Chest Rockwell
Aquarium Advice Activist
Thought I would like to share a crazy situation that just happened to me. The entire apartment building lost power due to a blown transformer and the entire meter board going out also on a Saturday night. I figure the power company would come out and fix everything within several hours. After 4 hours of no power I went to Wally world and got four $5 dollar aerators. Then the power company told me that they needed parts but couldn't get it till Mon. That sucked for me because the cheap aerators I have use up 2xAA in 18hrs. I bought a lot of batterys. I had to move the fish in my 30G into my 90G. That's 43 fish in there...I had 2 pumps on my 90G and my 58G. Monday comes and find out that power won't be restored til Thursday morning! I did not feed my fish the entire time. The temperature here during the day is 85-90F. I just left the windows and patio door open the whole time. I had one of the aerators hooked up to a big sponge filter which worked quite well to my surprise. I also threw all biomedia into media bags and dropped them in the tanks. During that time I lost 2 peacocks, 2 Kenyi, and a Johanni. I also had to set up a small container for my turtles and took them with me to a hotel. All I brought with me was a basking dock, uvb bulb, 40W incandescent, Safe, and turtle pellets. When power finally was restored it took me about 7hrs to redo all my tanks with massive w/c and knowing all the BB in my 30G and Quarantine tank decor/substrate died, during this I rescaped all my tanks minus the Nano. My nano RCS did well also. It is heavily planted so I just set it out on my back patio to get direct sunlight for about 2.5hrs a day. Just to say just make sure you got air in the tank(cheap at wal-mart) and don't feed. Put all your biomedia in your tanks. When power comes on do big w/c. Now I just hope this Hurricane Matthew doesn't knock out power on the west coast of Florida.....
