1st Power Outage 0 Deaths 1 Injury.

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nfored

nfored

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Well I went through my first outage 14 hours, without power. No fish died thanks to all the good information you guys prepared me with but my large Oscar got jacked up. The power came back on at 11:33 pm and the fish where sleeping, I went to check on them and every one was string except my Oscar who was just laying on the bottom behind the rocks. I couldn't see him moving so I stuck the net in the tank and touched him. Well this is when I figured out he was sleeping as he freaked out and ran full speed into the rocks causing them to topple over. He now has gashes on his head and one side of his body.

Off to the pet store tomorrow to get some stress coat. The water was full of crude, and I lost 3 degrees in water temperature. I did forget to stir the sump so I hope I didn't dump a tone of toxic water into the system when I came back on, but I am hoping the 14 hours was not long enough to make the water toxic.

Anything else I should do besides stress coat? Not really a fan of salt but if it will help I will add it. I just worry about infection from the cuts since the filter was off for so long the water might not be as clean as could be
 
Probably should do a water change tomorrow just incase you lost some BB and your nitrates spike. I would also not feed for a day or two to help the BB catch up. The fish will be fine with out food for a few days. Your not out of the woods yet
 
Hum didn't think of the bb dying off. Sunday is my water change day but I didn't have any hot water so I had to postpone until today so that works out.

Just wondering what would have caused the bb to die off? I kinda thought at worse I would get some anaerobic bb that was hungry from some nitrates.
 
Mind if i ask what you did to help your fish during the 14 hour power outage?

Thanks,
Chris
 
Options;4280121; said:
Mind if i ask what you did to help your fish during the 14 hour power outage?

Thanks,
Chris
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I stuck a Garden hose in the bottom of the tank, then about every hour or hour and a half I walked down stairs and blew air through it for about 2 or 3 minutes. This provided enough gas exchange.

Update one death the freaking pump. when the power came back on the pump was rattling more then normal but still pumping water. Today I shut it down and opened the shaft up to take out the impeller to check for debris. I found no debris but the the big round magnet around the impeller was pitted and groved, like a rotor when you dont change your breaks. One section of the impeller well was also grooved So i cleaned it all out as good as I cold and plugged it back up. Now it wont pump It sounds like It tries to start but gets stuck. My only guess is when it powered up I had something in there that tore up the shaft, however as long as it was running it stayed in alignment. Then when I powered it off the reverse siphon forced the derbies out, leaving the shaft unbalanced and unable to start.
 
I didn't think it would. I mean there is enough much in the sump to feed the bb. I feel cheated on the pump. I had A little Giant pes-800-pw Awesome pump that I paid 70 bucks for 2 years ago never gave me an ounce of trouble; and I can't fault the pump for the damage. SO I thought I will by the same pump, well the good fokes at Little Giant no longer make this revision of the pump, now the same model pump has about 200gph lower out put. I called and asked whats the deal with make the same pump only in lower performance, I basically just wanted to tell them that was a sad business choice.
 
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