HiStory of Past

[inkblue]

Am curious to know what ya'll (Houston accent) did when the big blackout occured a couple of years back? Did your livestock make it through those hot summer days without electricity... :question:

 

[jhale]

bad memories,

everything but two fish died.

thanks Con Ed

 

[jackson6745]

At the time I didn't have a backup power source so the minute I saw my whole area was without power, I ran to the bait and tackle store and bought battery opperated air pumps with a bunch of batteries. They kept my reef alive for 27hrs without any losses.....many people weren't as lucky as me

 

[jenniebutterfly]

i had a 10 gallon tank, i was also out of town, and somehow the only thing i lost was green star polyps. but i was freaking out the whole time wondering what would be dead. but i did come back to a nasty fridge ewwwwww

 

[DEEPWATER]

i didnt have a tank back then ,so im luck ,,srry to all who werent so lucky,,

i mlooking into get a marine batt,,a convertor to make my pump work ,this way i can use the batt till it dies go to my car ,charge the batt ,and im all good ,ill you you guys know when i have it all hooked up ,,hope it work ,i should have it done in 3 weeks,with the jewish holidays and work ,im tied up ,

 

[inkblue]

:scratchch i wonder how long a UPS will keep the tank going since most of the filters and pumPs are low wattage

 

[rickytsui]

i lost everything that i had in my 46g cuz of the black out

 

[inkblue]

those days suck'd. i live in front of a park and some kids were shooting off guns... :grumpy:

 

[inline6]

got real lucky... the BO occured the day after my wife and I arrived in Kauai, Hawaii for our Vacation
Didn't have a reef tank then.

 

[ulmo]

Those were dark times. I lost most of my live stock except for some leathers, mushrooms and the indistructible damsels. Hope that never happens again!

 

[House of Laughter]

I lost my mated clarkii clown and anenome in my nano at work.

At home this is what I did (92g corner):

I too my cordless drill (Ryobi) and put the 1" drill bit in. I then took a flat wooden spoon from my kitchen and duct taped it to the 1" drill bit. every 15 minutes I would let her rip in the tank for 3-5 minutes.

At night, I would do 10 minutes every two hours. I didn't get much sleep, but the only think I lost was one of my powder blue staghorns.

Now I own a batter operated air pump and a 1875w gas generator which can support 15amos at full load and run 6 hours on a tank of gas. It's a coleman and cost me $399. Since I have a house, it makes sense, cause now, I can hook the fish tank pump and the refrig without demage.

House

 

[bad coffee]

I spent 8 hours or so with a beer in one hand and a turkey baster in the other. THe beer was gonna go bad, and so was the tank if I didn't stir it. I got my power back around 4:30 am.

Didn't loose a thing. But I didn't have much in the tank either.

BC

 

[inkblue]

Man, I feel for all of you who lost precious pets... :sleepy: