So I love zoanthids. they are so hardy and take abuse like no other and just rebound from it and look as good as ever now. If anybody else has crazy stories of corals rebounding from conditions that are less than ideal I would like to hear them.

So the background on why I love these guys. Well as some as you know I set up a fluval chi 5 gallon tank as a nano for while I am up at A&M at school. I had been slowly stocking it whenever I came home I would pick up a frag or two. Well over Thanksgiving break where I left Tuesday night and returned late Sunday evening my tank went unwatched.

I had filled it to the top with ato water to help ensure it wouldnt run dry or atleast too dry. I took my light off of manual (only on it because some nights I would stay up late studying and want too look at and others would want to go to bed and the light wouldnt let me) and set up my timer. Also made sure my room temperature was good so that my heater in the tank could keep it at a reasonable temp. (highest it got was about 74.5 maybe, I know a little on the cool side) I had asked one of my buddies to make sure it was filled up when he left on Wednesday night and that the lights were working.

When I got back on Sunday evening the tank light was out, and the zoas were shriveled up, the stalks were about 1/2 as wide as before and they were closed up.
I looked at my thermometer and it read 63.4. Apparently my roommate decided that for one day of the year that he preferred the room colder than I and turned the AC on full blast. Also my heater was unplugged, and my light was off. I think my buddy that made sure the lights were working pulled on the power strip and thats what caused the heater to unplug.

Regardless now as I type almost all of my zoas are fully open and looking healthy again. I find this amazing as my tank temp dropped over 10 degrees to the 60s and they were without light for probably 4 maybe 5 days.

I now have 2 heaters in there for redundancy and because one wasnt enough to bring the tank temp up to 78-80.