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**stevem** · November 5th, 2012, 06:18 PM

i also went through the same no electric, and my tanks where also down to 68 deg
I survived by do water changes during with warm water and mixing salt by hand
I ha no losses

I also removed all filter media and discarded as soon as the power went down
cleaned out my skimmers and kept battey air stone in both the tanks and the sumps

so keep doing small frequent wc, and u should be fine

the trick is to keep water moving
i went through a ton of d batteries, was out searching for them
found them in lowes on hamilton ave lucky
one big mistake people make is feeding there fish in a black out
they are fine with no food for awile, and it keeps the nitrates down
saltwater starts to die off very quickly so that is why u remove the media and clean out the filter right a way

November 5th, 2012, 06:18 PM	#2
stevem Super Moderator Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: Brooklyn Posts: 687 Rep Power: 34	black out i also went through the same no electric, and my tanks where also down to 68 deg I survived by do water changes during with warm water and mixing salt by hand I ha no losses I also removed all filter media and discarded as soon as the power went down cleaned out my skimmers and kept battey air stone in both the tanks and the sumps so keep doing small frequent wc, and u should be fine the trick is to keep water moving i went through a ton of d batteries, was out searching for them found them in lowes on hamilton ave lucky one big mistake people make is feeding there fish in a black out they are fine with no food for awile, and it keeps the nitrates down saltwater starts to die off very quickly so that is why u remove the media and clean out the filter right a way