bkhunt
Well-Known Member
Saturday afternoon to Sunday morning we lost power for 19 hours while I was at work for 24 hours. I do have a generator that my kind neighbor tried to start for, but the pull cord broke on so he couldn't get it going. The power company initially said 2 hours but kept pushing that back and it turned into 19 hours.
I lost 18 fish between my 3 tanks unfortunately and had 13 survive which were all the smaller fish for the most part. I was able to find a good portion of the dead fish but not all. I am sure my serpent star is full as I had to pull it off of a tang it was thinking it was big enough to eat. Corals took a smaller hit losing a handful of SPS with other SPS losing a lot of color. The LPS and soft corals all looked like crap but seemed to be doing better as the tanks warmed back up. I am most heartbroken over losing 3 of my favorite tangs, pre-ban Hawaiian Yellow Tang and Yellow Eye Kole plus my Desjardini Tang that I had since it was half dollar size fully open.
The tanks got down to 62* and had no water movement unfortunately. When i got home the tanks were "milky" looking. I pulled out the carbon reactor and got that running in hopes of sucking up what ever had been in the water. I am assuming it is possibly a bacteria die off. I did not have any salt water made as I had just done my water change 2 days ago so i could not do a water change. I work another 24 hours today so i can't do water change today. As soon as I get home tomorrow I am going to do a 40-gallon water change.
My question is: What else does everyone recommend to do?
I am going to order a few D battery operated air pumps that can be put in service if generator would ever break again. I think if I had at least had oxygen bubbling in the tanks I would have had a better outcome. Going to go with battery over rechargeables because someone or I can just swap batteries as needed.
I lost 18 fish between my 3 tanks unfortunately and had 13 survive which were all the smaller fish for the most part. I was able to find a good portion of the dead fish but not all. I am sure my serpent star is full as I had to pull it off of a tang it was thinking it was big enough to eat. Corals took a smaller hit losing a handful of SPS with other SPS losing a lot of color. The LPS and soft corals all looked like crap but seemed to be doing better as the tanks warmed back up. I am most heartbroken over losing 3 of my favorite tangs, pre-ban Hawaiian Yellow Tang and Yellow Eye Kole plus my Desjardini Tang that I had since it was half dollar size fully open.
The tanks got down to 62* and had no water movement unfortunately. When i got home the tanks were "milky" looking. I pulled out the carbon reactor and got that running in hopes of sucking up what ever had been in the water. I am assuming it is possibly a bacteria die off. I did not have any salt water made as I had just done my water change 2 days ago so i could not do a water change. I work another 24 hours today so i can't do water change today. As soon as I get home tomorrow I am going to do a 40-gallon water change.
My question is: What else does everyone recommend to do?
I am going to order a few D battery operated air pumps that can be put in service if generator would ever break again. I think if I had at least had oxygen bubbling in the tanks I would have had a better outcome. Going to go with battery over rechargeables because someone or I can just swap batteries as needed.
