Hopefully things will get better....

[dblondfemme]

I have been without Air Conditioning for the last 2 weeks. Needless to say, my super small tanks did not fair well with the extreme temperature changes. *sighs* Many different types of shrimp perished in the disaster. I found I did have some cardinal survivors from my Alagefix stupid moment....to only lose them to an incompetant AC repair company. I have some sort of weird nosed shrimp which Rachel told me are tempermental....who have been feasting on the carcasses of simple fire reds. I lost CBS, CRS, Bamboo (one managed to hang in there throughout the temp changes), green, yellow, rilli, tiger, super tiger, *sighs*.

I am thinking I will let the temperature stay constant for a while, let the water parameters settle, and begin again...

In my 29, I do have a lime green who has been berried for 3.5 weeks and looks to have a swarm around her underside....

JUst had to share.
This has been a horrible time. A day or two without air is hard...but two weeks was horrible. THe reason it took two weeks???? The AC repair company couldn't seem to get the correct motor in stock. 4 times they came to the house with the wrong size. Two times the cancelled because the motor they ordered hadn't come in. Two times they cancelled because of weather and once was yesterday.... Do you happen to recall how beautiful it was yesterday? Once I find out the name of the company.... I will def NOT recommend them.

[eklikewhoa]

You could help with the temps by positioning a fan across the surface, that will drop temps fairly well through evaporation.

You would need to top off the tanks frequently though and would suggest using RO/DI or watermill distilled water.

[sunkenmetal]

No AC I couldn't do that.

[eklikewhoa]

I would have shot myself long before the shrimp died.

[sunkenmetal]

I would have gone back to Washington state and have the wife call me when it is fixed.

[eklikewhoa]

When the neighbor blew out the transfomer I went and bought a window unit and wired my car to run it.

[aquabee]

Oh man. I'm so sorry!! I hope the tanks all recover soon. :(

It's times like this that make me miss my home in California. The weather stays beautiful year round so your tanks seldom suffer due to weather issues.

[armthehomeless]

Hope everything gets fixed Reba.

[aquabee]

I'm all out of yellow shrimp, Reba, or I'd donate some of mine to re-establishing your tanks. I have only some juvies and a couple adults left in my nano.

[armthehomeless]

Once everything returns to normal, let me know whatcha need. I can bring them to the GHAC Auction.

[bikeguru]

Dang, Reba.
My shrimp went trough Ike and I used battery operated air pumps and a fan run on a large truck battery.
But still how hot got it in your house? Just thinking it's only April!
Just shoot me a pm when things are back to normal and I get you a nice colony CRS.

[fishman1]

Wow that sucks! Did it really get that hot? There were some diy chillers I saw on shrimpnow if you run a canister filter you can put it in a styrofoam cooler or normal cooler and the canister inside the cooler and ice around it. But like ek said a fan works. I believe they use the fans on reef tanks to prevent their overheating lights from heating the tank too much

[dblondfemme]

We had days where inside the house temps reached over 90....then at night we had evenings where it dropped into the 50's. If it had been a constant high or low I think I would have been okay... it was the quick changes which hurt them I believe. I have these beautiful fluval tanks which I love..but they are small...so temps go up and down quickly....
The AC is fixed now... so life inside the house should be balancing out. Thank you everyone for your words of encouragment, sympathy, and offerings :-)
I WILL be taking some of you up on them :-)
I think my bristlenose enjoyed all of this the most....the male is working really hard on corraling the females :-)

[Totenkampf]

i hate to hear of such a loss, good thing that there are plenty of good people here on the box who will offer to help you get going again!

[troy tucker]

Sorry to hear about this. its never easy to loss a friend.