Maxx
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This ought to be required reading for reefkeeping...
DISASTER READINESS by RICHARD DURSO
In the article Mr Durso mentions the Penn Plax Silent Air B11 Air Pump , (which Nikki also mentions and I use as well).
Here is a Battery Inverter, which is what MtnDewMan uses...
and here is a Battery Back Up system, that is similar to a UPS like WrightMe has mentioned....
There are many ways to skin a cat...
Personally, I like the B-11 air pumps because they come on automatically when the power shuts off. I dont need to be there if something goes wrong...I've got a stop gap measure with these. They will run about 5 days on 2 D cell batteries. I also live in St Louis Missouri, where the longest power outtage I can remember has been less than 12 hours in the past 7 years. Its rare that we're out even that long. I dont have to worry about hurricanes and Tornadoes are very rare in St Louis city itself...
If I lived on the coast and had a reef, I would invest in a generator. I would probably spend the money and get a natural gas powered generator that would run most of the house and have an auto start in the event of a power failure. Yes, it would be hideously expensive...but I'd sell it to my fiance as a "it powers the whole house kinda thing", and not make my tank the sole benfactor of its abilities..
DISASTER READINESS by RICHARD DURSO
In the article Mr Durso mentions the Penn Plax Silent Air B11 Air Pump , (which Nikki also mentions and I use as well).
Here is a Battery Inverter, which is what MtnDewMan uses...
and here is a Battery Back Up system, that is similar to a UPS like WrightMe has mentioned....
There are many ways to skin a cat...
Personally, I like the B-11 air pumps because they come on automatically when the power shuts off. I dont need to be there if something goes wrong...I've got a stop gap measure with these. They will run about 5 days on 2 D cell batteries. I also live in St Louis Missouri, where the longest power outtage I can remember has been less than 12 hours in the past 7 years. Its rare that we're out even that long. I dont have to worry about hurricanes and Tornadoes are very rare in St Louis city itself...
If I lived on the coast and had a reef, I would invest in a generator. I would probably spend the money and get a natural gas powered generator that would run most of the house and have an auto start in the event of a power failure. Yes, it would be hideously expensive...but I'd sell it to my fiance as a "it powers the whole house kinda thing", and not make my tank the sole benfactor of its abilities..