power out (back on)

[LoveTheFishies]

Battery powered "bait" aerators.  I used one taking fish to college back in the day.  24 hours between tanks.

[Maize-N-Blue-D]

How are you getting water for the WC's,  you might want to just take the hose and let it pour into the tank from a foot above the tank and let it infuse some air into the tanks,  at this point I wouldn't be worried about water on the floor, you need to save the fish....

Maybe one hose to take water out and the other to put it in...

Sorry to hear about this...I hope you could save as many as you can !    GOOD LUCK !

[djlamonica]

Power is back loses still coming in also strange development.  Look at this picture this developed at a crazy rate while the power was out.

[four_by_ken]

Fungus?

[Maize-N-Blue-D]

http://www.fishlore.com/aquariummagazine/nov07/fish-fungus.htm

[four_by_ken]

http://www.fishlore.com/aquariummagazine/nov07/fish-fungus.htm

I know what fish fungus is... but THAT much THAT fast?

[djlamonica]

On MFK it says you can treat with mardel, I have that but it says nothing about treating fungus on the bottle.

[Ron]

So how many hours was the power out?

[theoryguru]

Sorry to hear about your loss...
 

[Regalblue]

Woah!!!  I've lost power for days & not had a single fish die.
This is really shitty Dan

[Super Turtleman]

So how many hours was the power out?

I also wanna know. That seems like a lot of losses for a few hours...

[Marty]

Yeah, when my power was out during the major blackout we had in 2003, my power was out for two days and I didn't lose a single fish.  All I did was swish the water around every few hours and kept the door to my fishroom closed as much as possible (just because my basement was a little cooler).  I suspect something else is to blame here, but it's hard to say what.  Here's a couple of things that I can think of that might be part of what the problem was:

Was the water significantly colder that you did water changes with?  Could've stressed your fish

Was there a recent water main break?  Sometimes they compensate for the break by adding additional chemicals to the water which can kill your fish

Were your tanks overstocked?  Too many fish without enough oxygen

Did your tank temps drop significantly?  Could've stressed your fish

How recently before the power was shut down did you do water changes?  If it has been awhile, perhaps the water conditions worsened faster than usual once the filtration/air was cut off to the tank.   Were they large water changes?  Perhaps you removed too much beneficial bacteria and had an ammonia spike.

[Steve]

Well again, HELLOOOOOOO have genny will help, whatever though

[Marty]

His power is back on.

[Steve]

I know it's back, just sayin, when I lost my power 3-4 weeks ago, I offered the genny I bought to anyone here, so just bugs me when I see someone talk about no power when I am more then willing to help is all. Because I know how bad it sucks to have no power. I'm happy to help ya know, thats all.