So Sad! So Painful that I honestly can cry!!!

[kttsf]

The electricity in my area went out at 5pm last night, I thought it would only be a few hours (like it happend before), it just went back up now @ 4:15am. I just checked my tank and most of my fish are dead. This is really suck…my favorite fat hippo tang that I had for 5 yrs is dead. My yellow tang and scopas tang are dead. My lovely mandarin that I trained to eat pellet and my hawk fish that I love so much and other. This is so painful to deal with. After my five years….I never experienced this before. It’s almost 5am now, too early to call people and I need to let it out so I thought I write on here. Been sitting here and staring at them but I guess I am going to take them out now and send them to fish heaven…man…this is really suck!!!

 

[fishnfst]

My condolences... Sucks to lose any livestock...

 

[digeetech]

Man, that was a low blow! Hope you recover soon.

GL

 

[Mr. Ugly]

 

[FunGuy]

Sorry

 

[northbay-reefer]

Wow that is so devastating, sorry for that.

Battery backup and maybe a battery powered airpump in case of emergency is a must in this hobby

 

[Kinetic]

sorry to hear about that. that really really sucks!

the power in the berkeley area went out for hours and hours a few weeks ago. thank goodness I had one of those battery powered air pumps. I got the Hurricane Category 5 one that has two outlets, I believe it saved my tank.

definitely get one of these next time.

I hope some stuff pulls through, let us know how it goes.

 

[CitS]

Soooo Sorrry

 

[Dyngoe]

Damn, so sorry to hear that. I know the pain I'd feel if that happened.

After reading the threads here and on other places in RC I went to my parents and "borrowed" my dad's small honda generator. Hopefully I don't need it, but I don't have a UPS so it's my only option if it happens here.

 

[kttsf]

Thank you everyone...

I don't have any clues about back up battery or battery powered air pump so if anyone can tell where to get them or what other options out there so I can prevent this kind of tragedy. It would be highly appreciated.

I never pay attention to this before because I always thought electricity can never go out that long in the city unless we have an earthquake, storm or hurricane. I guess I’ve learned my lesson the hard way.

 

[jellygeee]

Sorry to hear about that.

 

[650-IS350]

Sorry to hear that Brandon,

 

[northbay-reefer]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=10148507#post10148507 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by kttsf
Thank you everyone...

I don't have any clues about back up battery or battery powered air pump so if anyone can tell where to get them or what other options out there so I can prevent this kind of tragedy. It would be highly appreciated.

I never pay attention to this before because I always thought electricity can never go out that long in the city unless we have an earthquake, storm or hurricane. I guess I’ve learned my lesson the hard way.

here something like this

http://www.marinedepot.com/aquarium_air_pumps_hagen_battery_operated.asp?CartId=

the battery backup is the same thing that people use for their computers , something like this should do, just hook up one of your power head or pump to this and it will kick in automatically when the power goes out and will last for several hours depending on the load.

http://www.apc.com/products/family/index.cfm?id=21

 

[Kinetic]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=10148507#post10148507 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by kttsf
Thank you everyone...

I don't have any clues about back up battery or battery powered air pump so if anyone can tell where to get them or what other options out there so I can prevent this kind of tragedy. It would be highly appreciated.

I never pay attention to this before because I always thought electricity can never go out that long in the city unless we have an earthquake, storm or hurricane. I guess I’ve learned my lesson the hard way.

I use a battery powered air pump to keep the water moving. This is the one I use:
http://www.marinedepot.com/aquarium_air_pumps_hurricane_category_5_battery_professional.asp?CartId=

It's amazingly powerful, it makes my 40g breeder's xenia and hammer corals sway really well. It has two outlets and works for 28 hours at full, or 48 hours if you have it come on intermittently.

This is good for shorter outages, and when temperatures aren't ridiculous.

Another thing to do is a power generator, either a gas one or one of those car battery type rigs people setup. Those are fairly easy to DIY, but you may be able to buy expensive ones. These will run powerheads and maybe a heater? I'm not sure, can someone else chime in on this option?

 

[kttsf]

Thanks for all the info northbay-reefer and Kenetic. Good info! I will look into it.

Hey Charles (delsol650),

Your pair of dragon gobies made it and doing fine.
I am thinking about having a reef tank only without fish. Seeing so many fish that I love died is so devastating. I hope you don't mind if I decided to put the pair of dragon gobies for sale if I choose to have a reef tank without fish. The gobies are so fun to look at and just finished lay a bunch of eggs.

 

[Nuuze]

That sucks, sorry to hear!

 

[Bebo77]

always have a generator!!!!!

 

[Sparkss]

That is sad to hear

If you need a place to house your fish until you can get your tank back stabilized, let us know. There is a pretyt big, isolated section of our refugium that we could house them in until you are ready for them, and they would be easy enough to trap back out then too. Just let us know.

 

[Sparkss]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=10149149#post10149149 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Bebo77
always have a generator!!!!!

We have 2 interstate class 'D' RV batteries and a couple of inverters. most of the benefit without the drawbacks of the generator

Pros

We can use them inside
No noise
No chance of someone stealing it during the night (like a generator left outside could be)

Cons

Can't run down to the gas station and refill the batteries (but they last a couple of days each to run our return pumps, etc).
Initial cost is a bit more than the generator, but "refills" are cheaper (minimal trickle charge to "refill them".. once power is back on, of course).

 

[JOHNNYHO]

man, i've had my electricity go out for 2 days before and all my live stock made it! So Sorry to hear about your situation, go with the back up battery ( http://www.apc.com/products/family/index.cfm?id=21 ) and just plug in the air source and powerheads for water movement and gas exchange, it will last easily 2 days because its only pulling low wattage equipment, they sell those at office depot for around $80 IF i remember correctly. Good luck and sorry to hear once again.