Vacation - Temps will kill live rock correct? Will it regrow?

**guy121** · 06-21-2008, 07:25 PM

We're going on vacation for a week and the temps are going to be hitting 97F inside the room. Not much we can do about that and we don't really want to spend a lot of money on a chiller unit since it's just a small nanocube.

Right now we just have live rock inside the tank (I told her not to get it, but she insisted). The temps should kill whatever is on it. I read here that the stuff regrows? So how long before the live rock becomes "live" again? Will everything be ok?

**gm72** · 06-21-2008, 09:09 PM

97! Well I don't know SW but 97 I would think to kill everything.

**Halelorf** · 06-21-2008, 09:35 PM

Maybe try a few things to keep the room cool. Put aluminium foil on the windows to reflect sun light and keep the doors open so there is more air volume to heat up. I'm not sure if things will grow back if it gets that hot.

**cocoa_pleco** · 06-21-2008, 09:40 PM

in that heat, im sure there will be a lot of die off

**unleashed** · 06-21-2008, 09:48 PM

don't forge though that the water temp itself will be cooler than air temp of your room. I would leave the heaters (in-tank ones) off while your away. You will most likely have some die-off. The only negative impact of this is that it will extend your cycling period

**Kuli_Loach** · 06-22-2008, 01:34 AM

Place a fan blowing on the tank if at all possible.

**ILuvMyGoldBarb** · 06-22-2008, 01:54 AM

The tank water will be cooler than the air around it, but it is only a nano cube and the temp is 97, that water is going to get plenty warm, I'd say you are likely to have some die off but nothing too major, nothing the rock can't recover from.

**gm72** · 06-22-2008, 01:59 AM

I am glad to be reading the responses to this post. As I said before, I don't know SW but am always curious as to things like this. I would have thought that temperature for that duration would certainly kill everything off. Very happy to be wrong!

**guy121** · 06-22-2008, 03:28 AM

Well we currently have someone who is going to come and switch on the AC for 6-8 hours every night. It'll get 87+ in the room, but it'll drop back down to 76-77 once the AC is back on.

Glad to know that the rock would be able to live through something like that though. Especially as the temps during the afternoon will be pretty high.