Not to be imitated.
But I moved a thermometer to another tank, because my reef is so stable, right?
The heater got unplugged. I had all sorts of mysterious problems with my tank---notably polyp bailout on lps, about 4-6 of them.
Fish: mostly gobies and blennies, mandy, dartfish.
Coralline was running riot. When I got in to scrape the glass, I noted the water temperature and ran and got the thermometer.
That tank was running at 72 degrees.
Corals were stressing a bit, as aforenoted, but had not retracted, just weren't expanding as much as usual.
The situation had probably been going about a month in that condition.
I reconnected the heater and brought up the temperature slowly to 80.
Corals immediately expanded and the tank is much happier. Fish are hungrier, but not remarkably so.
Just informational---what a tank can take and keep on ticking. A slow temperature decline is not a catastrophe in a fish/lps tank, even if carried on for several weeks, as long as your chemistry is good.
But I moved a thermometer to another tank, because my reef is so stable, right?
The heater got unplugged. I had all sorts of mysterious problems with my tank---notably polyp bailout on lps, about 4-6 of them.
Fish: mostly gobies and blennies, mandy, dartfish.
Coralline was running riot. When I got in to scrape the glass, I noted the water temperature and ran and got the thermometer.
That tank was running at 72 degrees.
Corals were stressing a bit, as aforenoted, but had not retracted, just weren't expanding as much as usual.
The situation had probably been going about a month in that condition.
I reconnected the heater and brought up the temperature slowly to 80.
Corals immediately expanded and the tank is much happier. Fish are hungrier, but not remarkably so.
Just informational---what a tank can take and keep on ticking. A slow temperature decline is not a catastrophe in a fish/lps tank, even if carried on for several weeks, as long as your chemistry is good.
