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sshm 
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 Topic: temp. spike killed everything
Posted: July 31 2007 at 10:40am |
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So you know that I took down my tank, but I did not sell my SPS corals as these were my favorites. I raised them from little stubs into some pretty good colonies, and I kept them in an office tank. Well, someone decided to heat the room in the summer, last weekend, perhaps on friday. When I came in on wednesday (took a long weekend off since tuesday was a holiday) the room was 100+, needless to say everything in the tank was dead except for one cerith snail, I lost all SPS, all turbo snails and all hermits. The tank itself was around 90F, and for maybe 5 days in a row. I think the snails died first and caused a big ammonia spike as well, I have never smelt anything more foul smelling.
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Adam Blundell
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Posted: July 31 2007 at 10:46am |
Another reef lost to "office warming"
When will people learn?
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Posted: July 31 2007 at 11:25am |
I'm willing to teach.
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Posted: July 31 2007 at 11:26am |
  I'm so sorry. And there were some very nice colored colonies that you raised from pups!
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Posted: July 31 2007 at 11:34am |
I'm sorry to hear that. Do you still have a tank at home?
Mike
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Posted: July 31 2007 at 11:35am |
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I feel your pain my friend... I am truly sorry.
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Posted: July 31 2007 at 11:40am |
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Thanks guys. I am restarting the tank with a couple of corals. One of my officemates is taking the skeletons and encasing them in epoxy to make paperweights.
Mark, yeah I had grand plans for some of those corals but I am more disappointed because it was from some one else's error that could have been avoided.
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Posted: August 01 2007 at 11:38pm |
Save that snail he is a survivor, give him his own tank, give him a medal... Seriously I would be ballistic that sucks.
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Posted: August 02 2007 at 12:33am |
sorry for your loss.... Jeff
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Yes Mikey...I still have fins!!!
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