Help! no electricity for 24 hrs!!

[trigger05]

I was notified by my power company that i will not have electricity for 24 hrs. I think that this is too long for my reeef to go on with out electricity. I dont have an electric generator. What do you guys recomend i do??

[faded1004]

make sure to get battery air pump and get soem bubbles in teh tank...

may be a larger battery backup and run a smal pump? get a car battery and buy a cheap dc to ac converter?

[bromion]

Where and when? Someone may be able to bring you a generator to borrow. I can let you borrow battery-operated air pumps.

[coast2coast7390]

bromion

some one should be able to lend/rent you one...just make sure that you ariate the water...and agitate the surface...

[anthias_lover]

Go to Home Depot and rent a generator.

[coast2coast7390]

i didnt know that you could rent them from there

[xoshagsox]

Certain home depots have heavy duty tools that you can rent per day. You should call in and see if the home depot near you is one of them.

[flat broke]

Considering what you'll pay to rent a gen from HD, you can go to most Kragens, Pepboys, and Harbor freight locations and pick up a noisy 850watt RMS 1000watt peak 2 stroke generator when they're on sale for $99.

We're not talking a nice little Honda deal here, but a cheap direct from China 2 stroke deal that will be noisy, need frequent fill ups, etc. But in a disaster situation, or to power a good portion of your tank, they're cheap insurance.

Chris

[trigger05]

Well i still have time, the repairs are scheduled for the 17. Im thinking of getting the battery powered air pumps. I think it would get too cold, so i am thinking of floating some 2 litter soda bottles filled with hot water. Luckily i will be home on that day so i can monitor my tank through out the day.

[sps_addict]

When I had a scheduled power outage for 24 hours I ran a generator on my tank and bought a $150 UPS for my frag system. I put the koralia 4 powerhead on the ups by itself and it ran the whole power outage + had 4 hours left on the power supply (frag tank is 110 gallons).

SO I HIGHLY RECOMMEND AN UPS AND A KORALIA 4 OR TUNZE NANO 6045 FOR POWEROUTAGES

That's just me though. Good flow and great price.

Note though that the wattage usage on the Koralia 4 dropped to about 2-4 watts and the flow decreased, but still more than enough to circulate the wattage and create little ripples at the water surface.

[Bebo77]

Originally posted by anthias_lover
Go to Home Depot and rent a generator.

yup or buy one

[trigger05]

Im sorry but what is a UPS?

[SirLight1337]

Uninterrupted power supply. ( another word for a battery that plugs into the wall, and when the power goes out it kicks to battery power to power whatever devices are hooked up to it )