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May 28, 2005
Tank Emergency
Good advice when the power goes out:
Somehow or another I (and a few others) missed the letter telling us that the power was to be off from 8.00am to 3.00pm so new transformers could be installed to cope with the extra demand of a nearby subdivision. Not a huge drama, except that tropical fish need their water to remain at a fairly constant temperautre in order to survive. The answer, as I found out by phoning around, is to wait until the temp drops to 24C then change about 10% of the water for unusually warm water to raise it back up to about 26C. When it drops again (about 1-1.5 hours) repeat the process until the power comes back on. This would usually be an unwisely dramatic change in temp causing undue stress on the tank’s occupants, but under the sircumstances it seemed the lesser of two evils.
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Posted on May 28, 2005 04:25 PM by fish399.
Filed in Pet Channel under tropical fish.
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Glad to hear my experience may be helpful to someone. I thought I'd give you a quick update:
Since this represented the equivalent of a 40% water change in one day, I made sure that I didn't clean either the gravel or the filter medium this week (in order to keep the bacteria levels high). I also reduced the amount of food for a day or two in order to limit any rapid nitrite spikes, and added the good old 'cycle' type of products to the last change.
None of my fish has died, nor even looks particularly stressed. Yay!
Posted by: Andrew at May 30, 2005 12:21 AM
