What is the longest ....

[Bella127]

you left an animal in a bag to acclimate in your tank. I once had a bangaii acclimate in my sump over night that I totally forgot about . I felt so bad but he still is alive and had him over 8 months now.

[ReeferRob]

Way to go Pete, geesh. What kinda husbandry are you practicing over there?
LOL, worst thing I've done is leave a nudi infected monti in a Revive dip over night. Nudis died, monti lived!!

[demonclownfish]

4 hours :angelsad::duh:

[kozyreef]

i left my bangaii also over night two of them i fell asleep/

[ReeferRob]

Last night I was moving a few pieces around and took a red planet frag down to the basement grow out about 7:00. About midnight little after I rocket out of bed remembering that I never actually put it in the tank. I ran down stars and tossed it in the tank.
Today I get home from work and its perfectly fine after sitting out in the air for well over 5 hours. Few.

[adalius]

2 days, for a starfish. Monitored the entire time, longest period without checking on him was 4 hours, in the middle of my sleeping. Lived 3 years in my tank before I sold him, never had any part of him disintegrate.

[XSiVE]

The closest Ive come to extended exposure to non-aquarium habbitat was I accidentally left a tricolor acro in a coralRX dip for 5 or so hours... it was pretty bleached when I got home and realized what I had done but the polyps were still happy and the coral overall survived.

[jolson10450]

well a few months ago i switched tank stands. broke a piece of birdsnest off and just set it on my bucket lid because i was super busy trying to get stuff done. i was going to glue it to a plug and be done with it. completely forgot about it and it sat out in the air for about 6 hours. put it back in the tank and there has not been one ill effect from it.

[ReeferRob]

It's amazing how resilient these corals can be and on the other hand how fragile too.