Thought I lost it

[Mad Reefer]

Hello All
Hope you all rode out the storm safely.

Well, after a long night of no power ( off at 9:00 pm Fri. ) it came back on a 2:30 pm Sat. Looks like I was lucky, Tank temp dropped to 64. All fish made it ,but I lost a beautiful Plate coral I tried to run a heater and circ. pump from a power inverter ... kind of worked.

Anyone have any tips for future power outages? Thanks all Happy reefing

 

[MikeG]

Hello All
Anyone have any tips for future power outages? Thanks all Happy reefing

A generator, only way to go.

 

[stingythingy45]

Glad you made it through.It's too bad about the Plate coral.
What size inverter were you using?How many watts was the heater..

Nothing beats a small generator.Easy to store away when not in use,and easy to set up and get running.

 

[Mad Reefer]

Glad you made it through.It's too bad about the Plate coral.
What size inverter were you using?How many watts was the heater..

Nothing beats a small generator.Easy to store away when not in use,and easy to set up and get running.

Looks like a generator IS the way to go. I was running a 750 watt inverter off of deep cyclee batteries. 200 watt heater and 20 watt cir. pump

 

[SteveDola]

if you had an inverter...then what happened? you should have been able to run a heater and pump off that.

 

[stingythingy45]

Yeah,the heater should have worked fine off the inverter.
Did the batteries die on you?

 

[GobyWanKenobie]

I'm glad your tank survived. Don't give up on the plate coral. Although it may not come back, sometimes they make little plates just before they finally die. Give it a month or two before you throw it out.