Blackout in Surrey. + Dead fishes....

[King-eL]

I'm currently away from home and got a phone call from my mom around 4am that my tank is not running due to black out. My uncle in Burnaby barrowed my Power back up and my mom kept on phoning his place and cellphone but no one is picking up. Now I'm sitting here at work worried about my fish. Most of my fish are airbreather but for the cichlids, characins, catfish, spiny eels, loaches, sterlet and expensive arowanas needs a lot of oxygen. Hopefully they are still alive when I get home. Crap I have a bad feeling that this is not going to be alright. Hopefully they were not feed last night as I been away since Monday. If my parents feed them last, that's gonna be a big problem by the time a get back home. They said that black out probably started around 4:00am.

[veng68]

Sorry to hear. I hope your fish pull through.

In future you can set up a couple of Penn Plax Silent-Air B11 Air Pump. They turn on automatically when the power is off.

Cheers,
Vic

[King-eL]

Thanks I think I should do that next time. I relied to much on my power back up generator. The only thing is, is that airpump powerfull enough to pump up large tank?

[King-eL]

Puck!!!! Power came back on now and just in time I just got home. Except to see my super 13" red asian arowana, 8" sterlet, 5" trimac cichlid, 14" bowfin, 5-7" 2x flagtails and 2x 18" dorados dead when I arrived. Puck!!!

The bowfin was probably death rolled apart by my bichirs as it was complete darkness. Or it probably tried to scavenged some of the dead fish and choked. So it end up in the menu as it's the only fish that was torn apart, except that the trimac cichlid have some bite marks similar shape to the bowfin's mouth.

[King-eL]

Royal clown loaches are also slowly dyeing. They were gasping for air when I arrived. 2 DEAD already!!! PACK!!!

[skrick]

Sorry to hear

[King-eL]

Sorry to hear

If they were not well feed last night it should not have been a problem and probably have a high survival rate. This really sucks!!!

[Victor]

Sorry to hear that Earl. I feel for you man. Hopefully everything else pulls through

[King-eL]

Everything back to normal now except the royal clown loaches. Tanks is running again normally except the loss of the other fishes.

Can't even go to sleep right after coming from work.

[The Guy]

Sorry to hear about your fish guy, we had our power out for 6.5 hours a week ago, guess I was lucky did not lose any fish. Canadian Tire had gas powered generators on sale so I got one just in case it happens again and I'm sure it will.