Wild fire

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Idk if this belongs in this thread, but I am currently learning a rough lesson. Right now all 5 of my tanks are going to be a total lost. At 230 Wednesday we lost power at my house due to the Butte fire in California. I was able to do small water changes until Thursday at 1 in the after noon we had to evacuate the home. It is now Saturday and I have yet to be able to access my house my biggest fear is lack of o2 and heat due the house being all closed up. I'm pretty sure I lost all 30 of my mbunas, my breading oscars, hybrid angles, and other small fish. My only hope is my common and rhino plecos will some how make it but every day takes that away. All other pets and family are safe at our evac site, but I can't help but feel terrible about my fish. I will set up the tanks again if the house is still there and one thing I'm doing different is battery back up air pumps. I feel like more fish would have a shot at making it if I had one for every tank.

Thanks again for reading this, once again idk if it's the right place to post but I need to tell some one or people who understand how people with tanks are.
 
fast mover, while I hope your fish are ok, if they all you lose, thank what ever god you be leave in. I am from cali and some of those fires move extremely fast, last i heard 2 thousand acre an hour ATM and 0% contained.
 
Hello; I have lost tanks of fish in the past. Not from what you are going thru, but from power being off. One thing I have done that helped during the last multi-day power down peroid is to go to very light stocking.

I understand the desire to have a lot of fish in a tank. The current filters, pumps, water change practices and so on allow us to run heavy stocking. I have run tanks that way. The problem comes when the electricity is off for a while. Some tanks can only last a few hours.

My power was off nearly four days a while back. I did not lose a single fish. My tanks were lightly stocked. The only thing I did was no feeding at all.

Battery powered bubblers can be an aid for a while. If the money is available a backup generator.

In a fire situation there likely is little to nothing to be done. I hope your home is spared. I saw news this evening about the California fires. many ahve already lost everything.

Good luck
 
I was allowed back to my house last night. I still can't believe what I saw. I only lost 3 mbuna all other fish and tanks were looking a little haggard but every one was swimming. I am still amazed. I was up till 1 am doing water changes and slowing re acclimating fish to the fresh clean water. All t.he fish quickly got there color back and behaving normally. I wan't to thank you all for your kind words and advice.
 
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