Well, we had an unexpected ice storm here last night. I woke up at 5:00 this morning to no power and a very cold house. I had just recently listened to Rob's podcast on being prepared for a power outage. i thought to myself "hmm, I realy should be more prepared, now that I have a good bit of money invested in livestock". Of course, I'm a procrastinator and hadn't gotten around to it. So, here I sit at work, worried sick about my tank. The power had obviously been out for an hour or two before woke up, and the tank temp was already down to 75F. Everybody still looked OK by flashlight check, but I'm scared what I will find when I get home......
as great as it is to invest all the money on back up generators & all the back-up trimmings that come with it, for the usual outage most people would throw the battery powered or rechargeable air pumps up the back, put your cover glass on, & through a blanket on to keep the heat in.
I bought a couple of the Penn Plax B11 air pumps that come on automatically if the power goes out and put one in my sump and the other is in my DT. If I was home and it was winterI would also throw a blanket over my tank.
I bought a couple of the Penn Plax B11 air pumps that come on automatically if the power goes out and put one in my sump and the other is in my DT. If I was home and it was winterI would also throw a blanket over my tank.
We went through a 27 hour one two weeks ago. We now have enough pumps for every tank (we have 12 tanks... plus sumps... alotta pumps). We just bought several more of the B11s as well.
I'll be getting a generator. Blankets in the winter is fine but how do you run the chillers in the summer?
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