I Came Back From Vaca And My Tank Was A Wreck.

[Jeremyan7]

So I went away for 5 days and had a friend "look after / feed" my tank. I got back and it looked pretty terrible. The Shrimp (cleaner) had died (looks like maybe got eaten by the 3 fish).
The torches all looked terrible (closed) except 1 of the green torches totally lost it's head. Which is now floating around the bottom loose, but looks "alive".

glass was covered in green dot algae..

SO I have cleaned everything up. looks "mostly normal". Tested water and all looks in line.. Did a water change..

Question: is there anyway to glue / attach the torch head (there is no HARD material, just flesh) to its original skeleton or anything else?

 

[Salty Cracker]

Use a tiny/thin rubberband maybe, I know guys used to use them for attaching mushrooms, I can't imagine torches are any more sensitive than they are (but could be wrong)

 

[TORX]

It is called polyp bailout. Some people have had success with simply glueing it down and low flow to allow it to heal. This can take months. Good luck

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[Quartapound]

I remember reading somewhere that one of the best ways to make sure inexperienced tank sitters don't mess things up is to completely hide all your fish food. get one of those 7 day pill organizers and put the food portions for each day in that. You can even do this with frozen food, and just stick it in the freezer.

 

[Jeremyan7]

good advice...

 

[Steve Peters]

I have tried unsuccessfully to save a polyp after it bailed on a few corals with no success but good luck.

 

[Tiredguy]

I feel for you, every time I go away Something bad happens to my tank,,, Good luck