Re: Enumclaw Storm

[throatwarbler mangrove <kta6662003@yahoo.com>]

If you do go looking for those pumps, shop around.
I've seen them range in price in excess of $10 to
around $3 (which is what I paid for them.)

The ones that worked best for me run for about 8 hours
on 1 D cell battery, and I think I remember driving 4
box filters in short tanks during that time. Not the
ones that are designed for hanging down into a bucket
- they're too expensive and clumsy.

Going to a sporting goods store was always the worst
choice in that they did have the pumps and got a lot
of money for them. I bought mine at K-mart, haven't
checked if Target stocks them.

When the power is back is a good time to change water
and clean filters to prevent 'funkiness.'
--- Trish <snips36@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Matt-
> 
> I didn't feed mine for that reason....knew they
> could
> go without food for at least 2 weeks......and
> knowing
> the food would casue waste....and since no
> filter...well it makes sence, then to not feed. I
> plan
> though to invest  in those battery operated pumps
> for
> the future though.....
> 
> Gladly to my tanks aren't to heavily crowded....
> 
> Trish
> 
> PS Thanks for the info though!
> --- throatwarbler mangrove <kta6662003@yahoo.com>
> wrote:
> > 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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