lps no lights for 5 days

ok so my buddy calls me at work last night and says he just got back from vacation and found out his lights have been off for 5 days and no longer work.
He wants to give up on the hobby for a bit now he has a few softies/lps, should I even attempt to put them in my tank to recover or are they too far gone? Will they poison anything in my tank etc...

 

Likely most, if not all will recover. Is there any way to let them recover a bit in his tank first though? The sudden shift in environment certainly won't help.

 

They will recover. I hint a few hints of cyano in my tank & went almost completely lights out for 3 days cyano almost completely gone & while my LPS showed a little shrinkage they were fine and looking better than before imo in 2 days.

 

ok thanks will try it and see what happens

 

Softies and LPS are pretty hardy, as long temp and other parameters were good, they should be fine.

 

I'm not particularly worried about them recovering. It is the changing tanks before they recover that may be an issue. That is a lot of stress all at once. I'd leave them in your friends tank for two weeks or so before transferring if possible.


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Very true I didnt think of that part & agree completely if at all possible.

 

i would tihnk they would all recover fine in afew days. think about it when they are in the ocean and a storm rolls around it can be dark for days at a time and they survive...

 

no problem, go get them.

 

My understanding is, it is't much darker when it is cloudy. Much of this is an illusion of sorts. Rather what happens is the color temperature of the spectrum shifts to around 20000K from 5500K-6500K on a sunny day, as the red is filtered by the clouds. Blue (i.e. 20000Kish) light passes
Through the water with ease, so, it isn't that much darker for the corals. A bit, but there is still plenty of photosynthesis occurring.

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