No electricity for 5 days

[LadyTang2]

@brandon429
I really want to offer some constructive criticism about the way you write. It's a little harsh but I don't know how else to say it and you seem totally unaware. I'll just add I believe you're in the US and fluent in English.

You consistently use needlessly complicated language, use words incorrectly, and outright make up terms. You'll write many paragraphs, some of which irrelevant to the thread, for what needs 2 sentences. We all make mistakes and typos, heck I made a few typos in my last post, but you write a lot of extremely long and confusing posts. Of course sometimes complex problems require complex explanations but, when we can, we should try to help people by summarizing what they can do clearly and concisely.

Some examples from today

****What if power is not back yet, couple days expected****
can’t rip clean if all power is off, pre CPR preps:


many posts exist to show water pouring, heating and pouring back saltwater

"Can't rip clean" what?
The first step is "water pouring"?

there is a miniature relocation step you must time in order to prevent a complete crash of all animals. Moving live rock and circulation and clean water and remaining animals into a bucket is key to stopping or slowing the loss cascading the main tank is going to be hyperdriving since its got a metric ton of organics, and dying hangers-on. That won’t be in the tote.

What is "miniature" about this step?
"stopping or slowing the loss cascading the main tank is going to be hyperdriving" ? Did you proofread this?

consider lifting out live rock and taking remaining fish and corals into a tote, warmed creatively

"warmed creatively"? We're discussing a power outage, now I can think of a few possible ways but that's not the point, you should summarize how we warm creatively. That's like one of the major questions at hand.

 

[BradB]

Water motion is by far the biggest issue with power loss. Ocean animals have no mechanism to deal with lack of oxygen, such as breathing at the top like freshwater fish, as they never need it in nature. Lack of oxygen kills quickly, and dead animals fuel bacteria that strip any remaining oxygen.

I've had my tank get to 60F before realizing I had a heater failure (multiple heaters actually). Tank looked mostly normal, except none of my fish were visible. Coral had poor extension, but not to the point you'd notice without looking. Once the temp came back up, everyone swam out like nothing happened - 0 losses, 0 testable water quality changes. I also talked with an LFS owner who had a shipment come in well below that when a wholesaler forgot heat packs in the winter. There were some losses, but far fewer than other shipments they got on hot days in the summer.

After 5 days without light, you probably will lose some coral. You will do better to go half lighting or less on the first day, rather than suddenly bleaching everything out.

I wouldn't waist time testing water quality. You can do anything about it, so measuring doesn't help. Getting sleep helps, increasing water motion (either via generator or manually) helps.

I'd make sure my skimmer was clean and ready for a heavy load, and I was set to do water changes once the power comes back. But as long as your water is sitting still, this is probably less of an issue than you fear.

 

[ca1ore]

light modulated bleach protection

FWIW for those of us that have had the displeasure of a major temperature event, SPS typically react by spitting their zooanthelle (which is what bleaching is) and are left with no protection against high light levels. Unless you significantly reduce your regular light levels they will die. Some may die regardless, but other will be salvageable.

Ironically, when I had my boiler incident and the tank dropped into the low 60s the one invert that shook it off like nothing was my magnifica anemone .... an animal generally reputed to be sensitive and difficult to maintain. Go figure.....

 

[brandon429]

Thank you for that input. We had to discover it the hard way, some bleached home moves

was really stumping because they were rinsing clean we knew no ammonia or bed toxicity was in play and then we considered ripping out all organic stores immediately probably needs a tradeoff somewhere- so we started with lights (intensity / power and a preference for bluer vs white) and bleached no more...

 

[brandon429]

@LadyTang2 would prefer to see your prior work in saving tanks mid loss as this title implied vs the grading lesson. That being said, every grade ever rec’d reflected those same sentiments heh so the pattern could be well set.


you can see from the link provided to you no syntax is holding back discussion where the work is wanted. I wasnt able to read anything from your input regarding helping reef tanks in distress...my recommend is get some work on file and then how you write won’t matter the link patterns w do the speaking.

anything typed here was a sincere offer to help a reef I viewed as last stage salvageable lol then bam, full on normal reef pics. Should the time come that the Ops reef is in distress at least a few options are covered.

 

[redeyejedi]

"warmed creatively"?

By making a friction fire and warming livestock???