My power went out, what do I do!

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At around 10 oclock this morning the transformer outside my house blew up, we've been without power for 6 hours now. I don't know how soon it will be back up, about how long do I have until drastic measures need to be taken?

The temperature on both my aquariums is around 76, dropped from 80 this morning. I have a 75 gal with small gars, a hujeta, knifefish, oscar and a senegal, and a 15 gal community tank with various livebearers and tetras. I've already lost my pregnant swordtail in the last few hours...

What can I do? And when my power comes back on, are there any precautions I should take when getting the filters back running? I've never had this happen before, I'm really worried, please help!
 
Get air in the tanks asap fill a container with air and squeeze it below water level! as for the temp nothing to worry about yet worst case take out 5 gallons and add 5 gallons of warm water!
 
Put the media in the tank. Without flow it is going to be a huge mess when the power finally comes back on.
 
Well, I have a bunch of live plants so I figured that should help with the air a bit too. I'm gonna take out 5 gallons, and add 5 more, but if my power isn't on throughout the night, how often should I keep doing this?

When should I worry about the temperature?

Sorry I don't know what you mean by put the media in the tank, can you elaborate?
 
get a piece of garden hose or your vacuum hose and start a syphon that goes from one end of the tank to the other to cause water movement.Its tricky to do but it can work or......get some bait bubblers from walmart and a car battery to run it.It will run for a super long time before it kills the battery.or if you have a car and the tank is near the window you could get a converter from your car battery to electric and just run one filter or so but that could be expensive after a while or go get a generator and youll be able to run all kinds of stuff-still will need gas though.All of this really sucks though.Its money that you shouldn't have to spend but ya gotta do what you gotta do.Got a home depot near your house?They rent generators.in any case,good luck
 
So it turned out my uncle had this battery powered generator thing. I was able to keep my filter and heater running in my big aquarium. :)

Thanks for your help guys, now I know exactly what to do next time this happens.
 
During huricane Hugo here in Charlotte NC back in the late 80's, we had lost power for 14 days. I was in high school at the time but dad was running a 75 gallon salt water setup w/undergravel air pump filtration. He had to drive the truck up to the window and power the air pumps every so often from that I remember...lol
 
Check out your local petstore and pick up a few battery powered air pumps - super cheap and a headache saver for the future.
 
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