Sad Sad Day Without Power

krisalexander · #1 11-16-2006, 08:23 PM

That would have been nice to have, but we dont usually lose power often, it is suppose to be back on early morning tomorrow. So i will have to keep them in the bucket till then. Then start the rebuilding process of the corals.

Midknight · #2 11-16-2006, 08:34 PM

I have a frag of xena and star palups if you want.

Chad · #3 11-17-2006, 03:19 AM

well, I had no power for over 48hrs, but luckily I have three different power packs / power inverters. So that got my tank through, but today I thought I would buy a nice cheap generator for any future power outtages.

Now, I realize that generators do not produce a proper sine wave but I asked this guy and he replied that it could run a TV etc. Perfect, would love to watch some TV and keep the tank happy. Well, I put the TV on the generator, everything looks good.. but then all of a sudden there is a fizzing.. oh and smoke.. oh.. Opps. TV is now gone! ... so is the DVD player. then the fan is gone that I was using to air out the now stinky room. I call up the guy who sold it too me. and he says " you can only use it on Analoge TV's" WTF!!! I asked him specificly. Sigh... getting my money back but that is it.

Chin_Lee · #4 11-17-2006, 03:45 AM

Chad
thats a bad story about a generator. Can you post the make and model that you bought so we all can learn what not to buy?

Tom R · #5 11-17-2006, 03:53 AM

I feel your pane.

My power was only off for 15 hours and I worked all night long to keep even the slightest water circulation. By 12:30 my corals were well stressed and the fish were suffocating. I decided to spend the night with a turkey baster and a 2 liter juice container to try and keep even the slightest circulation. By 4:00 am it was looking pretty bad. I had 4 fish and 2 shrimp that looked like they were dead. I was desperate. My large majestic had lost all its colour and was laying lifeless on the sand. At 4:20 am the power came back on and within a half hour the majority of the fish and the corals were starting to show some life. By 8:00 am I started to take inventory thinking for the worst.
After all this I lost my Cherub Angel and a cleaner shrimp. Tonight the rest including the Majestic angel were looking like they will all make it.
I was extremely lucky and I will now as we all should develop a disaster plan hoping that we never need it.

krisalexander I have some soft corals that may help to get your tank back into the hobby.

Tom R

krisalexander · #6 11-17-2006, 04:39 AM

I appreciate the condolences, I have lost all fish now except my yellow tang, and two gobies. And all my frags of softies, I would definately appreciate some frags Rob that would be great. It will be acouple of days until I get everything back up and going, so i will send you a litte PM then, Thanks again

kris

SeaHorse_Fanatic · #7 11-17-2006, 05:32 AM

Kris,

Give me a call when you're back in town. Sorry to hear about your losses man. I have 2 battery back ups, so if things go wrong, I'll plug in the powerheads on one & bring the other to my in-laws or my parents to keep it charged & just keep switching them out. Hopefully it won't ever come to that, but we lucked out in Burnaby & didn't have any outages here.

Anthony

Johnny Reefer · #8 11-17-2006, 05:52 AM

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Originally Posted by SeaHorse_Fanatic

.... I have 2 battery back ups, so if things go wrong, I'll plug in the powerheads ....

Speaking of UPS's, ...and sorry for the hijack...., but where? can one get a simple UPS to plug, just that, a powerhead into....oh and a heater would be good too. All I seem to find are computer oriented UPS's that have unecessary fax, modem and USB port plug-ins. Anyone know where to get just a basic UPS?

EDIT: Oh...and my condolences on your losses. In my mind this is one of those things that we don't like to think about or don't prepare for. (I'm not). The "It'll never happen to me syndrome". Stories like these make me rethink that. Thanx for sharing.

Thanx much,

goby1 · #9 11-17-2006, 02:11 PM

Sorry for your losses, that really sucks. I'm in Langley too and went without power for over 16 hours. It was a sleepless night and I thought I'd get up to a crashed system and all my fish dead but I got lucky and didn't lose anything. Any longer and it probably wouldn't have been pretty, it was cold in here. I guess I just got lucky.

BCOrchidGuy · #10 12-12-2006, 04:36 AM

Sorry to hear Kris, I lost a lot of fish/corals from heat about 6 years ago, for some reason my basement temp went through the roof and my tank cooked. I got out of the hobby after than but am trying to get back into it now. Best of luck.

Doug