Immediate Help

[madamo]

I was transporting my tank home from college. Here is the issue...during a two hour drive, the temperature dropped from 82 degrees to 72 degrees. Is this a problem because everything looks small and shriveled. Did I lose my entire coral collection: ricordea, mushrooms, kenya tree, etc.


Please answer ASAP with any suggestions on how to reconcile the issue.

Thanks

[Douglas LEHMAN]

Hello
72, not bad, get em inside and slowly warm them up as you work on getting the aquarium settled.

[kawicivic]

yup... just treat it as an acclimation... hopefully everything pulls through

[medic29]

Should not be a problem at all; some folks are keeping their tank temps down to 76-78 normally. They are probably all upset from the move more than anything; plus, this is not an uncommon range of temp during transport.

[badazztealcobra]

Agreed, you should be fine, just bring them back up to temp slowly and they should pull through fine...

[Whaledriver]

I would do a slow drip acclimation. Over the course of a few hours get things to match. Turn off the lights till tomorrow.

[cp3823]

keep us posted on the outcome.

[madamo]

Everything appears to be okay up till now.