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fireguy98
09-01-2012, 03:54 PM
Fyi power is out in port moody coquitlam and anmore. I've only had my tank up and running for 9 months now and we haven't had a outage yet. How long can it go with out power before I have issues. My wife is at home are there any actions she should take.

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coolhandgoose
09-01-2012, 04:41 PM
Hopefully the power is on soon. The biggest problem with an outage is water oxygenation. What she can do is take lke a wooden spoon and stir the water up for a few minutes every so often.
MKLKT
09-01-2012, 06:57 PM
Must be up in the northern area, I'm closer to Lougheed and power's fine. Something good to have is a battery powered air-stone.
daplatapus
09-01-2012, 10:24 PM
Heard 4 hrs is the max you want the tank to sit there. But much depends on water volume and bioload. Agitate water surface.
scherzo
09-01-2012, 11:24 PM
Whoa, read this and freaked a little since I'm 100 Kms away! Thanks goodness for my Apex.

I still don't have battery backup though.

I have just plugged in a small powerhead into an inverter in my car and ran an extents on cord.

Battery powered air stone is a good option. And as others have said, store the water surface every 15 minutes or so. Depends on your water volume.
fireguy98
09-01-2012, 11:32 PM
Thanks for the info. Had my bride stir the tank every 15 mins.

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spit.fire
09-02-2012, 01:30 AM
My tank went 28hrs with almost no power (I had 1 mp40 running on my suburbans inverter for 12hrs sucking air from the surface) all I lost was a snail although I dont have much for corals in the tank, fish were fine tho
ashr
09-02-2012, 02:05 AM
EcoTech MP10 + backup battery!! So worth the money!!
RuGlu6
09-02-2012, 03:13 AM
BC Hydro web site has a map of power outages as well as ETA for power back "ON".
http://www.bchydro.com/outages/orsMapView.jsp

But watch for those particle cannons aka the Sun ! Tonight and tomorrow morning,
if big enough CME comes our way forget about power for a long time !

http://lucas2012infos.wordpress.com/2012/09/01/2-minutes-news-mega-filament-eruption-1-september-2012/

Cool particle hitting Earth video
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coronal_mass_ejection