[Sk8r]

re the 8 day powerout...I had no generator and though I could find one, I couldn't find one I could lift---120,000 people with no power, and supplies short, during winter, snow on the ground. I was able to hold tank temperature at 61.8 by curtaining living room with tank, and sleeping and living there. I'd go outside and fire up the barbie, heating bricks in an iron skillet that contributed to the ambient, as did candles and oil lamps, and every four hours, one of us got up on a ladder, dipped and poured gallon containers of water equal to the total tank volume. 102 gallon tank---100 pours (close enough). We managed to get half our fish through alive, all the corals, and of course the cycled bacteria. I used hydrogen peroxide a couple of times, and Prime on the 5th and 7th days. Lost all worms and such, but the crabs survived. Nitrate, as aforesaid, off the charts, because we had no way to remove the dead.