Power Outage Tips

[Kyle McClain]

here are a couple of tips to help shore up your system.

battery powered air pump : this will provide water movement and gas exchange.

Here is a technique I devloped over the last two days to keep the temp in the tank resonable. I took jars ( I used mason jars but anything that is air tight will work) and put very hot water in them. ( This won't work of you have an electric water or stove you have to have gas) I left about 1/4 of the jar with air in it, this allows it to float. you may have to use multiple jars depending on the size of your tank. I managed to keep my 55 at 78 degrees over a 12 hour outage the temp in the house got as low as 60.


Hope this helps

Post any tips you have.

Kyle

[rldavis]

Kyle,

I don't have any tips, but I wanted to comment on your resourcefulness. If our power had gone out all I would have been able to do is PANIC!!! I can tell you that I had plans that if the roads were the worst they've been in years, and if we lost power my butt would be going to Lowe's or Home Depot to get a generator. Screw everything else in the house, didn't care about the fridge, just run the tank off of it. :D That's pretty bad huh?
We've just spent so much time and money, not to mention that we really love that thing....it's like a member of our family now.
Glad to hear that you were able to keep afloat (pardon the pun). Hope everyone else was as lucky as you were.

Take care,
Becky

[DrkShadow]

Great idea Kyle. I could have done that but too late now, I don't have any jars, unless I tossed out all the food out of any jars in the frig. :D

[mobert]

Becky, If the power went out for an extended time, chances are, there will not be any generators left for sale---you'd have to get out there before the crowd.

[DrkShadow]

HD got a bunch in, my parents got one so if I loose power again, I got 5000 watts at my disposal. It works awesome too. Running their gas heat, frig, fw tanks, tv with about 2000 watts to spare :D