Pentagona
Snail Turd
I don't know if anyone else out there got wet like we did this weekend, but I'll tell you, for the circumstances my tanks went through the last few days, I really can't complain about the outcome.
Our home was one of the unfortunate ones to take on water this week, and while I did a bunch of preperation to try and prevent any loss of livestock, it probably wouldn't have mattered if I had done nothing at all. I went to the trouble of isolating sumps, placing power heads and heaters in tanks and getting my generator and cords near ceiling high, etc., etc. After leaving the house on Wednesday morning with everything working like a charm, the water level came up SOOO high that I was never able to get back to refuel the generator. Thus, without land power or generator everything shut down for about 36 hours.
When I was finally able to get to the house last night and get the generator fired back up, my tanks had hit a miserably cold 50 degrees and my pH had crashed into the high 6's-low 7's. Everything looked like it was gone for sure. I went ahead and did some water changes/buffering/etc. while the tanks gradually warmed back up and did some major babysitting through the night last night.
Low and behold by 8:00 this morning almost everything had bounced back. It looks like my only losses are some snails, one tuxedo urchin, one chromis, a large toadstool, and a colony of pulsing xenia (which doesn't really hurt my feelings). All of my more delicate fish/sps/lps/and softies have all returned to near normal appearance. Even my powder brown tang that is already stressed in QT getting ich treatments has returned to normal behavior. It's been a real testament to how much hardier a lot of our tank inhabitants are than we give them credit for.
Anyone else have any interesting stories about their tanks and this weeks weather?
Our home was one of the unfortunate ones to take on water this week, and while I did a bunch of preperation to try and prevent any loss of livestock, it probably wouldn't have mattered if I had done nothing at all. I went to the trouble of isolating sumps, placing power heads and heaters in tanks and getting my generator and cords near ceiling high, etc., etc. After leaving the house on Wednesday morning with everything working like a charm, the water level came up SOOO high that I was never able to get back to refuel the generator. Thus, without land power or generator everything shut down for about 36 hours.
When I was finally able to get to the house last night and get the generator fired back up, my tanks had hit a miserably cold 50 degrees and my pH had crashed into the high 6's-low 7's. Everything looked like it was gone for sure. I went ahead and did some water changes/buffering/etc. while the tanks gradually warmed back up and did some major babysitting through the night last night.
Low and behold by 8:00 this morning almost everything had bounced back. It looks like my only losses are some snails, one tuxedo urchin, one chromis, a large toadstool, and a colony of pulsing xenia (which doesn't really hurt my feelings). All of my more delicate fish/sps/lps/and softies have all returned to near normal appearance. Even my powder brown tang that is already stressed in QT getting ich treatments has returned to normal behavior. It's been a real testament to how much hardier a lot of our tank inhabitants are than we give them credit for.
Anyone else have any interesting stories about their tanks and this weeks weather?
Time to go shopping. 
