power failure- a nervous night

[aspen]

we had a power failure last night, and i can tell you, i was very nervous. i presently have 4 batches of fry, 14 1/2" opal borelli, 75 nicaraguense at 1/2", 50 pea sized discus, and 50 discus 4 days free swimming, 8 fishtanks in all. all lived, no ammonia or nitrite so far. power went out at 4:10 pm yesterday, and came back on at 5:30 am this morning. oddly enough, i have a red snakeskin discus pair on eggs, and they were mostly all dead, so i can assume that eggs have a special need for o2, even more than the most sensitive fry. (2 discus in a 30 gal, 1- 6", 1- 5", corner box filter.)

all filters seem to have lived through the night, all corner box filters and aquaclears. water doesn't seem cloudy, or even dirty. i didn't do anything special, i just let things resume when the power came back. i won't be in a big hurry to get any canister filters, that's for sure, although my 90 gal BB discus/ geophagus tank has a HOT magnum with a micron filter which didn't seem to have had any problems.

pheewww!
rick
(toronto, canada)

oh, my milk went bad, so i had to have my coffee black. we are supposed to have rotating blackouts today but things seem to have settled down for now.

 

[fisheads]

Things were pretty dark in Mississauga as well. All my fish seamed to have no problems weathering the black out as well. Our power was out for about 17 hours. My biggest concern was for the fish that I had coming in from Nigeria Friday morning!! The airport did not get their power back until about 6 pm Friday night. I ended up getting the fish home at about 10 pm Friday night. They had been in the bags for about 60 hours!! Everything turned out ok. Some of the fish are a little ragged including the Pel. sacrimontis but they will be ok in about a week.