Power is back online now but in the time it was off, my tanks ( 20 G with tetras and cories, 15 G with 4 Otos in Quarantine as new acquisitions, and a heavily planted 40 Breeder w/ Tetras and Amano Shrimp) dropped in temperature from usual 78ish down to low 60s, around 63 degrees.
Everything is back up and running now (had to rinse out canister filters prior to them coming online as the outage was 16 hours in duration) but I am wondering if I will see an Ich or other disease outbreak in the next 2-3 days as I have read can happen with stressful temperature fluctuations... Everything was alive and swimming (the otos were grazing on lettuce even that i didn't take out of the tank even though maybe i should have) this morning when the power came back on but I dont know how long they will last now.
Should I be treating the tanks with anything? My QT tank is already being used by 4 new otos so I will have to treat everyone in-situ which probably sucks for the planted+shrimp tank!
Additionally should I reset the QT period on the Otos or is 2 weeks from now long enough to say that this didn't cause any set backs and they can go into main tank, that will be 4 weeks of total quarantine...
thank you so much
for the record i did wrap tanks in blankets and float hot water bottles as much as i could but still had this drop
Everything is back up and running now (had to rinse out canister filters prior to them coming online as the outage was 16 hours in duration) but I am wondering if I will see an Ich or other disease outbreak in the next 2-3 days as I have read can happen with stressful temperature fluctuations... Everything was alive and swimming (the otos were grazing on lettuce even that i didn't take out of the tank even though maybe i should have) this morning when the power came back on but I dont know how long they will last now.
Should I be treating the tanks with anything? My QT tank is already being used by 4 new otos so I will have to treat everyone in-situ which probably sucks for the planted+shrimp tank!
Additionally should I reset the QT period on the Otos or is 2 weeks from now long enough to say that this didn't cause any set backs and they can go into main tank, that will be 4 weeks of total quarantine...
thank you so much
for the record i did wrap tanks in blankets and float hot water bottles as much as i could but still had this drop
