My Biggest Fear Almost Came True

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Raymann88

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I Had a power outage Monday night in the middle of the night for an hour plus. Checked my rays / tanks when I woke up and all was running. Got home from work about 7:00 last night and found everything turned off on my big tank. No air, filtration or heat for 4 hours! The APC battery backup unit had some kind of failure at 3:00 in the afternoon ( I could tell by the timer for my lights) killing all power. Had 3 female black rays and my 24" Chili Red Arowana in the tank. Rays and Aro were alive and breathing heavily. Thankfully I over filtrate with FX5's and was able to swap out some filters and do a large water change.

All were fine this morning.
 
Good save!

I always have my tanks on web cams so i can view them when we are on vacation and i have my sad well trained on how to keep up the tanks. Always have a generator ready also


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scott s said:
No fun.
I need a better back up plan myself. I have a generator, but I have to be there to start/hook it up.
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I have a generator as well but have the same problem - Need to be home to hook it up. I'm working on a backup system that I'll have up and running this weekend. It has now moved to the top of the priority list.

m_class2g said:
good to hear bud. Glad that BD and the rest are doing well!
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Thanks Mike. I'd be devastated if anything happened to him.

vamptrev said:
Good save!

I always have my tanks on web cams so i can view them when we are on vacation and i have my sad well trained on how to keep up the tanks. Always have a generator ready also

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I need to look into one of these. What system are you using?

isde02 said:
Wow...congrats on everyone surviving.
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Thanks
 
That's good everything worked out for you! I just had the power go out last week as a power pole caught on fire and they had to turn the power off to fix it. It was off for a couple hours but it happened before I went to work for midnight shift. I booked off the first couple hours of work and hooked up the generator. Before I went to work the power came back on and I plugged everything back in. Doesn't take long for things to go South when the power goes out for extended periods of time.
 
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