reev
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Just thought to share my recent experience.
On Monday evening I started a major reascaping in my tank. I have a tank with LPS, SPS, a few Zoas & mushrooms. My goal was to better arrange the rocks in 2 sides, to separate the SPS from LPS and to get rid of some non-interesting Zoas (grayish,pale color) that took over most of the low rocks in one side.
Monday evening I took out those Zoa rocks and I placed them on a cardboard in the garage. Then I continued with my reascaping, made a huge sand cloud in the tank and I had to stop half way through.
Tuesday evening when I got back from work the water was cleared and I noticed that I don't find a small candy apple Zoas colony that I used to have. I starred around at the rocks that I moved & couldn't find the Zoas anywhere. Then, later on, at dinner time, I realized that they could be on one of the rocks I took out the night before. And for sure it was - right there in the garage, out in the cold, on the cardboard with the other rocks.
The rock was barely moist, but the Zoa polyps were still visible. I said to give it a try: I dumped the rock back into the tank. Pretty stupid
((, no acclimation, nothing. I just put the rock back in the water.
Wednesday eve when I got back from work again, Surprise! The candy apple zoas from that rock were alive & open! Today they're still doing fine!
So they survived out of the water, in the cold temperature of the garage for almost 24h. And they survived the temp shock from ~50F in the garage to 76F in my tank.
I'm curious how much they got affected, I guess it would take some time to tell if they slowly melt or recover & produce some offspring.
On Monday evening I started a major reascaping in my tank. I have a tank with LPS, SPS, a few Zoas & mushrooms. My goal was to better arrange the rocks in 2 sides, to separate the SPS from LPS and to get rid of some non-interesting Zoas (grayish,pale color) that took over most of the low rocks in one side.
Monday evening I took out those Zoa rocks and I placed them on a cardboard in the garage. Then I continued with my reascaping, made a huge sand cloud in the tank and I had to stop half way through.
Tuesday evening when I got back from work the water was cleared and I noticed that I don't find a small candy apple Zoas colony that I used to have. I starred around at the rocks that I moved & couldn't find the Zoas anywhere. Then, later on, at dinner time, I realized that they could be on one of the rocks I took out the night before. And for sure it was - right there in the garage, out in the cold, on the cardboard with the other rocks.
The rock was barely moist, but the Zoa polyps were still visible. I said to give it a try: I dumped the rock back into the tank. Pretty stupid
((, no acclimation, nothing. I just put the rock back in the water.Wednesday eve when I got back from work again, Surprise! The candy apple zoas from that rock were alive & open! Today they're still doing fine!
So they survived out of the water, in the cold temperature of the garage for almost 24h. And they survived the temp shock from ~50F in the garage to 76F in my tank.
I'm curious how much they got affected, I guess it would take some time to tell if they slowly melt or recover & produce some offspring.
