Battery Backup for Nano tank

[Zakary2003]

I'm in Florida and I live in a college dorm building so a generator isn't an option. I just arrived on Campus with my tank yesterday. The tank is a waterbox cube 20 AIO system with a hygger mini wave maker, AI prime 16HD light, and the stock return pump with an unreadable label. Last week my campus was hit by a hurricane that knocked out power for a few days, and it looks like we might have another storm heading our way in the next few weeks. I need a battery backup or uninterrupted power supply for my tank. How do I find out the power draw for my system, specifically my wave maker and return pump? Does anyone have a power backup recommendation? I am also worried about temperature, because I will be forced to leave campus if there is a hurricane hitting and I won't be able to add ice bags like I did the during Idalia last week before I was on campus. Is there anything I can do to help the tank stay cool when I'm not there and there is no power, or do I just have to hope it makes it through until they get HVAC and generators working?

 

[blaxsun]

The only thing you'll want connected to any kind of battery backup is a wavemaker to keep flow going. Depending on what you have, the power draw and the UPS battery, you can get a day or more.

 

[EricR]

Battery powered air pump and air stone might also be good to keep on hand in the event that your powerhead/wavemaker battery runs out (during really long power outage). *probably unlikely but just as a precaution

I have a couple of Penn-Plax B11 pumps and air stones that work fine for emergencies.