The electricity went out for 14 hours in my house (I live in Queens) I was in Manhattan at the time and had to burrow a pair of rollerblade just to get home, I was planning on hooking up a small pump to a converter to my car, since I don't have the battery powered pump. the converter fail on que, I freak out, tried to drive to my friends place in the dark streets, and got stuck before the brooklyn bridge. By the time I got home it was 8:00pm and when I check my tank, the cleaner shrimps, clown fish and my brittle star was lying infront of the rock work and my foxface was no where to be seem. So the only thing I can think of, was a small syphon starter I have, so I hook it up to an airline and an air stone. And for the next eight hours I sat there pumping air into my tank.
In the end I wasn't able to save the foxface and the anthia but every thing else survived, my arm's still sore from squeezing that damn rubber ball the whole night.....
In the end I wasn't able to save the foxface and the anthia but every thing else survived, my arm's still sore from squeezing that damn rubber ball the whole night.....
For some strange reason when I made it home from NYC the corals looked better than they did before I left Thursday. The Clams looked good and they opened up without gaping, I didnt change any water cause I figured the power had come back before I got home and all the ammonia in the sump had already been put in the tank, plus everything looked good (except all the bodies I had to fish out of the LR crevaces ) I think I made it out lucky, I'm putting in a generator to fail over to just in case this ever happens again.....
