Don't go on holidays

rusty · #1 07-27-2006, 10:48 PM

Well I got back from holidays

I had fun, lots of sun! But.... I come back to see that the heat wave we had claimed almost all my coral!

I guess the house and the tank got too hot. No fish died but almost all SPS, all my LPS...Done!!! Very discouraging!!! not sure what I want to do now. Just thought I would throw this outthere to encourage people to buy chillers!!!!! I know if I continue I will.

mr_alberta · #2 07-27-2006, 10:50 PM

Dang man. Sorry to hear. Hit me up if you want some frags.

Cheers,
-Harvey

rusty · #3 07-27-2006, 10:58 PM

I will need to hit up alot of people!!!!

fishguyxd · #4 07-28-2006, 12:13 AM

Sorry to hear that ,I know how you feel I went in early july and the "same" thing happened to me ,my neigbour told me it was cooking in my place when he fed the fish, and I lost ever coral too except a mushroom.

Funky_Fish14 · #5 07-28-2006, 12:26 AM

Aww no

So sorry to hear Russ!

I hope this doesnt discourage you from sticking with the hobby!

Joe Reefer · #6 07-28-2006, 01:55 PM

Oh man that sucks! How did the basement stuff make out.

seashells · #7 07-31-2006, 03:10 PM

Sorry to hear bout your loss. We take our holidays in Novemer or February and head south. We have to worry about power outages.

Doug

jgoldsney · #8 08-03-2006, 06:01 PM

I found that running my lights from 11:30 to 5:30 AM was the only thing I could do to keep the heat in check....the tank is upstairs and it gets very hot during the day.Unfortunately I lost a ton of corals 2 large monti caps a large Frogspawn that I had split in to 3 mult headed colonys was decimated I am down to 2 colonys with 2 heads each, I lost a bubble coral as well. the softer corals...zoos, shrooms and zenia seem fine.

I have been debating on running a couple of lines down to the basment to my sump and run it through a bunch of coils and back up.....not sure if this would be effective though..

Snappy · #9 08-04-2006, 02:20 AM

Russ I feel your pain.