Hurricanes and Aquariums

Good luck, FPL said power should be restore by end of this week.... It is freaking hot here now for people with no ac.. we have 6 people die in nursing home because of no power.
 
I was without power for 3 days and managed to keep all livestock alive with only one $8.00 battery pump and 4 D batteries. Talk about luck. Good luck everyone and if anyone needs to house some fish or anything else let me know i now have power.
 
I got a small window ac for less than $ 100.00 that I can run on a generator to keep room cool for the fish and myself.
 
I ended up not having to use it, but here's what I did o prepare.

* Purchased an EverStart Marine Battery, Group Size 27 at Walmart ($80)
* Enclosed it in a Minn Kota Trolling Motor Power Center ($57) go keep it nice and neat, also gives me 2x 12v outlets to charge my phones, etc
* Connected a 1000w inverter I have

I figure this would allow me to keep my tank running during the times I cannot/or do not want to run my generator. My plan was to run a large air pump and connect my Gyre 130 to it as well to keep water circulating. I would run this at night or times when I don't run my generator, then use a float charger to recharge the marine battery a little when I ran my generator. I never lost power so I didn't get around to testing this, I guess I'm going to keep it for future emergencies.

Does anyone see any flaws with this approach?
 
rc4kinu said:
I got a small window ac for less than $ 100.00 that I can run on a generator to keep room cool for the fish and myself.
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This is quite genius! Fans help but damn is hot in Florida this time a year. I am definitely going to buy a generator now.

As far as what is enough, I think a lot depends on what you have in your tank. Light bioloads I think are less of a risk. A fully mature tank with lots of microfauna will require quite a bit more than a barebottom with a few fish. I think I mentioned this on another thread my main tank I was moving and aerating the water manually 1-3 times per hour and while I was doing that fish started gasping and dying. I have a 60 gallon barebottom with a few fish and a couple of frags and I didn't even look at it until after we got power back and everything was fine. Go figure!
 
I ran my tank with only a D.C. Power head and two battery air pumps.

My losses include only sps coral and I have only really lost one colony that I hated. Others have stn. I would imagine it's from alk drop more than anything else. Temps felt fine to the hand. We just got power yesterday. I have a 5k gen that was running from Monday through Thursday.

I did appear to have my a/c freeze up yesterday after power came on when I wasn't home. Light turned on and I think spiked temps and caused bleaching.


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rovster said:
This is quite genius! Fans help but damn is hot in Florida this time a year. I am definitely going to buy a generator now.



As far as what is enough, I think a lot depends on what you have in your tank. Light bioloads I think are less of a risk. A fully mature tank with lots of microfauna will require quite a bit more than a barebottom with a few fish. I think I mentioned this on another thread my main tank I was moving and aerating the water manually 1-3 times per hour and while I was doing that fish started gasping and dying. I have a 60 gallon barebottom with a few fish and a couple of frags and I didn't even look at it until after we got power back and everything was fine. Go figure!
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Yes I noticed something similar with my set up, I had all my fish in two qt set up no fish in my display at all, also it's bare bottom and the Sps did almost perfect with some that loss some color and a few that had some die off in a few branches, but overall perfect, however I lost most of the fish in the qt with the exception of two fish which are doing fine now.
I think that the fact that there where no fish and no sand must have helped, not 100% sure but possible


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Rogger Castells said:
Yes I noticed something similar with my set up, I had all my fish in two qt set up no fish in my display at all, also it's bare bottom and the Sps did almost perfect with some that loss some color and a few that had some die off in a few branches, but overall perfect, however I lost most of the fish in the qt with the exception of two fish which are doing fine now.
I think that the fact that there where no fish and no sand must have helped, not 100% sure but possible


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Absolutely. My main tank had sandbed, lots of rock, sponges, fans worms snails. Lots to die then it snowballs. By the end of the first night fish damge was done. Then the tank went totally cloudy and only cleared up yesterday. It seems my nems made it most of my montis which I didn't like and most "other corals" LPS, zoa, etc...Those acros though...
 
Yeah that sounds logical, plus most of the time fish and inverts will die under or behind the rock work which makes it difficult to spot until the effect is visual. I suppose this is not something preventable unless you can remove your fish out of the tank before the long term power outages, but it might be something inevitable


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Also saw in Facebook some breeders here in Florida lost $30k or more in dead loss, not feeling so bad, feel worse for them


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