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11-17-2006, 04:39 AM
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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 
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11-17-2006, 05:32 AM
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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
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11-17-2006, 05:52 AM
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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,
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Mark. Last edited by Johnny Reefer; 11-17-2006 at 01:49 PM.
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11-17-2006, 02:11 PM
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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.
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11-17-2006, 03:19 PM
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Luckily, my power was only off for about 8 hours. After about 7 hours I plugged an inverter into the van and ran a powerhead and a 100 w heater. By this point I was probably getting pretty tough to live with
 Seems to be no end to the stuff I have to buy for this hobby!! Now I have to buy a generator.
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11-17-2006, 04:54 PM
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I bought my battery packs from Canadian Tire. Its the ones you can use to jumpstart your car. Works great for that too
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11-17-2006, 05:24 PM
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Hi Anthony
Have you tested the back on your system to see how long it would run a pump and heater for. Tom R
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12-12-2006, 04:36 AM
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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
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12-12-2006, 06:32 AM
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I have a Honda EU 1000 and have used it extensively for camping for the past 3 yrs and I just finished using it to keep my Hammerhead recirc pump operational for the last three hours of no power...works great and the oil and gas are separate. I have metered it and it has never gone over 117 Volts.
Mike
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12-13-2006, 01:20 AM
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Probably not the best for a big tank, but dell has a sale today only on a small battery backup unit:
http://accessories.dell.com/sna/prod...1&sku=A0543170 Only $29.
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