Re: Enumclaw Storm

[throatwarbler mangrove <kta6662003@yahoo.com>]

Being from the Northeast (which I don't miss today,
they can keep the 20" snowstorms to themselves), power
outages were a fact of life (and fishkeeping.)
After my first 2 day power outage in the winter when
the tanks all got down into the low 60's - africans,
guppies, killies, assorted livebearers - and not one
fish died and most of them would swim to the front of
their tanks to beg for food despite the darkness and
cool, I learned not to be concerned about it unless
the outage was for more than about 3 days. When that
would happen (more than once), I would put one of
those battery-powered bait pumps on crowded tanks and
that prevented any losses. Lightly loaded tanks, I
didn't bother and once went a week without power in
the fall due to hurricane damage - another type of
weather you don't get out here :-)

Summary - don't sweat it. Fish do fine in power
outages. Don't feed them  - they can go weeks without
eating and do just fine. I think because the
temperature changes gradually and that the low esp.
for a basement fishroom is around 60, everything
acclimates. If the temp went much below 60 I'd be
concerned. This is why we put our fishrooms in the
basement. Of course, basements aren't too popular out
here I guess.

Matt

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