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you have any corals? If so, better heating the whole tank otherwise, yeah put in bucket with a bubbler...and slowly (maybe drip?) the hot water in....good luck. My power came back on last night at 11......where you located?
Only have a leather at the moment. I can remove it too if needed. I’m located in the San Fernando area. Power expected in the next 24 hours hopefully. Just really trying to pull through.
 
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Hot water into plastic water bottles is the way to go, if you have operable gas stove. Was without power all yesterday and previous night (came back late last night) and this is what I was doing.

Caveat, note it's important to have an air stone or pump moving water while hot water bottles are floating to be effective, and filling them mostly full so they are mostly submerged gets you the most efficiency.

I keep my tanks around 78 so I targeted keeping them above 73, so far so good.

Sorry to hear about your losses so far - do you have power yet?
Sadly power isn’t back yet. Tried the water bottles but the water in the tank seems to turn in cold so quickly. I’m removing tank water and boiling it and slowly adding it back in to raise the temp. It’s been a full 24 hours since the power went out. Don’t know how much longer it will be out the city said it should be back within 24 hours
 

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Might try some blankets at the moment I’m trying to raise the temp to at least 70
Best strategy for water is to keep refilling them - I was putting about 1 or 1.5L bottles into my 20gal, in 10 min with some flow they would equilibrate and raise temp by about 0.8-1F.

Cycle with 2 pots - ~180F water in Pot A into a few water bottles, float in tank,

Start heating water in Pot B, once it's hot (or 10 min later) take all the water bottles, dump them into Pot A, refill from Pot B, repeat

This is fast way to raise a couple degrees.

Like others said oxygen and mixing is the priority, temp is secondary until you start getting cold.
 

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Only have a leather at the moment. I can remove it too if needed. I’m located in the San Fernando area. Power expected in the next 24 hours hopefully. Just really trying to pull through.
I'm in Granada Hills (San Fer Mission and Haskell area).....I can hold the fish for you if you want.....
 

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Sadly power isn’t back yet. Tried the water bottles but the water in the tank seems to turn in cold so quickly. I’m removing tank water and boiling it and slowly adding it back in to raise the temp. It’s been a full 24 hours since the power went out. Don’t know how much longer it will be out the city said it should be back within 24 hours
"I’m removing tank water and boiling it and slowly adding it back in to raise the temp."
Thats the best way.....water bottles aren't efficient
 
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I'm in Granada Hills (San Fer Mission and Haskell area).....I can hold the fish for you if you want.....
I really appreciate that. In your opinion should I continue raising temp or hand it over? I just want the best for the fish as I know it is under a lot of stress.
 

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I really appreciate that. In your opinion should I continue raising temp or hand it over? I just want the best for the fish as I know it is under a lot of stress.
IMO...I would continue to raise temp, with bubbler in bucket....check with DWP Power Outage in your area (I didnt see any in San Fer...but they should have a time for service restoration...mine was 10:30 PM last night on the site, but can back on at 10:00....
I usually get home at 7:30pm.....I will PM you my cell in case you decide to let me baby sit them.....
 
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IMO...I would continue to raise temp, with bubbler in bucket....check with DWP Power Outage in your area (I didnt see any in San Fer...but they should have a time for service restoration...mine was 10:30 PM last night on the site, but can back on at 10:00....
I usually get home at 7:30pm.....I will PM you my cell in case you decide to let me baby sit them.....
Sounds good I will keep you updated. For now I’m gonna move it into a bucket with the air stone. Again I really appreciate the help!
 
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Any updates? I am invested in this, I live in Florida and I am wondering how I will do in a Hurricane/ power outage.
Have some good news and some bad news. Bad news is all of my snails died except my colony of 5 turbos. Those snails really are some fighters. Same with my 4 crabs. Good news is my manderin is still pushing through. It amazes me that it’s still alive honestly. I added it back to the main display yesterday morning and since then it’s just moved around once in a while but it would just lay in one spot breathing. Every time I go to check on it I get some anxiety about if I will find it alive or not. Woke up today expecting the worst and to my surprise it came out from under the rock and was just in the back of the tank breathing as it did before. I did notice there was a bit of an ammonia spike. I feel it was due to the amount of deaths an over a short period of time. If I were to offer you any advice it would be to be prepared for the worst. Make sure you have an oxygen and heat backup. I will keep you updated on how the manderin does!
 

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glad you didn’t have a total tank wipe. I’m in the Thousand Oaks area and power was out from Wednesday morning 7:30am until last night at 8pm… I bought a small 2350w generator this summer and wow did it come in key … my 290 is pretty full of fish and corals … I have small battery backup systems for shorter outages but there’s no way my fish and other critters would have made three days … I was able to run the whole tank, refrigerator, and TV + Blu-ray player … just filling the tank every 6 to 8 hours … during the day with lights on it for sure ran the generator a little harder.. but all in all it worked really well..
Here’s a URL for the generator:

I went through a little less than 10gals of gas since 9am on Wednesday.. it’s good to have a a couple 5G jugs of regular 87 with some stable in it..


Edit: I wonder how many tanks went up with all these houses in LA … my god. My heart goes out to everyone.
 
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If you expect a longer outage, like longer than a day, you could pick up a cheap inverter and car battery from Walmart / harbor freight to run the return or heaters if it’s getting cold.
Could you expand information on what an inverter is and how it works please. For us non electrician types.
 

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Could you expand information on what an inverter is and how it works please. For us non electrician types.
No electrician here either :)

It’s a device that converts DC current to AC current basically.

Will look similar to this:
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I’m sure real electricians on the forum can chime in. The more efficient, more power capable, or how clean the power is will influence price.

But in a pinch you can simply connect a car battery to it to run a circulation pump or bubbler.
 

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Home solar plant is quite common solution here in EU. I have a 10kWp panels + 12kWh battery and even now during winter it would hold 250 gallon tank running for a week or so - even with the lights on.
 

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No electrician here either :)

It’s a device that converts DC current to AC current basically.

Will look similar to this:
IMG_0322.jpeg


I’m sure real electricians on the forum can chime in. The more efficient, more power capable, or how clean the power is will influence price.

But in a pinch you can simply connect a car battery to it to run a circulation pump or bubbler.
Thank you!
 

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