Joe LoPresti
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Aggghhhhh!!!!!:uhoh2::worried2:
Well here's my story, I woke up this morning, walked down to my living room and noticed my tank was completely cloudy and the skimmer was overflowing...
That's when I noticed the tank temp was 88.7 degrees!!! Needless to say I yanked the heater out of the pre-filter and it was hot... The heater is in the trash can now. I'm honestly not sure how long it was at that temp, but if had to guess, it was less than 8 hours, still not good...
Corals are closed up, heads shrunk in, generally not happy but everything still appears to be alive, barely. The four fish are still alive, but I'm not super-concerned about them.
The tank is a 60 gallon glass tank with a CPR hang-on-back skimmer. I have a Vortech MP-10, a Jager heater (which is no more) and an Eheim canister filter which has nothing except filter floss, Rowaphos and Chemipur in it. The tank inhabitants are mainly frogspawns, hammer corals, octospawns, a couple of acans. I also have one montipora, an Acropora and a lot of mushrooms and zoa's.
So anyways, I did a ten-gallon water change, cleaned the Eheim, cleaned the skimmer, cleaned the powerheads all before noon. All the lights are off except for the LED moonlights. I was able to lower the water temp to 80.9 degrees. As of 7:30 tonight the tank is still cloudy, the skimmer is still working OT, what else should I do??? Are my corals doomed??? I am beyond sad and the worst part is I'm stuck at work and can't do anything else until at least 10:30 tonight.
Does anyone have any advice on what else, if anything, I can do to help my corals survive??? If the tank fully crashes, this might spell the end of my reef tank...
Well here's my story, I woke up this morning, walked down to my living room and noticed my tank was completely cloudy and the skimmer was overflowing...
That's when I noticed the tank temp was 88.7 degrees!!! Needless to say I yanked the heater out of the pre-filter and it was hot... The heater is in the trash can now. I'm honestly not sure how long it was at that temp, but if had to guess, it was less than 8 hours, still not good...
Corals are closed up, heads shrunk in, generally not happy but everything still appears to be alive, barely. The four fish are still alive, but I'm not super-concerned about them.
The tank is a 60 gallon glass tank with a CPR hang-on-back skimmer. I have a Vortech MP-10, a Jager heater (which is no more) and an Eheim canister filter which has nothing except filter floss, Rowaphos and Chemipur in it. The tank inhabitants are mainly frogspawns, hammer corals, octospawns, a couple of acans. I also have one montipora, an Acropora and a lot of mushrooms and zoa's.
So anyways, I did a ten-gallon water change, cleaned the Eheim, cleaned the skimmer, cleaned the powerheads all before noon. All the lights are off except for the LED moonlights. I was able to lower the water temp to 80.9 degrees. As of 7:30 tonight the tank is still cloudy, the skimmer is still working OT, what else should I do??? Are my corals doomed??? I am beyond sad and the worst part is I'm stuck at work and can't do anything else until at least 10:30 tonight.
Does anyone have any advice on what else, if anything, I can do to help my corals survive??? If the tank fully crashes, this might spell the end of my reef tank...
