Rolling Blackouts
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Oldreefer44
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IME it is about oxygen and temperature. If you have a heavy bio-load then the oxygenation becomes all that more important.
Charley75
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Not sure how long…90 gallon mixed reef. Kinda medium stocked. I can run the pump and a fan from my truck…..if temp starts climbing I have some frozen water bottles I plan on just floating in the sump.
Uncle99
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Perfect, do what you can.
Some of my tangs started to be listful around the 6 hour mark in my 180 in still waters however, with just one air stone, I gone 15 hours without any visible effect on my fish.
For me, this is the longest black out I’ve dealt with.
Warmer waters not idea for oxygenation, but keep that flow going in any way possible.
I'm not just saying this because I'm greedy for rip clean examples
It's because fact: an organically loaded/ common reef tank with waste and clouding mess all in the sand will crash faster during a power outage than a laser clean reef will, for sure, am positive
A pre rip clean system is absolutely full up on extra bacteria and substrate waste such that oxygen competition against fish is a really serious hidden loss cause
Some crashes during heating/ no flow events are sustained new invasions. The tipping point is reached when lots of excess waste formerly in balance gets super heated + stilled current and after restoring flow the invasion is now set in (cyano, severe gha etc)
I just rip cleaned my nano so clean a dentist would take note of detail, because if power goes out here I want the best chance for my reef
Guess how we used to assess chemical and biological oxygen demand and waste chemical conversion rates in beef packing plant water effluent: heating the samples beyond steady state in an incubator. Heat is a massive driver of change in aquatic systems
Yall need to be cleaning those reef sandbeds exceptionally well and then if no power outage happens, you're left with a very clean reef.
Backflush cleaning your entire reef via disassembly cleaning/ a rip clean makes your tank the strongest it can be against systemic insult from these events
Merely cleaning via siphon won't do. A dentist doesn't just mouthwash you and have you exit. You get worked over, pain lol, detailing. That's how clean a rip clean is
It's because fact: an organically loaded/ common reef tank with waste and clouding mess all in the sand will crash faster during a power outage than a laser clean reef will, for sure, am positive
A pre rip clean system is absolutely full up on extra bacteria and substrate waste such that oxygen competition against fish is a really serious hidden loss cause
Some crashes during heating/ no flow events are sustained new invasions. The tipping point is reached when lots of excess waste formerly in balance gets super heated + stilled current and after restoring flow the invasion is now set in (cyano, severe gha etc)
I just rip cleaned my nano so clean a dentist would take note of detail, because if power goes out here I want the best chance for my reef
Guess how we used to assess chemical and biological oxygen demand and waste chemical conversion rates in beef packing plant water effluent: heating the samples beyond steady state in an incubator. Heat is a massive driver of change in aquatic systems
Yall need to be cleaning those reef sandbeds exceptionally well and then if no power outage happens, you're left with a very clean reef.
Backflush cleaning your entire reef via disassembly cleaning/ a rip clean makes your tank the strongest it can be against systemic insult from these events
Merely cleaning via siphon won't do. A dentist doesn't just mouthwash you and have you exit. You get worked over, pain lol, detailing. That's how clean a rip clean is
jabberwock
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Also, get a couple battery powered bubblers from the local outdoors store. Save your truck battery.
