12/20/12 Reef Apocalypse

[VPOOL13]

I live in Northwest Ohio and we had some strong winds last night. And it knocked out the power for almost 2 hours. I stirred the water every 15 min trying to keep things moving. I know there is battery back up systems but I think those are little expensive. Is there anything else I can do such as keeping the heat level from dropping? Thanks.

 

[jcdeng]

you can
1. wrap a blanket around the tank, and if you have heat packs handy, but them inbetween the blanket and the tank.
2. heat up RODI water on stove to boil and put it in a bottle and float it in tank or scope up some tank water and heat it up but not to boiling, just warm, and pour it back to the tank

Hope your tank is ok

 

[Reef Pets]

Hopefully your power came back on! We are in Central Ohio and we lost power for about 3 hours last night.

 

[revhtree Verified Admin]

It is great to have a generator. It saved me already when we had tornado's come through our area.

 

[VPOOL13]

Alright thanks guys! Hopefully I won't have to use them. And yes the power is back on.

 

[revhtree Verified Admin]

Glad to hear!