Casualties during a weekend heat wave in SJ

HybridFish

HybridFish

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Hello all,

It's about 11pm and I just got home from a weekend in Stockton to find my water temperature hovering at 98 degrees and my skimmer overflowing. Needless to say just about everything has bleached and most of my livestock (fish and cleaning crew) are dead or dying. The only things left are some ricordia and some zoos. I have fans and the air conditioner cooling it off but the damage has been done. Looks like I'm gonna be starting from square one. Maybe I'll start up again when it cools off.
 
Yep it sucks, I lost a rusty angel, a cleaner shrimp, and a few nice corals over the weekend. :(
 
i just moved to the bay and thought that the weather would be much nicer in sj but this heat is just as bad as sac. i have a tank cycling but i'm afraid to put anything in there with this heat and my ac sucks.
 
Sorry to hear of your losses..... I'm afraid you two won't be the only ones. I hate to think of it! :(

I'm grateful I have a temperature controller on my lights and heater for both of my tanks. That has saved my butt several times. Even w/ the lights off though, w/o a chiller (just fans and no AC downstairs), it took 3 frozen quart bottles of water to keep the temperature holding at 84. The outside temp. was 109

Everyone w/ PG&E stock must be doing a happy dance :hammer:
 
:( sorry to hear that man :( ... We are all fighting this damn heat wave....
PG&E shutting down power to some area in SJ. I'm worry that they are going to shutdown my power now. Without power I'm going to lose everything in the tank too ... :(
 
I don't have anything in the tank on during the day exept for the external return pump and the skimmer pump. MH lights only turn on during the night time hours. I thought this would be enough to keep it cool but with temperatures inside the apartment. Unfortunately it was only a matter of time for the temperature of the water to catch up with the temperature of the apartment which was in excess of 100 degrees. I'm gonna attach some more powerfull fans in the aquarium housing in order to turn the aquarium into one big swamp cooler.
 
No AC in my house, got to over 100 degs. The tank hit 96 or so as well. A fan blowing on it and RO/DI ice chunks were too little too late as almost all my softies are dead and many SPS are now "live rock".
No lights for a day.
Today I'm letting only one light go on, with the fan on the same timer. Hood is up as well. I'd run the fan all day, but it had dropped to 78 overnight so I didn't want it to drop any lower before it shoots up.

:(

V
 
Sorry, I should change my profile, I'm in San Mateo!

Though my wife was in SF and she called home shocked...she was wearing shorts and NO JACKET!!! LOL!

I was at home trying to save corals and dying of heat stroke. I had to go to the mall for heat reliefe. I'm going to start budgetting for A/C...if not whole house, then at least a nice portable one.

V
 
seems like we're all going to be meeting in the fish stores in the near future. You know, a frag swap would be a REAL GOOD IDEA as soon as the weather cools off.
 
Yeah a wall mounted portable AC would be nice to help a room (just make sure there are sufficient doors on the room :)). Although don't plan on getting one now, when I was at target getting my car inverter I heard so many people asking for portable AC units (all sold out and this is near San Francisco!), most fans were sold out as well.

Just wait until fall or so when the seasonal items go away and they sell them on sale! :)
 
Check out Costco... I got mine at Costco for $500 something.. It's good enough to cool down 500-600 sf room... anything bigger than that it will have a hard time..
 
I lost a frag I bought from the store.
The frag didn't even make it home.
Water in the bag was HOT! as in HOT to the touch HOT!
 
Really sorry to hear about the losses :(

We changed our lighting scheduled to come on in the early morning and go off in the early afternoon, before the heat of the day hit. Even with that and a chiller we had to shift our center point of our temp controller to 82, since the chiller barely can keep it under 83.7 in the heat of the day these past couple of 113 degree days. We still lost a couple of smaller, new frags that we recently acquired.. one of them didn't even make it through the dip process :(

And of course PG&E dropped our power for 6 hours yesterday. That was an experience in stress management, to say the least.
 
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