i've used a couple of UPS power packs from cosco, the one's you use for your computer. one ran air stones and the other the heater the one with the air stones never died we had lost power for about 30hr i was pretty impressed and nothing died. I think i was freakin out enough though.

Kyle

Gads! During a four hour power outage one hot summer night a few years back, we stirred our 180g oscar tank, a 110g indoor goldfish pond and a 75g reef. Don't know how much it helped, but at least we felt we were doing something :wink:

Danny,

Hope all is well with your power soon! With the weather being hot and having no power, I'm sure your animals are feeling the stress. Good luck, man :)

I bought a couple of the Canadian Tire, Noma 400w backup power supplies a month or so back. I have the return pump on each tank powered by one and I figure they should give me about four or five hours of run time. Hopefully that will be sufficent to get the tanks through.

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Well, the power only went out for a couple hours yesterday afternoon. They must have been finishing up their work or something. When I got home everything appeared to be normal......until about 8:30pm.

I decided to do a small water change with the remainder of my salt. A good idea since my anemone decided to spawn right in the middle of it. At least I think it was spawning. I know what spitting out zooanthalea looks like, but this stuff was white and milky. Man I wish I had taken pics, but there was no time! So there I am with my hand in the tank with my siphon hose, waiting for the next excretion to come out so I could suck it up. I didn't get it all but I think my efforts helped. I can't help wondering if the tank being calm for a day is what triggered the animal to spawn?

So after I thought the sebae was done I doubled up my carbon and skimming. Man what a smell. Going to get some more salt today and do a large water change tonight.