Loading ...Yesterday at 8am, I walked into my garage (the current setup of my holding tank) to find that my setup didn’t have any power. I quickly ran to the breaker box to find out that its main supply breaker had tripped. Knowing from previous experience, I checked my light’s timers to find out when they stopped working (ticking). To my surprise, they shut down at 3pm on September 16th. That meant that the tank was powerless for around 17hrs. Once the lights came on, I immediately found a few fish dead. Gonners were a chalk bass, heniouchus butterfly and (my favorite) juvi emperor angel. My splendid dottyback was on the verge.
All of the corals were unaffected, thankfully. The temperature was……… 63 degrees. I managed to raise it to 70 degrees (where I capped it) and will monitor the tank for anything crazy. Tomorrow I will raise the temp to 77 degrees, which is where normally i keep the tank’s water.
I am really mad at myself for not hooking up my APC UPS to a powerhead. If I did that, someone could have heard the loud beeping that the UPS emits once it is running on backup battery. This would have alerted my wife or myself and wouldn’t have to type this blog out!
What a painful lesson about UPS to learn. Always keep it on and handy.
Trained by the thirteenth ring master of the Sian Xiuang Coral Temple. Currently is apprenticing the art of Acropora shaping in the ancient tradition of Ninja Fragging. Known as the SPS hero!
I experienced the horror of this last weekend when a massive windstorm took power out in Southwestern Ohio and Northern Kentucky. Luckily, I was only without power for 6 hours and caught it right away to run powerheads and battery powered air pumps. But a lot of people in my club have lost many fish and coral, some people STILL do not have power restored. It is a tragedy.
Thats horrible. I think the other thing that you can do is to buy a gas powered generator that you can use when long term power outtages happen.
I told you to give me your spledid dottyback
Now I have 3 UPS, 1 gas generator at my facility for emergencies just like this…
I thought you bought a Dell UPS back last year, was it plugged in?
Nope. Dummy didn’t plug it in.
I’m sorry, very sorry!
I suggest you to not light the light, and use many many active carbon but with no circulating pumps for a while, to clean water in a less agressive way.
In any case I found very useful these UPS, made specifically for aquarium… http://www.danireef.com/2008/08/13/zeus-conto-alla-rovescia-count-down/ the wave is sinusoidal perfect, I will post photos as soon as possible.
I’m very sorry.
Danilo
http://www.DaniReef.com