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Post by glenoweth on Apr 28, 2011 8:33:01 GMT -6
Bestway to keep fish alive? I'm guessing do daily water changes.... they look fine so far. I have some work ahead of me. We will not have pwr for 5 days atleast.
I hope I can keep them alive that long.
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Post by angel on Apr 28, 2011 10:01:37 GMT -6
Oneyoda just mentioned in All Else that Richard used a generator. Can you get your hands on one? I've moved it to here because it's a technical issue, not a convention issue. You'll get more replies here.
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Post by jon carman on Apr 28, 2011 10:35:38 GMT -6
I would do a generator or battery powered air pumps.
If you do water changes, put the water in slow from high up to oxygenate it.
Good luck
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Post by glenoweth on Apr 28, 2011 20:20:26 GMT -6
Wish I had one. No generater
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Post by mruble on Apr 29, 2011 5:56:15 GMT -6
How many tanks are you looking at? Walmart has battery operated air pumps in the Sporting Goods section.
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Post by madreefer on Apr 29, 2011 8:42:48 GMT -6
I've got about five of those just for emergencies and transporting fish. Two of them kept a 75 gal going for five days.
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Post by ree123 on Apr 29, 2011 10:59:00 GMT -6
Hey Glenoweth.
You have not said how many or sizes of tanks and how heavily stocked all of your tanks are right now. Having experienced this before, I can tell you that with suspended feedings or only sprinkles of flakes, and proper temps being held in an acceptable range, most of your fish should survive for multiple days without power. I would even go as far as saying if your tanks are not overstocked that you just monitor and leave them alone. Obviously a different approach than some of the others have, but in our hobby we often find trial and error is as good a teacher as there is, along with advice from others. keep us posted as to what works for ya. best of luck ! rick
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Post by ree123 on Apr 29, 2011 14:16:22 GMT -6
one more thingi thought of.....i don't know what kind of filters u use, but when the power comes back on u wil want to rinse them since they will b full of dead anaroebic bacteria that was once part of the tank cycle and much of the dead bacterias need to removed from the new cycle when it starts back. don't disturb anything else and don't clean the filters to pure clean. just a good rinse.
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Post by glenoweth on Apr 29, 2011 16:46:54 GMT -6
I have one bat pump runnniny on my 150g . I have 9-33g, 150g, 90g,and 180g. Most worried about the cyprichromis and xenos. Also all filets are unplugged and will be cleaned once I get power back. Fish so far are not stressed. Keeping the fish in feed and in the dark . They are saying no pwr until Tuesday!!!!
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Post by ree123 on May 1, 2011 16:23:31 GMT -6
glenoweth. how goes it ? an update please. we watch the news and see all the devastation and think of u.
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Post by bunnie1978 on May 1, 2011 19:09:23 GMT -6
I hope you're doing ok. I have had fish survive for one whole day with no losses except some eggs. I kept the room closed and dark and no feeding.
I don't know if water changes with tap water are a good idea though... the danger is that the tap water might be saturated with CO2 - which would be counter productive. My tap water is saturated with CO2... if I do a large water change my fish do get a bit stressed from it if I'm not careful. Also, let the temp get down as low as they can tolerate. Cooler water can hold more oxygen.
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Post by glenoweth on May 3, 2011 15:01:22 GMT -6
Ok the update!
We were out of power for 7 days!!!! Just got the power back online 1hr 45 min ago. The time was well spent with Friends, and family all pulling together to make the best of things. I BBqed everyday all day it seemed and we had smoores every night by the camp fire.
Let talk fish now... How I kept everyone of my fish alive without power for 7days, and have had zero loses. I really had to baby the inside cyprichromis tank a bit with very small water changes like 5% every other day (really just enough of a water change to get the slimy build up off the top of the water). I did not feed my fish at all for the 7 days to keep the waste down to a min, and I also covered all my tanks with sheets so the fish would be as inactive as possible. On day 5 I found 1 battery operated Pump at a store that I used in the cyprichromis tank (150g)
Garage tanks, these tanks had Daffodil brichardi in them with firefin comps, and a few odd and end fish. The show tank 180gal has a full colony of Daffodils totaling about 40 mid to adult, and 100-200 fry in the tank. There is also about 30 small firefin comp. in the tank.
All I did of this tank was turn the light out and not feed the fish, it seemed the fish stayed on the bottom of the tank the full time sleeping ,and Today I did a water change and rinsed out the filters. This tank also had no loses.
So if you lose power just stop feeding the fish, and leave them in the dark. =)
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Post by ree123 on May 3, 2011 22:29:38 GMT -6
So glad to hear the updated report. Long week for you all. Glad you are back into the modern world again.
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Post by allierw on May 22, 2011 19:31:49 GMT -6
Good to hear your fish made it through OK. We also had no power for 6.5 days. I didn't feed the fish and put bubblers in the sensitive tanks (my Midas/Red Devil and my Frontosas). We all made it through also. Fish are amazingly resilient! We did end up getting a generator and ran some filters from it as well. I think anyone with a lot of tanks should have some kind of emergency/backup plan.
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