As most of you are probably aware of we in the DC area were pounded with almost 3 feet of snow in the last few days and I cut short a business trip to get home friday right before the snow started. A week earlier I ordered a bunch of dry goods from Live Aquaria and included a couple of those battery operated air pumps just for such an emergency. When I got home I had 2 big boxes and opened them up and found part of the order (including the pumps) were coming in another box. Fast forward to Friday night at 1 am and the power goes out. I thought, no big deal its happened before and will be on soon and all will be ok. No such luck. By morning it was cold and I start to panic. I have a 200 gallon fish only with a large African horned Moray, a tusk, a clown trigger,a Niger,a hippo,a purple tang, a naso, a sailfin,a lion, a cow fish,a tassled file fish, a foxface,my favorite guinnea fowl puffer and 2 domino damsels that I used to cycle the tank years ago. All fish were perfect condition and most were years old.
In addition to this I have a red sea max reef in my home office. It just killed me watching them start to breath heavy and I constantly took out water and dumped it back in trying to get some air in both tanks and when I went to bed Sat night I woke up every couple hours doing this as well. Before I went to bed the temps were around 65. Through the night when the first fish died my heart sunk but by morning the only thing still alive in the big tank was the eel and the foxface on its side heavy breathing. The temp is now 60. In my office some of the mushrooms and little corals may survive but everything except one clown and my little snowflake are gone. Our power came on around 3:30 today (sunday) and tanks are slowly starting to warm up. If anyone out there has debated about getting a generator I would say please get one so you never have to experience something like this. This has truly been a terrible day. I hope no one else here had the same problems, I know thousands were without power here.
Jeff
In addition to this I have a red sea max reef in my home office. It just killed me watching them start to breath heavy and I constantly took out water and dumped it back in trying to get some air in both tanks and when I went to bed Sat night I woke up every couple hours doing this as well. Before I went to bed the temps were around 65. Through the night when the first fish died my heart sunk but by morning the only thing still alive in the big tank was the eel and the foxface on its side heavy breathing. The temp is now 60. In my office some of the mushrooms and little corals may survive but everything except one clown and my little snowflake are gone. Our power came on around 3:30 today (sunday) and tanks are slowly starting to warm up. If anyone out there has debated about getting a generator I would say please get one so you never have to experience something like this. This has truly been a terrible day. I hope no one else here had the same problems, I know thousands were without power here.
Jeff
