Housemate helpfully turned off the heat while we were travelling for a few days...

plz pray for skrimps. They are definitely at least hiding; fingers crossed that they are /just/ hiding. There are none visibly dead but the lava rock is dense so there may be some.

Bringing the house back up to temp now with a pinprick of spirulina in case there are weak ones.

Bleh. Sad, even if all are healthy at least for unkindness.

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u/darth1211 6d ago

Don't worry. Opae ula can survive in low temps

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u/CharlesStross 6d ago edited 6d ago

As I am gratefully learning! Temps creeping into low 60s in the tanks now and there are signs of life, whew. Still feel bad.

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u/darth1211 6d ago

That's good. Every night, my tank gets into the low 50s

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u/kurotech 6d ago

They really are hardy little dudes aren't they

u/GotSnails 6d ago

I’ve had a tank get as low as 40 degrees

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u/CharlesStross 6d ago

Oh wow; amazing something so tropically acclimated takes it so well!

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u/GotSnails 6d ago

Well they were all laying on their sides & I have no idea how long the heater was out.

u/Proof_Attention8770 6d ago

If you keep neo’s they will be fine! I e kept me outdoors year round water down in the 40’s… they slow down but never had a problem…

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u/Proof_Attention8770 6d ago

Ignore me I didn’t see what sun before replying thought it was shrimpkeeping sub that’s mostly freshwater….

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u/CharlesStross 6d ago

No worries; we're a tiny sub and you're not the first haha.