How Long Can a 150g last with no Power?

[Wandering Albatross]

Good afternoon all, we had a minor outage today, and it made me think about when they get more serious during the winter months. I was wondering if anyone had a rough idea of how long I’d have in the future to turn on my generator before things start to suffer?

Current stock:
28 small (1-3”) fish
3 garden eels
2 4” fish
Clam
Scallop
Couple shrimp
Assorted snails
Couple lps

 

[bluemon]

Good afternoon all, we had a minor outage today, and it made me think about when they get more serious during the winter months. I was wondering if anyone had a rough idea of how long I’d have in the future to turn on my generator before things start to suffer?

Current stock:
28 small (1-3”) fish
3 garden eels
2 4” fish
Clam
Scallop
Couple shrimp
Assorted snails
Couple lps

Not long. The dissolved oxygen will drop quite fast.

Maybe 2-3 hours at most?

 

[Wandering Albatross]

Not long. The dissolved oxygen will drop quite fast.

Maybe 2-3 hours at most?

Would another 3 medium sized fish change that by much? Coral would have minimal impact by comparison right? How low can the temp drop before they start to suffer, and for roughly how long?

 

[Baylott224]

Get this anker power bank like ido just run the pumps on an outage or a bigger one just your pumps should run for about 5 hours on this one the one I have or get the 500$ double power https://a.co/d/41Kp9k8

 

[Baylott224]

It's a litilthium generator I just charge it and keep it charged for emergency

 

[Baylott224]

The one I got was about 299 they much cheaper off brands models on Amazon just look

 

[Baylott224]

Saved my tank in 5 of 6 hour outage u do not need to. Run the heaters unless your house is like 60 degrees or lower

 

[Baylott224]

If the power does come. Back on for a bit I suggest charging right away incase another comes

 

[Wandering Albatross]

Get this anker power bank like ido just run the pumps on an outage or a bigger one just your pumps should run for about 5 hours on this one the one I have or get the 500$ double power https://a.co/d/41Kp9k8

Can I run the heaters off this if needed? In this kind of short term emergency I'd run one wavemaker pointed at the surface on 100%, the return pump, and the heaters if it's winter. The heaters are 2 innovative marine helio 350s. Does this have an auto-on option to where it could plug into a power strip and fire up on its own if the power source fails, or is it manual? I have a gas generator on the deck for longer outages when needed, but I'm looking for something that'll take a couple hours here and there in a pinch.

 

[Baylott224]

No. Auto on get the bigger one this one if you want to run it but there is app control I don't now if it will work while plugged in to the wall and but it should it has a very fast charge in one hour function even if you get alittle power back on it could recharged quick it's not like a back up where it will turn on auto but all. Of those would only run your setup for about an hour and they suck



Get this one if you want to run heaters too https://a.co/d/1HobahE it's usually 799 but on sale for 500

 

[Baylott224]

Acually I think you could plug the solix into the wall permanently and plug your stuff into the soli and the power goes out it would actually switch too the battery. I looked it up look up how to use anker soli while charging indefinitely

 

[Baylott224]

Then you could get a cheap 300 small gas generator for anything longer than 8hours

 

[Baylott224]

I have the ecoflow brands which are a bit betterhttps://a.co/d/9BF51o0

Trust me it's worth it not too lose your tank because just one hour the oxygen is gone

 

[Baylott224]

From the manuel:The product supports emergency power supply (EPS). Please connect the grid power to the AC input port of the product through an AC cable, then power your device through the AC output port of the product (as figure below).


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AC power will come from the grid instead of the power station in this situation (bypass mode). In case of a sudden blackout, the product can automatically switch to battery-powered supply mode within 30ms.

As a basic UPS feature, it does not support 0ms switching. Please do not connect the product to any device that requires 0ms UPS (such as data servers and workstations). Please test and confirm the compatibility before using the product.

It's recommended that you power only one device (with maximum power <1600W for high voltage areas and 1000W for low voltage areas) at a time and avoid using multiple appliances at the same time to avoid triggering overload protection. EcoFlow takes no responsibility for any device failure or data loss caused by failure to follow instructions.

 

[Baylott224]

Just plug your everything that is vital for life support into the ecoflow and and plug that into the wall or a solar panel

 

[Baylott224]

You can power more than one device as long as you do g go past like 900 watts you can plug a bunch of stuff they just say that so you don't overload . But it's not a 0ms switching for computers it will lose power for 30ms before it switches to battery

 

[Baylott224]

Mine is 900 watt max but the bigger one is 1800 watt max

 

[bluemon]

Mine is 900 watt max but the bigger one is 1800 watt max

Unrelated but you should refrain from posting multiple back to back comments.

You can’t treat a thread like a personal notebook and comment 8 comments back to back.

I suggest using the edit feature on your previous comments

 

[Baylott224]

Oh sorry I'd would not let me


Edit * just figured out how in the app I could not edit but on the site I can

 

[n2585722]

I had rolling blackouts a few years ago that lasted for a week. The power was out 50% of the time. Then longest off period was 4 hours. The only thing that runs when the power is off on mine is the MP10's and then they run at 6% speed. It was also below 32 degrees the whole time. so the tank did get just below 70 degrees by the end of the blackouts. It took about 2 days to get back up to 76 degrees once power was completely restored. I did not loose any fish or corals from that event. I now have backups on my controllers, cable modem and router. I still only run just the MP10's during an outage but there is more backup power available to them now. Heaters would be hard to supply power for during a power outage since you are in an emergency mode and not sure how long power will be off. It is best to conserve all you can to keep the flow going in the tank. If I wanted to add something else it would be the return pump if you have one that will run on DC power.