EMERGENCY! Please help

[stanleo]

I bought a large clam the size of my hand today for 200 and drip acclimated it but I had to leave for two hours thinking that the driip would be fine for that long but the tube fell out of the bucket so when I got home the temp in the bucket was 73 degrees. What do I do? Can I risk just putting it in the tank or should I slowly add a cup of tank water at a time? I hope I didn't just kill it!

 

[stanleo]

OK it's not dead. I just saw a big reaction to my movements over the bucket.

 

[brandon429]

and I think that is an acceptable swing it wont die due to that in my opinion. try and get it over to the warmer tank with some partial acclimation over 15 mins or so/a few cups of water added from warm tank to a holding bucket or something.

73 is not bad

 

[stanleo]

and I think that is an acceptable swing it wont die due to that in my opinion. try and get it over to the warmer tank with some partial acclimation over 15 mins or so/a few cups of water added from warm tank to a holding bucket or something.

73 is not bad

Ok that makes me feel better, thank you.

 

[brandon429]

the assessment was based on this: i have always prided myself (first problem) on having a testless nano reef. the only params I know about my 15 year nano reef are its temp at water change time because i put a thermometer in the change water, and I know its salinity at water change time. the actual tank has a black marker dot for the water level, so as that drops I add freshwater up to the dot and that holds my salinity in place because there isn't any saltcreep, its solid.

well one day I noticed all my corals lightening which is strange, bulletproof pico reefs arent supposed to do that. so I waited and it got worse. in two weeks near total whiteout of my 15 year system I was freaked. I accused kessil of having bad lights (second problem lol i was bleaching, forgive) and I accused lfs of selling me bad mix water of poison.


then what really happened was my heater konked out and for about eight weeks straight the system had been at 65-68, only to be spiked to 78 during water changes, the only time I was taking temps.


so, I bought a new heater, a dang thermometer for my reef, dropped the light intensity and upped the feeding and water changes and rehabbed it all back. my mixed reef did two months at 65 u got this

 

[stanleo]

the assessment was based on this: i have always prided myself (first problem) on having a testless nano reef. the only params I know about my 15 year nano reef are its temp at water change time because i put a thermometer in the change water, and I know its salinity at water change time. the actual tank has a black marker dot for the water level, so as that drops I add freshwater up to the dot and that holds my salinity in place because there isn't any saltcreep, its solid.

well one day I noticed all my corals lightening which is strange, bulletproof pico reefs arent supposed to do that. so I waited and it got worse. in two weeks near total whiteout of my 15 year system I was freaked. I accused kessil of having bad lights (second problem lol i was bleaching, forgive) and I accused lfs of selling me bad mix water of poison.


then what really happened was my heater konked out and for about eight weeks straight the system had been at 65-68, only to be spiked to 78 during water changes, the only time I was taking temps.


so, I bought a new heater, a dang thermometer for my reef, dropped the light intensity and upped the feeding and water changes and rehabbed it all back. my mixed reef did two months at 65 u got this

Yeah ok that makes me feel A LOT better. Thank you so much. The whole thing was a tragic comedy of errors. I went to the fish store and lost track of time. By the time I got out of there and home, I had 30 minutes to acclimate 2 saltwater fish, the clam, and 20 neon tetras for my freshwater tank AND make a batch of salt water to replace what was going to be lost during drip acclimation for the clam before I had to pick my nephew up from school and take him 20 minutes to his hour long therapy session.

next time I go to the fishy store it will be on a day when I have NOTHING else to do!!

 

[stanleo]

Ok, he is in the tank. So far so good, thank you. I slowly added water but the temp only got up to 75 so I put him back in a bag with the water from his bucket and floated for 20 minutes to get it up to temp before putting him in the DT.