36 hours w/o power

jerky1280

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Nov 12, 2002
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The power went off at my school around noon on Thursday, and didn't come back on until Friday around midnight. My two tanks are:

35 gallon:
1 4" Red Eared Slider (turtle)
1 4" Rainbow Shark
2 3" Gold Gouramis
2 3" chinese algae eaters

10 gallon:
1 3" goldfish
1 2" molly
4 2" swordtails
2 1" cories

I started out by covering both tanks with blankets. Every couple of hours I had to change some water with hot water to keep them warm. Through the night, the 35 gallon got really cold (70F); my turtle was very sluggish (wouldn't swim, just hung onto things), and the fish were kindof lethargic as well.

I heard the power might be out all weekend, so I took the algae eaters and gouramis, put them into the 10 gallon, and put the turtle into a 2-gallon rubbermail. After hours of searching, the shark was no where to be seen; I solemly counted him (my favorite fish) off as a loss, and started to move everything. With some help, I lugged it all to where they had power. The whole time, kept the 10-gallon covered completely - the gouramis have a tendency towards aggression; I hoped they wouldn't decide to attack everything in the now-overstocked 10-gallon.

Saturday morning the power was back on, so I brought everything back - loss, one swordtail, one rainbow shark. Got the 35-gallon warming back up, and put the fish and turtle back in. However, I go to change the water this morning, and lo and behold, who is swimming around but my rainbow shark! He somehow found an incredible place to hide, and was able to survive in 65F water for over a day!

So, with the loss of one swordtail, I managed to pull almost all of my fish through this power outage. Makes me wish I could afford some kind of backup power, but oh well.
 

jerky1280

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Update!

My girlfriend, hearing about what happened, went out to petco and bought me a swordtail to replace the one that died, and bought two more cories to go in the 10 gallon, because she'd heard me say that they like to live in groups! She's wonderful!
 

cholula

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Oct 22, 2002
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glad you got a happy ending.....

While driving home yesterday police
were directing traffic etc.... the power
was out. But buy the time I stepped
into my house it was back on.....
One Whisper and one emp 400 had
not started back up.....
(whisper is quick fix, swap out emp
with another, then do a tear down)....

I even have a small UPS on them, but
it must have been for awhile because
the UPS was completely dead....

Oh well, it happens, but I bought a
gas powered electric generator for
hurricanes and etc....
 

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