Power outage

[Tanked]

When I arrive home from work yesterday the power in my house was out. Jane informed me it had been about an hour. Within 5 minutes of my getting home the power came back on and all my filters started flowing again. I checked on all my fish and my 2 quarter sized marble angels were not lookiing so hot (they looked fine and fed very well in the morning.) with in an hour they were stuck to the filter inlet dead.

These were very new fish to the tank, only been in there 3 days. all of the other fish including the pearl scale angels were fine and this morning all was still fine.

Do you think 1 hour of not having filtration killed them? Or maybe the added stress of that combined with the stress of being the new guys in the tank? they had no signs of any wrong doings. fins and scales all healthy.

I tested the water and had ph 7, ammomnia 0, nitrite 0 and nitrate .5 ppm. temp 80 degrees Farenheit (26.67 C)

I think it's time to buy UPS's for all of the fish tanks!!!

 

[-=DG=-]

Oh man thats dam shame

I've got myself a little UPS 500. But as we rarely have power cuts which last for a second or 2, i hooked it up to the pc instead.

Definately worth the investment

 

[wetwetwet]

Sorry to heaqr that m8 I wouldn't have thought just 1 hour would have hurt that much - maybe as you said a combination of things



....at least everything else made it through

 

[mostanks]

really sorry to hear that tanked,same thing happened to me just a few weeks ago i lost 2 sajica,algea eater and a few more,so don't feel bad it was out of your control.


keep your head up tanked

 

[gadazobe]

I don't think the power cut killed them. I once forgot to put the plug back in when I did a water change and had no filter for a day ) but the fish were fine. It must have been a combination of several things - them being newbies, stress and whatever. Not a very professional answer I know, but if your water parameters are good, and there's no other disease in the tank, I can't think of anything else. Sorry to hear about your loss

 

[cichlidmaster]

I don't thimk the power outage alone did them in. If all you parameters measured fine then this is an indication it was something else.

Several years ago, our power went out during a storm. Now our power has gone out before, but never stayed off for more than a few minutes at a time so I was not worried.

Well when the power still was not back on in the morning I got worried. Of course I had no generator and every store was sold out from the night before.

Anyway to cut to the chase....my boss had a brand new honda generator he let me borrow. I ran it from the time I got home from work until I left for work in the morning.

It was shut down for 9 hours a day, so for these 9 hours the fish tanks sat completely still. My point being.....

With 130 breeding tanks and many, many fry tanks with no filters , air of any kind or lighting I only lost a half dozen fry.

My other point....the filters sat without air for these 9 hours and never went bad!!!

Don't think it was the outage!!

CM

By the way....I STILL don't have a backup generator!!! One of these days I guess.

 

[kevin007]

i would say that it was a combination of things, but imo i say that streess is 1 of them oh poor angels

Kevin

 

[impur]

Yup coulda just been weak fish. I have had that happen with angels before.

 

[Tanked]

thanks for the imput everybody. I think it was probably a combination of things then beacuse the water is fine, the other fish are fine and the older angels had no problem at all. the quarter sized ones are still very young and not as durable. anyway thank you everyone. I'll have to get more angels now, but I think i'll look for silver dollar size or bigger.