Well i have taken a HUGE hit. My power has been out since late Saturday night/early Sunday mourning. I could just cry, 1000 feet to the right of my house power, 1000 feet to the left on my house power, me...no power! I just wanted to let you guys now a cheap UPS backup power system it ran my iwaki 100 for about 26 hours, and a 1000w heater, however the heater was not on much. Anyway you can use a computer APS unit, they are VERY cheap on ebay, and then just hack into it, taking out the small battery they are equipped with, add a few feet of wire and some alligator clips and just use a deep cycle marine battery instead on the small battery. I have used this setup for years with great success, no inverter to worry about frying pumps and it works the instant the power goes off, and shuts off and charges the deep cycle battery the minute the power goes back on.
My 400 gal reef tank is taking a beating, i have a friend about 10 miles from me with a 90 gal reef that is watching some of my prize SPS,and LPS and other corals, but i have WAYYYYY toooo much for him to keep for me, and most of my corals are rather large colonies as my tank has been running for about 11 years...this really sucks!! I am going tomorrow and spend money i do not have to buy a generator for my house, i hope my tank makes it. I have been bucketing water from my sump to my display every 45min-hour just to keep some movement, and i have been running my battery air pump to try to help. I have pipe fish and sea horses in my fuge, i do not think they are going to make it, i already lost my black tang, my powder blue tang, orbital bat, moorish idol, 1 of my male horses, 4 of my clams (3 left) and a tons of LPS stuff. My pulsing xenia is not pulsing, my GSP are kind of brown, i have severla acan lords not doing well, some crazy colored zoos that are loosing color, and a ton of other stuff not looking to good...I HATE OHIO EDISON...they are saying FRIDAY at the EARLIEST, and MOST LIKELY SUNDAY to return power...I live in a small town (Doylestown) and they will restore power to the most customers first, we will be the last since there is only like 10 of us on this line that is out...I love my reef, but this is enough to make me wonder if it is worth it.
Sorry to complain, i just needed to vent, I hope everyone else is getting by. I mean my family is safe, so all is ok in the world, just my reeef is not happy, and that makes me not happy!
