Hurricane Sandy, power outage?

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kitnerjr

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I am in Central PA, and we are expected to be hit with the worst of hurricane sandy. I am concerned that about losing power for several days and how to keep my fish alive. We don't have any means of emergency power backup or heat.
I have a 125 gallon set at about 78 degrees, i read about warming bottles of water on a grill and floating them to keep the temperature at a reasonable degree. What else can I do? How will they do without several days or weeks of filtration?
 
Stop feeding now, do large wc while you can; when the power goes out, take out the bio filter material, put it in a mesh bag and float in aquarium, buy some battery backed up air pumps are agitate the surface when power goes out...

And what you said about the water temp.


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If you have sponge filters that are seeded, you can always run battery powered air pumps.

If you don't have sponge filters, I suppose you could make one with a bottle and some used filter mesh, cut the bottom off the bottle, and stuff the filter material into the bottom. fix an air stone to the top of the bottle, then secure it upside down in the tank and run with a battery powered air pump.

beyond that, how often you think you can do water changes, provided you can supply the right temp water?

While you still have power, you may want to gradually bring down the temps now just to prepare. Better than letting the temps drop too quickly
 
Not good go find a small generator ASAP before they are all sold out. Battery backup air pumps with a ton of batteries. Maybe a kerosine heater in the room and keep room warm even though I'm not a fan of them. Try for generator though. That way you can run some other things around house too. They a worth investment. I have lost power for 4-5 days multiple times and run all my tanks off generator . Never a casualty
 
Generator is not an option at this point, we can't even find a store that has batteries or flash lights left.
I am heading to the pet store shortly to see if I can find anything filter or pump related that is battery operated. I'm hoping the power doesn't go, but in case I want to be semi-prepared.
 
kitnerjr said:
Generator is not an option at this point, we can't even find a store that has batteries or flash lights left.
I am heading to the pet store shortly to see if I can find anything filter or pump related that is battery operated. I'm hoping the power doesn't go, but in case I want to be semi-prepared.
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Good luck. I hope that your power doesn't go out.


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Battery air pumps and wrap the tank in blankets tightly. And just try not to open lids to keep the heat in. Maybe crank the heat up in the room in case it does go out maybe that'll help keep the temps level too


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