Tank Crashed
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prsnlty
Jackie
Oh I am sooooo sorry!!! [emoji24] It was beautiful! I would just move up to the new tank. I know exactly how you feel my 180 crashed from a 6 hr outage.
This past weekend we had an unexpected late winter storm hit Boulder. We received 3.5 ft of snow, and our power was out for almost 48 hours. I lost a pair of Picasso clownfish, Yasha Goby, Yellow Pistol Shrimp, Fire Shrimp, and all of my corals. I was about to upgrade to a bigger tank next week, and now I have to start all over again. Here are a couple before and after pictures.
mlivvy
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man that sucks!.. on your new build add some backup power. I live in florida where we constantly lose power and i've been out of power for almost 2 days. My mp10, with a modified belking backup, has saved my tank on a few occasions. Good luck on the rebuild!
Shaun Sweeney
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I'm heating my 400 gall0n system with hot water from my solar hot water reservoir. Don't suppose you have hot water heat in the house?
Flippers4pups
Fins up since 1993
That's sucks. Hang in there and you'll bounce back!
I bought a power inverter as a back up for my tank. You never know when things will go bad.
I bought a power inverter as a back up for my tank. You never know when things will go bad.
Sorry for your loss, I went through the same thing during Hurricane Sandy. Now I use an icecap battery backup for circulation and a small 800w generator to run the heater and power heads if power is out for more than a couple hours
Yellowjacket
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So sorry to hear about your loss. A battery pack might not last 48 hours especially if running more than a few pumps, heater and an a skimmer. I bit the bullet 5 years ago and installed a Generac whole house generator hooked up to a natural gas pipe line. It works great and gives me a great amount of peace of mind.
Cary Hover
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Gas powered 5000W generator from harbor freight works well. as long as you know how to wire it into your panel. don't forget to throw main breaker off first then power it up. should light most of house and definitely your whole tank.
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edrada_a
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No, we don't. The house is heated by propane.
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edrada_a
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No I'm not. What's MASC?
Cherub
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The local marine/aquarium club here in Denver. We have members all over the state though. I believe we have a small presence here on R2R but the main forum page is this. http://www.marinecolorado.org/?_=1464310175050
join it, it's free to join the forum like here. we have monthly meetings, frag swaps, vendors etc.
Shaun Sweeney
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There are two ways you could heat your fish tank with propane. One is a real Rube Goldberg and involves using the drain tap from the hot water tank. The other is a small dedicated apartment hot water tank. In both cases you need to build heat exchange(s) which sit in your tank system somewhere like the sump. I built mine out of PVC. You need a small circulating pump and an electric valve that is controlled by your Neptune system. If you're going to go to all the bother of building it, you might as well build a cooling circuit using an old car radiator which will use up one more electric valve. One valve will be "normally on" and the other "normally off". The pump runs continuously and is either circulating heat from the hot water system or running thru the car radiator. My system keeps tank temp within 0.8 of a degree summer or winter. Use your fish tank heaters as backup and have them set slightly lower than your hot water system allows the temp. to drop to.
needbiggertanks
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dang. Sorry
