How to Recover Damaged Corals

Kate Vellis · Feb 2, 2021

We had a heater disaster in our 90 gallon display tank. Stupid mistake - the temp probe on the new heater came out of the sump and was hanging out of the back, The thermostatically controlled heater was trying to bring the temp up from 74 degrees (room temp in our family room) and the external thermometer read 92 degrees when I realized that the water was unusually warm. It actually took a couple of days to realized that the probe was out of the water, so I turned the thermostat down to bring the water temperature down, and the external thermometer got down to about 72 degrees. Finally figured out the problem and got the temperature back to 78. The fish were not affected, but I am afraid that we will lose some corals. A St Thomas mushroom vanished, and the pulsing xenias that were already unhappy died. The toxic green stemmed duncan and these gargantuan palys seem to be hanging in, but the duncan doesn't open as well and the palys have lost a lot of their color. What is the best thing to do to help them recover?

DeniseAndy · Feb 2, 2021

Honestly, time will tell. I lost one of my 6g to a temp overheat. Only a few things survived. One being a pistol shrimp. Crazy thing. I think my clown made it too. I cannot think of any corals that survived however.
So sorry.

Hincapiej4 · Feb 2, 2021

Don't touch anything. Keep things stable and where they are supposed to be. That's it...time now.

brandon429 · Feb 2, 2021

you must immediately drop the lighting down to ramp up level. sustain for one week or more, increase tank feeding, increase tank water changes.

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Kate Vellis · Jul 3, 2021

Kate Vellis said:
We had a heater disaster in our 90 gallon display tank. Stupid mistake - the temp probe on the new heater came out of the sump and was hanging out of the back, The thermostatically controlled heater was trying to bring the temp up from 74 degrees (room temp in our family room) and the external thermometer read 92 degrees when I realized that the water was unusually warm. It actually took a couple of days to realized that the probe was out of the water, so I turned the thermostat down to bring the water temperature down, and the external thermometer got down to about 72 degrees. Finally figured out the problem and got the temperature back to 78. The fish were not affected, but I am afraid that we will lose some corals. A St Thomas mushroom vanished, and the pulsing xenias that were already unhappy died. The toxic green stemmed duncan and these gargantuan palys seem to be hanging in, but the duncan doesn't open as well and the palys have lost a lot of their color. What is the best thing to do to help them recover?