My power was out for about 9 hours and the temp got down to 72. The corals look pissed and my clown angler is groggy-acting, which I expect given the circumstances. The thing I'm worried about is I fed my dendros and acans a bunch of mysis and performed a subsequent water change last night. It appears the corals expelled all the mysis (my tank looks like somebody puked new england clam chowder in there). My question is, how much of a water change should I perform now? Would it be smart to do a 50% WC? I've got water mixing and I'm waiting for the tank and WC water to get back to normal temps.

Check your parameters...but i would do a 25-35% water change and see if it clears...do you have a skimmer running?

Thanks, Rubadakis...no, I'm not running a skimmer. Actual water volume is only 4 gallons so I'm gonna do 1 gallon WC and see what happens.

ok...sounds good....with such a small amount of water you have to be careful with your parameters...where you able to bring back up the temperature in the tank? Maybe performing smaller water changes until the "white cloud" is gone. I wouldn't feed the corals until things get back to normal. Good Luck!!!!!

The tank is normaly at 79.5, it's at 78.5 now and still increasing. The power just came on about 30 minutes ago. I'm off to test and do a WC.

good luck...i think you will be fine...

buy a generator i lost power last night to and had to go to get gas for it but i slept good

my next biggish purchase will be a honda generator. my power is always tripping over here in this old ass house. it scurrrs me

my p0ower went out for 8 DAYS once!!! didnt lose much besides my fish... actually even some of the fish made it

Everything is looking good now. Definetly going to look into getting a generator. Some meth-head trucker always takes out a utility pole around here (that's what happened last night...again). Plus we lose power every time we get a weak ass nor' easter through here. Stupid island and it's $h!tty infrastructure...

that sucks was well worth it