SPS dominanted system temp drop to 68

[CoralWealth]

Also this is a 600g system so it’s gonna have to simply going up. The tank could’ve only been sold for Max a day. Well my fiancé and I went away for the weekend to just come home to seeing temp temperature dropped to68, it has been going up, now over 72 and should be 80 by the morning.

However do you think I will have long term affections to my SPS? They already look a lot better but nothing like they did before I left. Before I left they all had INSANE PE.

When I got home when the tank is 68 they didn’t look good at all. Some had 0 PE and I think they may good. Now I would say 90% have okay PE again. Anyone have this happen and what signs can I look for going forward on my corals.

 

[motortrendz]

What caused the temp drop?

 

[CoralWealth]

My temperature monitor that all the heaters are on somehow got unplugged.

 

[ZoWhat]

Question (not meant to banter you).... but with a 600g system, why dont you have an Apex controlling things?

600g is a LOT LOT LOT to lose. Spend the $$$ and get an Apex in play.

I bought into Apex 6 years ago....and like owning a Microwave for cooking....I couldn't imagine not having an Apex.

.

 

[CoralWealth]

Thank you, I thought about it. It’s a 180g display and 509g frag tank. I have other controllers for testing alkalinity and the temperature but right now I’m just worried about what bad signs should I look for and what do experience longer term.

 

[hyprc]

Colonies will probably have a harder time than frags. They will show visual signs of distress (retracted polyps, loss of coloration, worst case stn/rtn from base or tips). I'd say just try and keep everything consistent over the next couple of months and hope for the best.

 

[CoralWealth]

Good thing my tanks are mostly colonies at this point. Thanks everyone.

 

[roberthu526]

we recently lost power for 8 hours and my 300G dropped to 71F. I didn’t notice anything different. I have a lot of angels so I never see polyp extension anyway.

 

[CoralWealth]

I’ll be paying a close attention the next couple days.

 

[biecacka]

Don’t feel the need to run and buy an apex. They have heaters with built in controllers. A guy local to me who is an SPS guru and very well known as one across country, he doesn’t use an apex. He has a 600 gallon DT and probably 300-450 gallons in frag tanks.

im not saying don’t buy one, I run one, I’m just saying they are definitely a luxury as opposed to a necessity

corey

 

[Phildago]

Grab two wifi inkbirds. This way you can compare one to the other, control your temp while you're away, and if one get unplugged you still have atleast some level of protection. They're 50 bucks-a-peach

 

[LegendaryCG]

Love my inkbirds

 

[Gareth elliott]

My furnace was offline in October the 3 days that it happened to be below freezing.

Tank hit 65 on the third day (the house was 48, i was amazed the heaters did that much)

No corals were lost.

Sps are better at handling temperature fluctuations than a lot of other corals that are collected deeper. Most sps live in the surf zone and experience a marked day vs. night temperature.

 

[Gregg @ ADP]

A temp dip like that for only a couple of days probably won’t affect much. It’s when you get past a week (too cool or too warm) that you can expect to see some bleaching.

 

[CoralWealth]

Thanks a lot everyone. Makes me feel a lot better.

 

[Ben Pedersen]

My tank is regularly in the low 70s (72-69) during the winter without any issues. However, at around 68, I have noticed corals start showing stress. As long as the temp goes up within a day, they should all be fine.

 

[CoralWealth]

I think I remembered reading some people being fine with 74 average tank. I am just worried about potentially couldve been a pretty fast drop from where I keep the tank at 79.5 down to 68. The main system 500g is in the basement where in the PA we don't keep heating so I am sure it dropped fast and noone was at the house so we had the heat turned down throughout the house too.

It was back up to 77 when I looked this morning. Will test will be when I get home around lunch when the lights come on.

 

[DuckSlayer627]

I had my tank drop from 80 to 65 in about 12-14 hours due to a chiller malfunction. Almost all Acro's bleached and died. The few that did survive looked like dead skeletons on a shelf at a gift shop. It took about 2-3 months before they began to color back up. I would say if yours aren't bleached, they will be ok.

 

[CoralWealth]

I had my tank drop from 80 to 65 in about 12-14 hours due to a chiller malfunction. Almost all Acro's bleached and died. The few that did survive looked like dead skeletons on a shelf at a gift shop. It took about 2-3 months before they began to color back up. I would say if yours aren't bleached, they will be ok.

Sorry to hear about it.

Well I hope they dont look like that when I get home for lunch, find out in a couple hours.

 

[DuckSlayer627]

This is what I came home to in August 2018 after returning from a trip to Cozumel. Tank was 65 degrees. All fish lived but like I said most Acro's died.