I ALWAYS keep battery air pumps handy for moving fish or power outages. Used to keep a sponge filter running on an air pump so when power went out I'd just switch to battery and still have filtration.
I have at least one sponge filter on each tank and a few battery powered pumps for emergency or moving big fish/acclimating.
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