Zestay
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so needless to say i got caught with my pants down ( literally ).. try to turn the fan on and it wont turn on.. oh no! my first thought. oh the powers out.. my second thought FISH TANK OMG!!! i run down stairs to see a still tank all my corals closed up . this was in a matter of minutes after power failure.
so these are the steps i took
1. dont be concered if the power comes on in like 2 minutes.. after 10 minutes... move to step 2
2. panic! did lots of that
3. stir tank with piece of PVC while blowing bubbles in it... did that too..
4.run around like chicken with headcut off trying to find a battery operated pump , air stone. anything to create some water movement and get some o2 into my water
i run to my LFS ( street lights are out long drive ) to buy one.. they got one.. 40 bux wth i only got 22 dollars.. 411 pet supermarket got one for 11 dollars so needless to say drive across town again
2 hours after powerfailure i manage to put a battery operated air stone and 3 minutes after that, the power comes back on. my pumps start churning and everythings happy.
long story short. i wont let this happen again. going to rig a UPS to a deep cycle marine battery to power my return pump + CF lighting.
anyone else effected by this situation today?
so these are the steps i took
1. dont be concered if the power comes on in like 2 minutes.. after 10 minutes... move to step 2
2. panic! did lots of that
3. stir tank with piece of PVC while blowing bubbles in it... did that too..
4.run around like chicken with headcut off trying to find a battery operated pump , air stone. anything to create some water movement and get some o2 into my water
i run to my LFS ( street lights are out long drive ) to buy one.. they got one.. 40 bux wth i only got 22 dollars.. 411 pet supermarket got one for 11 dollars so needless to say drive across town again
2 hours after powerfailure i manage to put a battery operated air stone and 3 minutes after that, the power comes back on. my pumps start churning and everythings happy.
long story short. i wont let this happen again. going to rig a UPS to a deep cycle marine battery to power my return pump + CF lighting.
anyone else effected by this situation today?