Sad Sad Day Without Power
 

A Sad Sad DAY,
I have been without power for about 30 hours out here in Langley, Lost both my clowns and a couple of chromis's. My anenome and my corals. I have taken the surviving fish out of the tank and into a big bucket and transported them to where there is power and I have the skimmer and heater going, I almost lost my Koran angel he is the only one that is looking a little shaky still. Disappointing to loose everything!

Sorry to hear about your bad luck. Its sounds like you guys are really getting pounded hard.

What happened to your power.

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Strongly considering one of them power inverters from Crappy Tire for such a situation in the future.

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.

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

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.

oh man
 

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?

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

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