HELP recovering from power outage

[njudson]

Well this morning I woke up to a knock on the door telling me the buidling was being cleared and I had 5 minutes to pack some stuff and get out. The other half of my building had a fire and thankful everyone is ok and nothing happened on my side of the building. Power was out from roughly 8:30am to 4pm. Just got home and turned everything on including the battery powered airator I just returned with. My reef is down to nearly 60 degrees and it looks like everything is alive but mostly not so happy looking.

My question is what should I do and look for as I bring the heat back up to the normal 78?

Is loss of oxygen a problem with this length of time? Should I leave the battery bubbler running a while even though all the pumps are on now?

Thanks for your help. I'm optimistic things will be ok.

 

[saltymight]

For the heat, Float some hot water in zip log bags. As for the air just keep it going for a bit to help stablize everything. I would check and make sure nothing is out of wack like ph.

 

[windowlicker916]

you can rent/buy a generator maybe?

Good luck man, tough situation

 

[Palting]

8 hours with no power. Wow. I think whatever made it through will continue to make it. The worst is probably over, and your tank should slowly get back to normal. I think you got lucky. :thumbsup:

 

[njudson]

Update:

I got back in for a few hours with the power on. As the temp rose to back up to normal things seemed to perk up. I was even able to feed the fish. Then my super decided to turn the power back off at 10pm. I shut all the windows and left the battery powered air stone running. Hopefully I will be able to get back in during the day today.

 

[saltymight]

Might be a little late, but future reference you can use a blanket to cover around the tank to help keep heat in. Just don't let it get in the water or you will create a great syphin for water to seep out. I remember one guy on here threw a sock in his room and it got on the tank and a bunch of water came out