband didn't get home until 3:30 and there was still no power. Power returned by 4:30 when I finally got home but, according to my corals, it was out for quite a while. My main stock is recovering quite nicely but I only JUST received my new acan frags on Tuesday.

Any suggestions for how to get them over their second light, heat, and air deprivation in as many days or shall I just leave well enough alone and see if they recover on their own?

 

[prattreef]

Leave them be. Not much you can do at this point.

 

[KathyC]

As Randy said, I'd leave it all alone. Keep in mind corals are used to being in bags without much water motion for a period of time. The issue with power going out is much more about oxygenation.

Regarding heat - when a tank cools down - the last thing you want to do is bring it back up quickly, do it slowly!
The light is another thing they can do fine without for even 2 or 3 days at a time, some corals even more.

One of these woild ease your mind greatly as it comes on when the power goes out - automatically! So it gives you time to get back home and do what needs to be done

http://saltwatercritters.com/inc/sdetail/4291

Everybody should have one