I have not seen any talk abut this. Do you have a DC to AC power inverter. You plug it in your car battery and you should be able to run small pumps with it. Do not worry about heat.
Everyone. Power outage here!!!
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I have not seen any talk abut this. Do you have a DC to AC power inverter. You plug it in your car battery and you should be able to run small pumps with it. Do not worry about heat.
This is not a bad idea but kinda difficult cause who has a extra car battery laying around? Plus you wouldn't want to kill your car battery in this situation just in case you need to evacuate or just relocate.
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thank you everyone, all of my fish survived. Power is back!!
That's good to hear
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I have access to a small fleet of cars and have and extra battery or two. If all you are worried about is air pumps a power inverter should run a long time on a car battery. and you can turn your car on for 15 minutes at a time to run larger pumps to keep things fresh. So the question would be how much power does you set up take excluding heaters and lights. Because they are not needed in an emergency
I have access to a small fleet of cars and have and extra battery or two. If all you are worried about is air pumps a power inverter should run a long time on a car battery. and you can turn your car on for 15 minutes at a time to run larger pumps to keep things fresh. So the question would be how much power does you set up take excluding heaters and lights. Because they are not needed in an emergency
Not everyone is that lucky. Like I said its not a bad idea just not every can access those things. Besides it would be much easier to have battery powered air pumps. In a major storm like blizzards or hurricanes it would be a challenge trying to do all that every hour when you could just drop in a air stone and flip a switch and just leave it running till power comes back.
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for my 2 large tanks. I put a bar stool on a lot of thick code books( I am a architectural engineers. I have a lot of thick code books). And put a 15 gallon plastic box filled with water on the stool. Then use a air tube slowly drain water out of the box into tank ( you need suck the free end of air tube first. Once water is running then you can just left it). I do it every 5 hours
For 2 small tank, I moved the 10 and 20 next to my bed. I used a bottle to pull water into them whenever I remember.
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For 2 small tank, I moved the 10 and 20 next to my bed. I used a bottle to pull water into them whenever I remember.
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Glad your fish made it.. we had a scare ourselves and lost power for about 6 hours when a tree struck by lighting fell into our yard taking out the power-lines with it. That back-up generator we've been talking about since we moved in suddenly got much higher on our list...
