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rkh

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Earlier this year I set up a 12G Aquapod in my wife's office - she's an accountant and both she and her clients need something to look at other than numbers and computer screens. Well, we moved into a larger, much nicer space over Thanksgiving and planned to move the aquarium last over the following weekend. Our former landlord, who is also a minority partner in the firm, said no problem to it staying there until we got it moved. I checked on it Friday, everything was great. I go over Sunday to move it and that _______ landlord had turned the power off to the building. The water temp was 42 degrees. Both fish, and every coral was dead. When questioned, he callously (and vengefully) stated that he agreed to let the items stay, but not to keep the power on (not his problem). Personal opinion, he should have at least let us know when the power was to be cut off so that we could ensure the aquarium was moved by then (and the fridge was cleaned out )

Soooo... quick question, what are the chances that the LR is still in good shape (bacteria likely to recover, coralline algae is viable, etc. Anyone have experience with nearly freezing a marine aquarium solid before ???

p.s. It's up and running in my wife's new office (has been for over a week). I removed all obviously dead stuff. It had a full water change and still need to test the water conditions. The only thing moving now is the water ....
 
Ouch - that hurts.

I doubt the rock has much living in it, and even if it does, it's probably outweighed by the amount of dead stuff in it, so I wouldn't count on it having any positive biological capacity right now.

Having said that, it's live rock and will work fine in the new setup. You'll just need to let things cycle over again. Let the die-off from the existing rock supply the nitrogen for the cycle, and then just let it do it's thing.

Sorry for your loss- that's a pretty crappy way to lose a tank...
 
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