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RE: What do you do when the power goes out?

saltyfresh — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 17:00:59 GMT

i recently just avoided a disaster when my landlord was late on an electric bill pmt. i was just stopping home from work to get lunch when the electric co. was pulling up to turn off the power. i caughed up a few bucks to keep the juice running and when all was said and done, i began making angry phone calls to the landlord.

thanks for the ideas, i've been worried that this might happen again in the future and i may not be home to prevent it.

does the battery backup kick on automatically as soon as the power goes out ? where can i find a similar product and how do i connect it to my system?

will it condition and charge on its own while the power is on?

as far as the marine battery system is concerned, how do you keep those battery's charged and is that a manual on-off system, details on these would be greatly appreciated. Thanks again.

RE: What do you do when the power goes out?

FishChannel Moderator — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 09:25:16 GMT

We had a news article on FishChannel about this very subject, check it out:

http://www.fishchannel.com/fish-news/2007-october/071023-keeping-fish-alive.aspx

F.M.

RE: What do you do when the power goes out?

irideredrr — Sun, 18 Nov 2007 19:31:42 GMT

I havent had a power outage problem yet, but when and if I do all these posts have given me a few ideas that will help. Thanks!

RE: What do you do when the power goes out?

snoborder01183 — Sun, 23 Sep 2007 08:56:15 GMT

I do things a little cheaper then most of the people who responded, it works great though!!

What i did was get 4 battery powered air stones and 4 space blankets! I read an article once and it said the most important things are water movement and the temp so i took care of both of those and my tank does great in every power outage!!!! When the power goes out i just toss the air stones in there and throw the space blankets over and around my tank. I have never lost anything due to a power outage!!!!

hope that helps!!!

RE: What do you do when the power goes out?

MistressAlphaFemale — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 18:21:59 GMT

I have a gas powered generater for my larger tanks (Yes I hook up more then 1) I also have 4 trash can buckets full of R/O water. I make it a couple days before a storm hits (speacly Hurricain Season). If the storm looks REALLY t a bad I have 3 pals that work at other "LFS" and I rent a tank or tanks off of them in the "Safe" a zone and put up my harder to find or long cared for friends. If its only for an hr or 2 I never worry. Im a "just" incase person lol.

As for the SW person I'd never say im an expert but Im not novice.

RE: What do you do when the power goes out?

fishtk75 — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 04:11:39 GMT

Hailey (7/16/2007)

Unfortunately there aren't really any saltwater experts here (a couple from other forums stop by very occasionally). We just have a bunch of beginners who are learning themselves (including myself). Sorry no one could help.

Hailey,
Do not worry about that.
As you said we are all learning everyday something no matter how long or short we have been in the hobby.
thanks for the input.

RE: What do you do when the power goes out?

Hailey — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 18:25:31 GMT

RE: What do you do when the power goes out?

fishtk75 — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 16:11:03 GMT

I am sorry no one took the time to answer.
So I found on the web so I hope it will help others. I got a computer battery backup and plugged in the sump pumps to them. It works great it ran I know for 3 hours because the power went off. For longer time as 12 or 24 hours I am hooking up a marine deep cycle boat 12 battery to it. I saw it on the web and he had is running for 24 hours. if you have but you need to know there it a limit. I only had the mag 3 and 5 pumps for the sumps running no heaters,lights,power heads that as I read uses the battery in no time. For that you need a generator.Or you can only hookup a small air pump to it and that will run along time or add more batteries together for the size pump you have to run longer.

I hope this help all out there there are things to help us not lose your tanks.
For a few dollars it will save thousands of dollars.

What do you do when the power goes out?

fishtk75 — Sat, 14 Jul 2007 10:12:37 GMT

What do you all do when you have no power?
As for hour or day.what is there that out there to use?
I have reefs 75 and 120.