I backed up yesterday too. And transfered some data from old hard drives to new ones. Can't be too safe
Awe poor clam. The rest of the stuff looks good though. I like the zoos
Definitely not a gold medal, probably not even bronze, but mine is in progress. I came home today to my sump not functioning - no return pump, skimmer, heaters etc. Apparently ice damning infiltrated an outlet on my porch, which is fed from the GFCI that runs my sump so the GFCI did what it is supposed to do...no power for 8 hours according to my refugium light's timer. So far I've moved half the cords to a different outlet and disconnected the wires to the porch so everything is working again. My basement is cold so I've got 5 heaters running to regain the 10 degrees that I lost for my ~90g of sump water until I can shunt water back to my display. This is going to take a while! If I had a giant glass pot then I'd just start boiling water but I worry about doing it with metal pots. And...to add insult to injury, my sump thermometer broke in half. Oh well. I guess it could be worse as there are only liverock, chaeto and snails in the sump. The dispaly tank has a small heater that kept it warm and has good flow from the powerheads so everything there is oblivious. Guess I'll be running a new circuit this weekend. I just wish that the rafters didn't run perpendicular between my sump and the circuit breaker...
4 years ago I was watching my baby oscar in his 33 gallon tank....I was just nodding off to sleep when SNAP! the tank split from corner to corner. I would have won the jump and sprint that day. Could have sold my medal to pay for new towels. hehe Just an aside. I am loving the Olympics. I live a few minutes from the speed skating oval in Richmond. The city turned our biggest park into a party zone. We have bands and fireworks going off 600m from our balcony. Some said the Olympics weren't worth the cost. But I can tell you that it has given our city a huge boost. Everyone is so happy and spirited. You can't put a price on that.
About six months into reefing I made a "I was in a hurry" mistake and unfortunately turned on my ATO just as my kalk mixer went into a stir cycle. I had been working on the tank for near half the day and the sump was near three gallons low. You could imagine what three gallons of kalk slurry did. At near nine in the evening I noticed the tank was so milky white I could hardly see a large naso tang swimming an inch from the front glass. I didnt know what to do..... I quickly went on line to my favorite forum and asked for advice. Someone quickly responded by saying to add 5Ml of vinegar every half hour until the Ph went down. 5Ml for how many gallons? I replied but, unfortunatly no answer came. I started adding a quarter cup every fifteen minutes in hopes that I wasnt going to kill everything in my new reef. At the time all I had was a salifert Ph test kit and the vial was turning violet blue after adding only one drop. After near two hours and two cups of vinegar later, I could finally see a change in the Ph test kit. I could get four drops in the vial before seeing the violet blue show up. I kept up with the fifteen minute vinegar treatments. The water was starting to clear. Finally, three hours later, I had 40 gallons of water ready to change into my 160 gallon system and did an emergency WC. This helped alot. I tested the Ph again. I was finally able to add the amount of drops the kit called for but the chart still didnt read that high. I added another half cup of vinegar and waited. By this time, I could see all of the SPS corals in the tank. Much to my suprise, they all had polyp extension and werent sliming. I was releived. It was three in the morning before the Ph was down to 8.5 and I finally went to bed. I had saved my reef. Amazing!!!
I had a rockslide happen in my 90 gallon, where all my rock fell and completely crumbled my reef. I took all the rocks out had them all sitting in the bathtub, all the corals laying around the bedroom floor and managed to get it all back together (epoxied this time), with no deaths and very little accidental coral fragging along the way.
I think I have the same generator. The cost also depends on when you purchase it. I was lucky in that I purchased mine in the off season - mid-summer when it was on sale for something like $450 at Home Depot. Try to purchase one now and you'll pay full price. A buddy of mine actually also purchased a high-end spitter that hooked up right before his fuse box, so he just plugs the generator directly to that and switches the power off the grid and to the generator. That way he doesn't have to run power cords all over the place. They turn off all non-essential items and run the house off the generator. When the power comes back on, he just flips the switch off backup and back to the main lines. I'll see if I can get a picture of it. --Ed
Yeah yeah for sure.. my father lives in florida actually and I remember his wife telling me that about 30 years ago it snowed in Tampa, and it was just chaos.
We just don't have enough of it to have a good method to deal with it. The city probably feels they are doing enough, but what we had really should not have warranted the type out outages we suffered. This wasn't 12" or more nor was it an ongoing storm. Other states that deal with it for months on end are well-prepared and have made the necessary adjustments.
Happy update: The power came back on after a total of 29.5 hours. It was nice to enjoy silence again and feel the heat coming out of the HVAC ducts. With the new temporary outlets, it was a breeze to reset everything back to normal, and we are ready for next time.
Wow thats crazy... must be kind of devastating for you guys down there when that happens?.. We've had that look outside since the beginning of December..lol.. and we usually loose power in the summer. Either way though a generator would be nice... eventually
The power is on, the heater is warming up the house and the generator is off after nearly 30 hours of constant running. I'm going back to sleep!!!
I am in Indiana. It has been a cold year everywhere it seems. About 6yrs ago when I first got a small 10g with clowns and mushrooms we had a severe ice storm. I lost power for 5 days and the house was 45-50 degrees and the tank was the same. Everything survived and I still have both today. When I build a new house I plan on installing one of the whole house backup generators. They run on LP/natural gas and automatically switch over on a loss of power. They startup like every 2 weeks on their own to run and test then shut back off. I think Home Depot has the Guardian brand for like $2k to provide 100A. Less than what I always thought they would be and while not cheap could easily pay for themselves on a single tank crash. It would also give you power to surf Reef Addicts and play the latest podcast. Or in your case Marc keep your FBGFOTW happy!
Thats long time without power. Four years ago the PNW was hit with a major wind storm that knocked out power to tens of thousands all over the greater Seattle area. Some went without power for over week before getting it restored. I still hear stories about massive tank losses from that event. Its a good thing your prepared. Unfortunately, I'm sure you'll hear similar stories from club members in your area when its all over.
Where are you located? That's darn cold! Still waiting for the power to come on. 17 hours and counting...
Good luck. Good thing you live in TX. It's 5 deg out here last night.
Nice pics Marc! I haven't seen snow up close in 3 years. Gotta love San Diego. Contrary to popular belief it does rain in Socal. We just don't get it as much year round. It kinda dumps here for 2 months and its pretty much dry the rest of the year.
Originally Posted by NATUREBATSLAST The best generator I've seen out there is a Prius... http://www.wikihow.com/Use-a-Toyota-...ckup-Generator Hope everything works out OK, great pics! By the way, that snow was bound for Maine, and we want it back! That is interesting but it is backfeeding power into house which is dangerous to utility workers, This does not disconnect power for mains unless someone shuts off the main disconect breaker(which people usually dont). That is why a transfer switch is the best choice when adding any type generator to house wiring. New generatos made have natural gas hookups with gasoline backups and do weekly/monthly startups to makes sure they operate and I had a tank as nice as melev I would definately have one lol. Melev, snow looks nice down there. We were lucky in mich and did not get that first snow storm. The second one hit us and we got 8 inches. People here are more used to it but still drive like crap lol.
The best generator I've seen out there is a Prius... http://www.wikihow.com/Use-a-Toyota-...ckup-Generator Hope everything works out OK, great pics! By the way, that snow was bound for Maine, and we want it back!
Wow! Thats quite a blanket of snow and a pretty messy street. Sorry to hear about the headaches, the wind must have been blowing just right. Kinda scary if you think real hard about it. Up North, there are deaths every winter during power outages from that exact thing. When you can spare it, a few hundred dollars will afford an electrician to install a generator transfer switch for you. After having one, I'll likley always have one reef tank or not. There are several benefits to them. Instead of pluggin in cords, I flip six rocker switches, I get to keep the doors closed. I run my refrigerator and household lighting, and best of all, the "Gentrans" have meters that let me know how many watts your using. With a six thousand watt honda, I am able to run my whole tank system if I keep other parts of the house shut down. Thanks for sharing your pictures of the snow. We didnt get any in Seattle this winter.
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