Abrooks12376
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Anyone else down and scrambling??
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Abrooks12376
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No one else lost power ?!?!? Man..
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Fine here. North Shore
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Abrooks12376
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Dedham, lost it from 5-9..
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Abrooks12376
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Generator saved the reef!
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Depending on the tank size, there's no need to panic.
I've lost power in the middle of the night(Thunderstorm) and the tank went without power for ~6 hours and it was perfectly fine.
I've lost power in the middle of the night(Thunderstorm) and the tank went without power for ~6 hours and it was perfectly fine.
The most important concern with short term power out is loss of oxygen. Depending on the tank this can happen in just a few hours. I recommend that everyone have a battery powered Penn Plax B-11 set up for every 2 ft of tank length. This pump can sense the loss of power and will then turn on, pumping for several days on a pair of fresh batteries. Large fish are the first to die. I go into this and all the other things that can take down your tank in a series of articles I wrote a while back (Stopping Murphy in His Tracks):
http://reefkeeping.com/issues/author/gh.php
http://reefkeeping.com/issues/author/gh.php
