Power out, VERY bad night?

[lpsouth1978@msn.com]

It appears that the power just went out in a large part of Aurora. If it doesn't come back on in a short time, I am going to lose ALL of my tanks. If that happens I am afraid that I we be forced from the hobby. I will not be able to come back from that disaster.

 

[Dbarnes]

I have had my power out for 12+ hours with little issue just keep some oxygen in the water

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[lpsouth1978@msn.com]

How would you go about doing that? I have three tanks in danger and not a single battery powered air pump. I can agitate the water in each briefly from time to time. But how much is that really going to do? Either way I am not going to get any sleep until the power comes back on.

 

[lpsouth1978@msn.com]

I just got off the phone with Excel Energy and they said that power should be restored by 1:30am. Will it be a problem if the power is out for an hour and a half or will everything be ok?

 

[SteveT]

I think an hour and a half would be ok, but if it was me I would manually stir it from time to time and let the house get a little toasty to insure no loss.

 

[lpsouth1978@msn.com]

Thanks, I will stir the water. As for keeping the house toasty, I have no way to control that right now because.... The power is out. Hahaha

 

[Dbarnes]

Yea deff take a picture of water and pull wayer out and dump in to agitate the water, hour and a half should be no problem.

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[ShelbyJK500]

Hope it worked out?!?

 

[Wicked Color]

+1, hope all is well.

 

[Haddonisreef]

Geta cordless drill and maxijet propeller to stier the water!

 

[ReeferMatt]

When this happens I use a DC converter running from my car battery to run my return pump. A portable jump kit can also help, but must be used sparingly, as you can't just run the car a bit and juice it back up.

 

[space]

I lost power Saturday for about 4 hour. I was gone from the house so I was worried when I got home but everyone seemed to be ok. Now, my tank is a lot smaller than most on this site.

 

[Lowenbrau]

Power was out for me Saturday night as well, but I wasn't home. I got home and it turned on about 10 minutes later. Small back-flow flood, looks like one Chalice lost. My return pump broke..... I am going to try and come up with a power outage solution.

 

[BPreefer]

Hope you suffered no loss and all is well.

 

[MSwift]

any updates?

 

[lpsouth1978@msn.com]

Thank you all for the help and concern. Thankfully everything made it through the night ok. I was very tired at work the next morning, since I had to keep the water moving manually until the power was restored, but all is basically well. I do have a rainbow anemone that has been looking REALLY bad ever since, but I hope that it will pill through.