Powers Out!!! its not just our house either! AHHH! WHAT DO I DO!! hELP

[lilleahseafreak]

the power went out, i have a laptop so i have an hours battery charge on it.

the neighbors are out and so is the street light.

how long can my tanks last w/out power? (40 gallon acrylic, 23 gallon glass, 18 gallon glass, 8 gallon glass) and if the power is out longer than what is safe then does any one have a generator? (i live in carmichael) my dad does but he is at work and he works in the delta.

i don't know how long this will last. how long do generators run? if this is gonna be a long thing (we had no power for 3 days once before i had tanks when a drunk hit a pole) then is some one willing to hold onto my fish and corals for me?

i'm freaked!

i iwill come back to see if any one has replied as i need to turn this off to save the battery.

 

[lilleahseafreak]

beep! goes the microwave! powers back! i love how that thing beeps when it comes back on, helped alot when i kept blowing the fuze w/my 30+ lava lamps!

but what if it had gone out?

we should make some kind of powerouttage relief group....

 

[Sk8r]

At Walmart go to the fishing section [sports] and get a bait bucket battery-powered bubbler for each of your tanks. Two or more for a really big one. This will keep things alive.

Another thing you can do [and should!] for your computers is get UPS systems, if you live in a region with spikey electricity---it's hard on the equipment. An Uninterruptible Power Source can be had at CompUSA, and you have to plug it in a day before it will work. YOu plug the computer into that and you have a power conditioner that sends power along to your computer, while continually recharging itself. If power goes, it can run your computer quite a while. AND it can run an ordinary airpump connected to a lot of small airlines with potent bubblers---which can save your bacon if you're in a longish outage. The tanks can live longer without light and skimming than without air.

 

[duec22]

Petco has really cheap battery powered air pumps that work great also. They are something like $8 each and last for about 24hrs.

 

[BlueCorn]

Yup - some Darwin award candidate hit a power pole at Walnut and Robertson.

The power was off for less than an hour but it was enough incentive to finally go buy a generator for just those types of things.

 

[E-A-G-L-E-S]

http://www.aquatichouse.com/Pumps_files/hurricaneairpumps.asp

the last one at the bottom....

my neighborhood has had three, one to two hour outages in the last 60 hours

 

[Nu2SW]

THe power has been going off alot lately, Mine went off a few days ago, I dont know how long I wasnt home, but everything was blinking 12:00 and my FW filters were not working.