Any thoughts for preparing for a storm

Getting ready to dance with earl any one have any thoughts?....
on converters with power heads ice bags or bottles for temps....???????? any thing else some one done to keep there tank going when power is down. i have a small generator but that is for other house hold needs.

i do have to converters but have never tried them with power heads one is 300 Watts and the other is 750 Watts.

 

get a battery powered air pump...I live in Tampa and know better LOL

 

I am about an hour if that North of the OBX and my biggest concern is losing power and then O2. I have no idea how I can fix this. Anyone with any experience with this?

 

I honestly think your best overall bet would be to get another small generator. With how much $ that is already in your tank, it would be a good investment. But if that is out of the question, I would just keep frozen milk jugs or ice handy. A battery powered air pump would also be good to have.

 

ice,battery air pump,you can also stir the water every so often to help with gas exchange if you can't run your powerheads,and most of all take care of yourself and family,spare food,blankets,water,tp,flashlight,candles etc. I'm watching the weather channel now,so be careful and i hope you guys get missed.

 

First, Good Luck. Hurricane Ike completely trashed my family.... but it all worked out in the end.

Second, odds of you having the luck we did are VERY low. So prepare, but don't stress too much.

Third, Lesson Learned from Hurricane Ike

1) Love your family and value what's important... family. Things are things, they can be replaced. Family is irreplaceable.
2) ..... I could go on about what I learned from Ike, life has a way of teaching you. Motley Fool (fool.com) actually published an article about my lesson learned... but that's not what you asked and a different story completely.

Aquarium Lesson in surviving a storm....

1) Circulation and Oxygenating the water. Nitrates are not going to suddenly explode. Your water chemistry will not suddenly go bad. But oxygen gets consumed. Circulation and gas exchange is the most fundamental need for water life. Get a powerhead moving water and a airstone. That's first. Also, circulation does not need to be continuous.... but 10 minutes on, 50 minutes off will do a lot.

2) Most of your tank would be off in a power outage situation. Thus, very few heat sources. Therefore, your tank will trend to ambient air temperature over time. Odds are that ambient air temp will be >80 degrees. Therefore, zip lock bags willed with ice to try to keep the water temp down would be #2.

I'd do a large water change before the storm hits and have a good supply of pre-made salt water ready for a second water. If you are un-lucky and lose power for a long time, a water change after a few days will dilute any nitrates, etc. and re-oxygenate the water.

Those are the big things that I would have done had I had the chance.... saving my aquarium was the least of my problems...

My prayers will be with you.

Mark

 

+1 I agree

 

Thanks everyone. As for me it's usually nothing but lots of rain, flooding, and maybe power outage for a few hours. We get lucky.

 

Get a small genny just for the aquarium. Ice jugs to keep it cool. My tank was at 85 for about a week one time with no ill affects.

 

I did this when we had a 4 day black out.

Go to lowls and get 3-5 oxygen cylinders (the small red one that fit a blow torch) and get about 6feet of air line tubing and a stone and then take the end off the torch and take the limiting cap out and put the tube over the end and then turn it on as low as you can and put the stone in your tank.

It worked for me for 4days