ThRoewer
New member
Thursday night the GFI in the garage tripped and my tanks were without power for about 20 hours.
By the time I got back home on Friday, the tanks were at barely 20 °C.
Most fish, coral, and inverts actually handled it pretty well even if the fish were a little dazed for a while. But 4 tanks with a lot of algae (which consume oxygen during dark periods) or a high bacterial load ran out of oxygen.
One of my 100-gallon tank's sump tanks had a lot of red algae and nearly everything in it died:
A pair of wideband gobies
One Latezonatus clownfish (captive-bred from Karen)
One ORA Yellow Assessor
One wild Randall's Assessor
A pair of Stenopus scutellatus
A pistol crab, a bunch of hermits, a couple of corals, and the anemones in that tank survived.
In another system with tons of algae, I lost one of my wild yellow assessors while the Yasha gobies, the clown gobies, and the other wild yellow assessor survived.
The most upsetting losses were in my quarantine tanks:
In one I lost a baby Philippine regal angel that was done with QT and scheduled to go into the anemone system that weekend.
In the other, I lost the Red Sea regal I wanted to pair with my Maldives regal.
The only tank that was entirely unaffected was the one with my blue-spot jawfish. Those guys seemed not the slightest bit bothered by this.
By the time I got back home on Friday, the tanks were at barely 20 °C.
Most fish, coral, and inverts actually handled it pretty well even if the fish were a little dazed for a while. But 4 tanks with a lot of algae (which consume oxygen during dark periods) or a high bacterial load ran out of oxygen.
One of my 100-gallon tank's sump tanks had a lot of red algae and nearly everything in it died:
A pair of wideband gobies
One Latezonatus clownfish (captive-bred from Karen)
One ORA Yellow Assessor
One wild Randall's Assessor
A pair of Stenopus scutellatus
A pistol crab, a bunch of hermits, a couple of corals, and the anemones in that tank survived.
In another system with tons of algae, I lost one of my wild yellow assessors while the Yasha gobies, the clown gobies, and the other wild yellow assessor survived.
The most upsetting losses were in my quarantine tanks:
In one I lost a baby Philippine regal angel that was done with QT and scheduled to go into the anemone system that weekend.
In the other, I lost the Red Sea regal I wanted to pair with my Maldives regal.
The only tank that was entirely unaffected was the one with my blue-spot jawfish. Those guys seemed not the slightest bit bothered by this.
