Preparing your tanks for Isaac

JEden8 said:

What's everyone doing in the Florida area to prepare their fish tanks for possible power outages?

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I'm not in FL, but get some ice and a thermometer. Put it in water bottles, and keep them in a cooler. Add them to the tank and monitor the temperature. That is, if heat will be an issue.

Geniusdudekiran said:

I'm not in FL, but get some ice and a thermometer. Put it in water bottles, and keep them in a cooler. Add them to the tank and monitor the temperature. That is, if heat will be an issue.

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Hopefully heat won't be too much of an issue. My tanks are kept at 78-80 degrees as it is. I'll have some distilled/pre-treated water prepared just in case anything happens though. I didn't think about the temp being an issue so thank you! Can cross another worst case scenario off the list.

i got a couple battery powered air pumps

Not a doggone thing. My tanks can go a few days with no power easy.

My tanks can go weeks without mechanical filtration, I once had a filter clogged for a month and didn't notice. It's the lighting.. the tanks that don't even get indirect light are worrisome, plants will fade and nothing to uptake waste, but a few days aren't a problem.

Don't really need to worry in a heavily planted.