On no! 6hr power outage today. What to do?

[gobytron]

IMO
You dont need to go to those lengths as long as you have a generator and know that the power outage is coming.

salt settles when uncirculated, so it's not that your water loses so mch oxygen, it's that the salt settles on the bottom, killing the oxygen there and leaving a very oxygenated, low salinity layer on top.

My house loses power a few times a year at least and all I do is run a heater on each of my tanks and a Koralia 1 in each off of a small, 150$ generator.

Have never lost a fish on power outages, longest was almost 30 hours winter before last.

Go ahead and run back and forth from the barbecue, but its unneccesary if you have a small generator.

[amy]

Current stock is a regal tang, melanurus wrasse, scopa tang, mandarin goby, niger trigger, lawnmower blenny,2 clowns and a nem plus the corals.

[fencer]

CDN tire back up battery

[GMGQ]

Necessities in order of importance (IMO):

1. Heater
2. Air pump
3. Small powerhead

[lastlight]

Perhaps not the most efficient way but if I have that issue I will run an extension cord out to my truck and run it off of that.

[DisneyCoralReef]

You make a good point! we get a lot of outages, usually don't last to long, but we do get them. I had never thought of that or what I would do if we got one. Going to have to inquire about that to some fellow fishers.

[sphelps]

An air pump alone will be enough to keep everything happy for 6 hours. Unless the tank is pretty small heat loss shouldn't be an issue either. Not sure what the fan would be for but I wouldn't use it, a second air pump would be more effective.

Is the power outage in effect now? Is so I'm guessing any advice at this point is fairly useless unless you have access through a smart phone or something.