Felix T Cat
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Went without power for about 36 hours while I was away from home and lost quite a bit. Unfortunately there was nobody with a key in the area to open the house and fire up the generator. One of the few positives was that I put a GFO / carbon reactor online last weekend so as soon as power came back on the carbon started cleaning the water.
Total loses included 10 fish from my main tank and one damsel from the front cube. Birdnests in both tanks are completely gone and I think I will wind up losing my dendros and neon sinulara / most of my trumpet corals. Ammonia levels are ugly and I'm already on my second water change for the day trying to bring them back down. In my main tank (135g) the only fish to survive was my hippo tang (and I have NO idea how he made it).
Lesson learned, if you travel for work make sure someone local has a key to open your house in the event of a long term power outage..........
Total loses included 10 fish from my main tank and one damsel from the front cube. Birdnests in both tanks are completely gone and I think I will wind up losing my dendros and neon sinulara / most of my trumpet corals. Ammonia levels are ugly and I'm already on my second water change for the day trying to bring them back down. In my main tank (135g) the only fish to survive was my hippo tang (and I have NO idea how he made it).
Lesson learned, if you travel for work make sure someone local has a key to open your house in the event of a long term power outage..........