Danred power failures!! Grrr...

[lilsilkk1112]

Well, the power has been off and on with thunderstorms the past two days. I checked my filter each time to make sure its working.

The last outage must have burned it up (its not in a surge protector). Anyway, I've been going 100 miles per hour to keep things normal in there.

Tell me if I'm doing the right things/did the right things.

1) Yank the old filter, bag the old filter media with some tank water and drop it in a bucket of tank water. Bag is cracked so it can get O2.

2) Put in my backup micro-filter with new cartridge. Shook the filter media on to the new filter and re-bagged the seeded filter.

3) Did a 30% water change to ensure the levels stay where desired.

4) (This is where I am at the moment)
Running to Petsmart (20mins away) to get a new filter, hopefully just like the old, so i can put the seeded filter back in and let it run normally. (Also picking up some live plants for my betta tank).

5) If this all goes well, I'll yank the backup filter, clean it, and store it incase this happens again. I'll also plug the new one into a power strip with surge protector.

6) I'll check my levels the next few days to make sure all goes well.

Sound good? Please let me know. I've never dealt with a crisis like this before...
Thanks all.

 

[Balance]

sounds like your handling it pretty well to me!

hope everything works out!

 

[geKo]

Sounds good heh my power went off for almost 2 days and i did nothing but all my fish lived

Only reason i did nothing was because i had no way to get to the store because i was at my friends house but better safe then sorry i would say get all you can!

 

[lilsilkk1112]

Well, I couldn't get the exact same HOB filter, so my old filter didn't fit into it.

I *did* stick the complete old filter bag behind the new filter bag in the new HOB. Hopefully, this will seed the new filter and keep bacteria in the system...

Think it'll work? I plan on testing water parameters here for a few days to make sure ammonia doesnt start climbing...

Also, dumped two caps of Cycle on the new filter to hopefully help it seed faster. Guess we'll see....

 

[Somonas]

Sounds good to me..
most my power has been off was about 6 hours.. it was around 11pm so there was no lights on anyway, the fish never even kne what happened
the only thing I lost was about 3 hours worth of work on Simcity 4. (actually haven't played it since come to think of it).

I did begin to think about the aquariums after awhile... temps were fine, it was night time so they were "asleep" anyway... bio was ok (so it seems) ever since I didn't do anything extra.. just poured some aquarium water over the media to keep it wet.
I probably lost some biological bacteria in the canisters.... because of lack of o2.. but thats about it so I guess.

now if this happened in the middle of winter I'd probably begin to panic a bit more.