Huricane Season

[Gatortailale]

Looks like lots of rain coming our way this weekend.  :(  Time to tune up generator for the season.

 

NOAA page

 

Earl:

 

Danielle:

[Gatortailale]

Last years big thread on generators ect.

 

Reefmon's thread

 

 

NOAA page

 

[beer2]

[mogurnda]

Guess I'd better tell the house sitter where the generator is.  Dang.

[Guest bill33]

mogurnda.... is your new tank still cycling or you have corals in it all ready

[Guest clownfish4]

IT BETTER NOT RAIN SATURDAY!!!  I have a flying lesson!  But back to the point, my dad won't let me get a generator, even if I pay for it!  So, aside from hoping for the best, I will probably invest in a couple of battery powered air pumps.  Man, these expensive hobbies are killing me!  I think I am going to have to find a second job to support all this :D !  I didn't have my tank during Isabelle, so I will be hoping like heck we don't get hit, both to save my tank and so I get to fly :p !  My biggest concern is not having water pressure.  i.e. no top off water!  Might have to put a bucket outside and collect some rain water or something.

[mogurnda]

[hijack on] Still cycling.  Almost done.  Now I just need to stay home long enough to get livestock into it. [\hijack off]:D

 

Note to self, set aside some RO topoff water in case of prolonged loss of pressure.

[Gatortailale]

As of the 4 pm update, on Wed. aug. 11, Bonnie will be over DC at 1PM Friday  :(

 

Clownfish:

I think Radio shack had power inverters for like $80 last year, Hook to car battery, might run pumps for small amount of time.

 

Also could get marine battery and marine pump for circulation since those pumps run off those batteries for hours; see boat store.

[ReefMon]

An airlift is a simple air powered pump, they draw water from the bottom of the tank to the top, providing both current and oxygenation.  

 

Use 1-2" dia PVC pipe, put a 90 on the bottom and one on top so the tank water level is in the middle of the open end of the top 90.  Stick the airline (without a airstone) down the tube and turn the pump on.  Done.

 

You'll be amazed at how much water you can pump with one of these!

 

HTH

Glenn

[mogurnda]

I just threw the airstone in the tank.  When weighted to the bottom, it generated lots of current and everybody was fine for days.

[peacetypes]

No problems here......passed right on by.  KNock on wood.   KNOCK KNOCK.

 

Robert

[ctreptow]

A couple of years ago I got one a penn-plax silent air battery powered pump. I works really nice it takes 1 D cell battery and you plug it into the an outlet. When the power goes out the pump starts immediately. It has been used at least 5 times and it worked great.

 

The pump will last about 5 hours on 1 D cell battery and if I remember correctly it cost about 10 bucks.

 

It is noisy as heck but it works.

 

I have to try it setup in the air lift config that sounds cool, thanks for the info Reefmon.

 

Chris

[flowerseller]

Who sells these litttle battery powered air pumps?

Chip

[ctreptow]

This is the one that I use

 

Battery Air Pump

 

Chris

[AquariaUSA]

We have a few battery operated air pumps left (from the WAMAS meetings

 

But..for those that have Costco memberships (or the others) they usually have a great selection of inverters which you hook to the cigarette lighter in your car/truck/jalopy/lemon, etc. Anything over 80 watts can at least run a small pump or powerhead (s). But they did have some bigboys for less than a $100. All you need is the inverter, long HD extension cord, some tape and way to plug stuff in through the house. Run the car every hour or so to keep the battery from losing power.

 

Or...buy a generator ($350+) to run on backup. Don't forget to buy gas

 

A list of who has what in case of drastic measures to be taken always helps:

 

{Rich Watson} If you don't mind the drive...we have at least 5-10 empty breeder tanks in our warehouse in Baltimore, plus 4-5 rubbermaid stock tanks. Also have a generator for emergency use.

[HowardofNOVA]

Dave,

Great idea to have all tubs filled with water before the storm hits. My 30g last year survived 3 days with out power. Use a 5g bucket and kept pouring water into the tank every few hours during the day. Loses = 0!

[michaelg]

I use the penplax ones as well.  2 on the 58 and one on the 20+ anenome tank.  The big difference with them is they kick on even if you aren't home with the power goes off.  A good supply of extra batteries is needed  one area that still goes anoxic is the sump.  If this happens again, I will hand circulte water from the sump to the tank every hour or 2 (draining back down to the sump) to prevent this from happening.  sporting goods stores/walmart also has bait pumps that run off of batteries and are not expensive.