Hey all,
i know we are from ALL over the globe around here so some of you may or may not know, about the absolutely increadible ice storm that the northeast US just went thru at the end of last week. Ive lived here for my entire 28 years and never experienced such chaotic disater from a winter storm. about 1/2 - 3/4 inch of ice on EVERYTHING. needless to say, the destruction of trees and power lines was immense. i was out of power for 82 hours (but who's counting, right?) and having electricity back is actually sort of surreal. for days all you could hear was the hum of chainsaws and generators. Tens of thousands in the area are still without power despite an increadable effort from the power company and many will not be fully restored until around friday, they're saying. All's melted now and various limbs still falling from high winds, so surely more outtages to follow. but i wanted to share my story with other fishy folks.
SOMEHOW, without heaters or filters or lights for the plants, every single one of my fish survived (even my khuli that i never see is accounted for)!!! i am so relieved for this as i worried tremendously about them doing daily water changes with warm water to TRY to get the temps up and nh4 down. Thankfully it was only bitter cold for a day adn then warmed up quite a bit, but our house temp hovered around 64 degrees F (18 C). While traveling out for my morning coffee the second powerless day, i heard the cashier tell another coustomer that all her fish had died overnight. i asked her more and she lost over 40 tropicals (how sad)...im sure this story can be repeated over and over again. How mine all made it, i dont know but im sure glad they did.
but now my tanks are a mess. im sure the filoter bacs died in the canister on my turtle tank, abd the plants in the betta tank dont look so hot- COVERED in bga
have tried salt dips for plants and over dosing ferts with great success in combatting algae in the past, so might try that. gonna head over to planted section and ask the folks there for some advice. around 6 months of wonderfully stable tanks and now sqyare one.
but im greatful to still have my turtle and fishies so worth the effort all over again.
just thought id share with all here. Hope everyone is well in their neck of the woods!
cheers
i know we are from ALL over the globe around here so some of you may or may not know, about the absolutely increadible ice storm that the northeast US just went thru at the end of last week. Ive lived here for my entire 28 years and never experienced such chaotic disater from a winter storm. about 1/2 - 3/4 inch of ice on EVERYTHING. needless to say, the destruction of trees and power lines was immense. i was out of power for 82 hours (but who's counting, right?) and having electricity back is actually sort of surreal. for days all you could hear was the hum of chainsaws and generators. Tens of thousands in the area are still without power despite an increadable effort from the power company and many will not be fully restored until around friday, they're saying. All's melted now and various limbs still falling from high winds, so surely more outtages to follow. but i wanted to share my story with other fishy folks.
SOMEHOW, without heaters or filters or lights for the plants, every single one of my fish survived (even my khuli that i never see is accounted for)!!! i am so relieved for this as i worried tremendously about them doing daily water changes with warm water to TRY to get the temps up and nh4 down. Thankfully it was only bitter cold for a day adn then warmed up quite a bit, but our house temp hovered around 64 degrees F (18 C). While traveling out for my morning coffee the second powerless day, i heard the cashier tell another coustomer that all her fish had died overnight. i asked her more and she lost over 40 tropicals (how sad)...im sure this story can be repeated over and over again. How mine all made it, i dont know but im sure glad they did.
but now my tanks are a mess. im sure the filoter bacs died in the canister on my turtle tank, abd the plants in the betta tank dont look so hot- COVERED in bga
have tried salt dips for plants and over dosing ferts with great success in combatting algae in the past, so might try that. gonna head over to planted section and ask the folks there for some advice. around 6 months of wonderfully stable tanks and now sqyare one.but im greatful to still have my turtle and fishies so worth the effort all over again.
just thought id share with all here. Hope everyone is well in their neck of the woods!
cheers
, im half expecting to lose power again! that would be so degrading to have lost it for days and then have it go black again. as for the dechlor, good advice and thanks, but i never really measure anyway. use pond dechlor in a 6 gal so i just use a "blob" which is certainly more than enough (knock wood never had problems yet)
