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Old 12-12-2009, 01:34 AM
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Well, after taking my first day off in over a month & spending the night hanging out with my baby girl at my parents place, find out at 1pm this afternoon that the fuse on our fowlr tank had blown last night. My wife was at her parents watching over her mom who had an elevated blood pressure, so she stayed there over night.

The one night in months when both of us are not home all night & Murphy's law hits.

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My prized Powder Brown/Gold rim tang
Lemon Peel angel
Black clown
True Percula
Blue Throat female trigger

MIA:

2 Coral Beauty angels

My larger fish survived, but 5 (probably 7) fish succumbed to the cold. Temp this afternoon was less than 70F (didn't register on the stick on thermometer), as opposed to 76-78F normally.

Since we weren't sleeping at home, I didn't turn up the heat in the house & so unfortunately the powerless fowlr could not handle the cold night time temps.

Note to self. No more days off

Luckily, with a good day off hanging out with my baby girl allows me to be more calm about this setback than I would have been 24 hours ago.

Now that the temp is back up to 74 & rising, the fish are more active & not looking like death "warmed" over.

Merry Christmas everybody.

Anthony
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Old 12-12-2009, 01:39 AM
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So sorry to hear this Anthony. Hopefully, the remaining livestock is ok.
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Old 12-12-2009, 01:56 AM
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Sorry to hear about your losses Anthony. I too recently came home to a powerless tank-o-death.
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Old 12-12-2009, 02:11 AM
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Sorry to here about that Anthony

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Old 12-12-2009, 02:18 AM
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Oh no! so sorry to hear this.
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Old 12-12-2009, 02:27 AM
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damn that sucks!
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Old 12-12-2009, 02:39 AM
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Sorry to hear about your loss not much you could have done to prevent that one. Don't let it hold you back from getting out though.
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Old 12-12-2009, 03:19 AM
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That sucks, I hope the rest of the fish are ok.
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Old 12-12-2009, 03:24 AM
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Sorry to hear that Anthony
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Old 12-12-2009, 04:14 AM
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I'm so sorry Anthony. Good luck with the survivors.

This hobby can be so harsh sometimes.
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