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So sorry for your loss. Yes, lack of water circulation is deadly pretty fast with a high fish load (bio-load). And the sad thing is once one fish goes so does the water quality further beyond dissolved oxygen depletion. So the cheapest contigency I had is battery-powered, air bubblers.

The next critical thing is temperature. Again sorry for your loss and hope everything else continues to recover and thrive again.

Sounds like you may have been lucky the leak didn't cause a spark or a fire. There's a wicked video online I think from UL of a christmas tree catching fire and how quickly the fire engulfed the entire room. Thankfully, that didn't happen but still I know of some people who buy an extra pump and keep on hand for instances like that.

Renee, are you located up more near the Redding area as I've seen more of your posts on the RARE forum?

-Chris