What is your plan for your tank when you have a power outage!

[OCReefMadness]

Please share your experience in here what should we plan ahead for our tank when we have a power outage during the windstorms. Where can we buy those equipment?

 

[OCReefMadness]

1. Battery air pump.

 

[pgr11]

Plug it in to my motorhome generator

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[lowbudget]

When you are home you can. But when you are away you can't plug it in your motorbike generator

 

[StarBlenny]

Grabs my bro's UPC (that's connected to his comp) and connect my evos to the UPC

 

[cymaster007]

Honda generator 5000w, upc for vortechs and an air bubbler

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[gonumber24]

If short term outage, less than a few hours, upc battery backups. If long term, a generator.

 

[cthetoy]

Cheapest solution to start:
Inverter to car battery (around $20)
Air pump(s), air stones, tubing ($15)

Lasts as long as your car battery can provide and plenty of gas in your car to recharge the battery.

 

[JOSE CASAS]

generator and straw lol

 

[lowbudget]

straw.... hahahahaha

generator and straw lol

 

[GoReef165]

Cheapest solution to start:
Inverter to car battery (around $20)
Air pump(s), air stones, tubing ($15)

Lasts as long as your car battery can provide and plenty of gas in your car to recharge the battery.

Love this

 

[BigDaddyStar]

I have laxed on getting anything...and considering I live in an area that should be prone to outages I should be concerned but I am like magyver so I would whip something up...

Best bet for short term.a ups to your powerheads and a air pump just to keep things living.

For longer term...cant beat a generator...you can buy a cheap one at harbor freight for like $200 bucks when they are on sale. install a plug on the panel and you can feed your whole house (running minimal things of course, fridge, a light, your tank)
And of course home depot rents them but you can bet in a major outage your local one aint going to have any left

and of course the cheapest way to go grab an inverter hook it to your car and start her up...(I would call this a desperate last act in a long term outage) but a route nonetheless

 

[BigDaddyStar]

Oh and of course the proper way for about $2000-$3000 you can pick up a automatic generator that will fire up when an outage occurs...runs on natural gas or propane if thaat gets messed up too

 

[wickedfish]

This.....

Need a reason to walk away.


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[lowbudget]

i can use one of those. need to get rid of this cough

This.....

Need a reason to walk away.


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[Skidazl]

http://www.socalireefs.com/forums/showthread.php?t=23606

 

[Laker]

I've got a Vortech battery back-up. But that won't be enough and I'm looking into generators.

 

[Raskal311]

I got enough battery powered airpump to run 30 tanks and a 2000watt generator.

 

[RuffReef]

7k watt generator and a plug on my panel, ran my entire house

 

[OCReefMadness]

Now i knew where to get the equipment incase I have a power outage.

I got enough battery powered airpump to run 30 tanks and a 2000watt generator.