Temp Dropped to 70 from 78

[Fishfish0001]

So today it appears my heater got unplugged somehow, no sure exactly, but the tank temp dropped to 70 over the coarse of 12 or so hours from 78 degrees. I just plugged the heater back in, will there be any issues with this? My corals seemed a little unhappy, which was what alerted me to the issue, they were a bit closed, and things were a bit slower than usual.

I have:
1 Maroon Clown
1 Fire Shrimp
1 Tuxedo Urchin
1 BTA
Assorted crabs and snails and some corals

 

[snorvich]

Be sure the temperature comes up slowly, ideally over a couple of days. Otherwise, no issues.

 

[Porcupinepuffer]

You'll be fine. I had a similar situation to this happen. I noticed my pulsing xenia's were sort of shriveled up, but everything was fine when the temp started SLOWLY rising back up.

 

[aleonn]

I'd manually set the heater up 1-2 degrees each day. The livestock are otherwise looking good?

 

[Fishfish0001]

Everything looks fine. I just plugged the heater back in, which was probably a bad idea, but nothing bad has happened. Raised to 76 over about 10 hours which is almost the normal temp.

 

[ashtree68]

I've had that happen a few times, things get angry and such but other than that all was well. I did like you did and just plugged the heater straight back in.

 

[kingfisher62]

One winter I forgot to plug my heater back in after maintainance for a week. Water was 68 degrees when I realized it. Funny thing was all , week long i was noticing how great all my corals looked. They actually seemed to enjoy it!
Raised it slowly over a couple of days with no issues

 

[Brian94558]

I've had this happen a number of times, thanks to the wonderfully reliable stealth heaters! Everything has always turned out fine. livestock seem to handle lower temps just fine.