The Storm Is COMING! How To Prepare Your Aquariums!

[@KGTropicals]

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[@florencetheunicorn]

I love that you referred to all of your fish as "lives" that you're responsible for. So many people view fish as throw away after thoughts.

[@Fish_Nexus]

No one actually into fishkeeping thinks this

[@Demontoastslayer]

@@Fish_Nexus but people who keep fish have this mindset

[@finnwiggles28]

Looks like the cats got things under control. >^^

[@reggie2803]

Amen brother. A generator is a small price to pay when you look at your investment in aquariums and fish.

[@denarisnoctem4562]

". . . all these lives we are responsible for . . . " I love you.

[@bigjay1970]

Smart! 🤔😋 This is the whole reason why I don't have a saltwater reef tank. If the power goes out you're down possibly tens of thousands of dollars once the temperature drops even 7 degrees. At least with fresh water the echo system isn't nearly as delicate.

[@divinelotus19]

I live in GA and we live in a very secured place. We already used our generator ($700) made sure it was seasoned. We also have snakes and frozen rats. Which are very expensive for 10 snakes ($300 6 month worth). We cannot afford to NOT have a generator. We have a community tank of fish. In Texas, and some KZbinrs, their snakes died because it got too cold, the electricity didn't come on fast and some people don't have a chimney. So I also worried. The moment the lights went out. My husband and I hooked up the generator and it was the most secured feeling I felt. I wasn't worried, scared, or panicked. The piece of mind is ALWAYS WORTH IT! 👌🏻

[@melaniedc_]

Remember to get the gas to run the generators 😆

[@juliaheinritz3264]

It is such a comforting feeling to be prepared. Here in WI we are pretty lucky but bad storms do find their way here sometimes. My husband just installed some type of outlet in the garage that comes into the basement wall. The generator in the garage plugs into it and then in the house an extention cord can be run to the basement, the furnace, and yes, multiple aquariums:) We are trying to be prepared. I feel so bad for so many who lost everything from this last hurricane:( 😞 😪. Glad you are all OK. My husband & I really enjoyed meeting you at Aquashella Chicago. We had a really good time. I was the 'stalker' on the escalator as you and Jason were on your way down. You were both so awesome to stop and chat with us! It sure made my weekend:) Thank you!!

[@eddydevillelowks9499]

Spoken like a real man . Dont complain if u deep in the hoby with numerous tanks and thinking about shelling out 500 more for just incase situations.

[@lukethebest2058]

Same Bro, I love trees and fish

[@TarasAquaria]

Hurricane fiona slammed nova scotia. I lost 25% of my fish. No power for 8 days, 2 weeks for other, we're still repairing lines and removing trees here. Worst hurricane we had in history. I hope you stay safe and healthy. Tell Lisa I said hi! I don't see enough of her. She's great.

[@pkendlers]

So sorry for your fish loss. A hurricane way up in Nova Scotia - who'd ever expect that'd be a thing? Do you get nasty nor'easters up there? What do you do for those?

[@TarasAquaria]

@@pkendlers yes, nor easters too, fiona was the worst we ever had. Before that I had no worries. This time I'm preparing, looking into generators, battery operated air pumps and air activated shipping warmers to keep the fishes warm and alive. I only had candles and a BBQ lighter. All of the gas was sold out for days in cape breton, all of the camping supplies and camp stoves and fuel for them were sold out. It was crazy here. I'll be more prepared for next time. Hurricane season runs through November 1st.

[@Laura-ed5kf]

Peace of mind is priceless, & 2K to 4K w/ the no. & value of fish & plants YOU all have..? That’s cheap! Not to mention good pet-ownership.

[@pkendlers]

Or a fish business :)

[@paulmccarthy7467]

Being prepared and having everything you need always stops me stressing and worrying about these things. As we all know having a lot of tanks can be stressful but rewarding when you look back and see what you’ve created. I’m glad Ian and the hurricane didn’t have too much of an impact. I spent the whole day doing maintenance today. This hobby is a beautiful thing but can hard work too

[@Jeswald1]

Great video. I can’t count the number of tanks of guppies we lost in the storms of ‘67-78 in Gloucester, MA. When the power went out, no power for a week. We heated the house with two fireplaces and a wood stove. We owned 28 acres of woodland, so keeping warm wasn’t a problem. Those blowdowns were fuel. Our poor fish 😭

[@rachelschildman2327]

So glad you didn’t have anything worse with Ian! And I agree, better to be prepared and not need it than to need it and not have it.

[@arigarrido7116]

Late to the party, but as a floridian, seeing the panic buying that always happens a day or 2 before a hurricane always reminds me how important it is to be prepared before there is ever a threat. I think everyone else in the US felt something similar during Covid lock downs. (Toilet paper anyone?). This is such a great tip. No such thing as over preparedness!

[@cammiluna]

I moved from a NYC neighborhood that never had a power outage since the Northeast Blackout of 2003, to a town in Washington whose power goes out for 1-2 hours everytime it gets windy. I have a battery-powered air pump for my tank- I had gotten that pump originally when preparing to relocate my fish across the US just in case there were any hiccups on the move. It turned out that Tacoma's power supply company doesn't work on weekends when I moved (whereas NYC's is 24/7) and I had to stay with a friend until Monday. Drop fish in a 5 gallon container, connect battery air pump and all was good! I haven't needed the pump since, but it feels so good to have it! I definitely need to save up for a generator. I don't think they would help when you live in wildfire territory but who knows what kind of surprises mother nature will have for this country in the coming years!

[@loriewest2590]

I had a whole house generac system installed on my house for my fish tanks. My stress levels would go so high when I didn't have one. it's worth every penny it costs me for peace of mind.

[@billlooker2689]

11 aquarium,s never lost a fish power out three days. In north fort myers. 12 miles from pine island. 5.5 hours in the eastern eye wall we got your butts kicked

[@ChIrish]

One more cheap purchase for some ease of mind: A simple hand pump gas siphon. In case you run out of gas for the generator, you can take some from your vehicles

[@janetayscue2111]

Trust me there will come a time when you need that generator I live in Charles city in Virginia of and be thankful you have it

[@danubia1029]

I just moved to North Carolina in Bessemer city but with this advice i'll take note because you never know when you are going to need it! Thanks God every body are ok ,blessings!!

[@leematherly3417]

So glad to hear your ok! I used to live in Statesville and went through hurricane Hugo. We had 110 mph winds and our trees were permanently damaged. I have since moved to Michigan and don’t miss the hurricane stuff. Looking forward to seeing your next video. 😎

[@paulrichardson2229]

Hope you guys stayed safe

[@terrygorsch386]

I'm glad you all are safe 🐠

[@owenpeller6471]

Dead trees are great for birds such as woodpecker’s. It would be best to leave the dead tree in place

[@fishypetkeeping]

I've been lucky enough to never have been without power for more than a few hours (and I'm 26). When we move to a bigger place and I work more than half-time, we'll definitely get a generator, just to be safe. I'm glad you didn't get hit as bad as other places! Stay safe!

[@pkendlers]

I've been thinking about some "fancy cat chairs" myself, but I'm on the hospital electric grid, so it never goes down for more than an hour or two here. When we move away from here, I'ma getting some solar cat chairs, lol!

[@michaelwestcott3004]

You should look into a standby generator that can be serviced by a local company. With your fish house it will be a Valuable investment. The power goes out and the generator comes on automatically

[@AdreaRaptorX8]

I had to go to work for the storm (essential position) and was there for about 24 hours. To prepare I set up and had the battery operated air pumps already going to my sponge filters in the small tanks before I left, just in case we lost power during that time I wouldn't have to worry about my fish as much. My big tank I have both a canister and sponge filter. We can hook up the big tank canister filter to the generator, but not knowing when I'd get home to do that, have to rely on the battery air pumps in the meantime.

[@blujeans9462]

I've lived in my house for 30+ years and only had one incident of a 24 hour outage (during Sandy). However last year the power was out across the street for several days (my house was fine) but it did prompt me to get a generator. Although it's just been sitting, it is a good feeling to have one. I do suggest others not be like me, though. I've broken it in (that's important if you want it to be in good condition when you need it) but have never done a real dry run: unplug everything, ensure you have gas and all the right extension cords, handy - because it could happen at night when it's almost impossible to see; you want everything ready and easily accessible during the day. Then test it out; see how long it can run on one tank of gas - so you can be sure to have enough gas on hand for several days, so you don't have to drive hours to get gas when you need it. So glad you didn't need it!

[@divinelotus19]

Break it out and use it every 6 months at least. Keeps the gasoline fresh.

[@nyteflyer5016]

As a Florida resident with experience in the power being out for a week you must also consider how you will fuel your generators. How long will they run under load with one tank of gas, it may be several days before you can get gasoline, I saw a propane tank on your property, you might want to consider propane generators.

[@Khaeris]

glad you got through the storm ok. good advice as always in your videos, but did you have to give me a new thing to worry about? now I'm going to be worried about who will feed my fish if I'm a zombie. 🤣

[@ruthmeow4262]

You know, back when you did the house video, I always thought that having those fireplaces working would be great for power loss during a hurricane for heating and cooking.

[@lexifiscina2370]

I live in southwest Florida. Ian hit me directly…..

[@julielockett1812]

Btw I did wonder if Any of you guys I follow online had been affected by the hurricane so it's good to see you made it through

[@peterwentworth9181]

Cat sat on the UPS unit. Does that stand for ultimate purr system 🤔

[@bambimccluskey]

Adult wins!! So great to see you all are OK and safe! That peace of mind!! The zombie bit, hopefully someone is there to feed the fish.....the distant stare....ha! Thank you for another great video! Have fun today!!! Hugs!!!

[@kusuko..scla..213]

Wooooow your backyard is huge!!! Beautiful place! DYI got hit too! Last week!!

[@KaneWrestlingFan999]

Have yet to watch the video so it should be interesting to see how you plan for so many tanks but yeah about Ian...I live in Cape Coral and our power was out for 10 days (just got it back yesterday) and even though I only have one 36 gallon tank it stressed me pretty bad worrying about my fish (albino cories). Thankfully except for one mystery snail casualty every other life in my tank survived. Before the storm I got a second petbank brand battery backup airpump you charge via a USB, so throughout the outage I swapped em back and forth having one in use while the other would be charging however I could get a charge. Early on when no one else in my family actually had power I had to rely on the couple family members that had generators to keep the other air pump charged. So that along with copious use of seachem prime to keep the ammonia as under control as best I can is how I got them through. Made sure to manually take out water and re-add it for extra oxygen whenever I added prime too because it supposedly depletes oxygen the more it's dosed. Also helped that corydoras can gulp air from the surface so they're more forgiving then many other fish would be. Oh and of course I did water changes when we got water back 5 days in, was kinda risky tbh cause of the potential for water quality being bad but it wasn't practical to use tons of jugs of gallon water, which ofc would be significantly different parameter wise to Florida tap.

[@donaldhall8785]

+Glad to hear you made it through Ian. I grew up in Fort Myers and still have a lot of friends in the area. A few that were at the beach lost everything but most came through ok with only a little damage. Worst storm I ever went through was Donna back in 1960. Ian must have been 10 times worse. I'm up in Homosassa now, about 80 miles north of Tampa and all we got was a little rain. Thank God for that as I have 5 tanks and no generator. Have to go and get one now as these storms are getting worse all the time.

[@hongluong3427]

Prepare for the worse and hope for the best. Got some good news my rams have been breeding got some fish fry

[@beckycombs6050]

Cannot agree with you more. Not only are generators a life saver, but do not forget to get plenty of heavy gauge extension cords and power strips and store them with your generator(s). We live in a rural area of Virginia and we can have occassional power outages due to weather. Our last outage was not weather related but pre-planned electric company maintenance related. We had the plan and were ready to hook everything up and the tanks didn't miss a beat.

[@eastofi-95nc54]

Welcome to North Carolina………

[@janthomas6016]

What would we do without your knowledge ? You are one of the best on the “fishy” platform ! Thanks for doing these videos

[@markh.williamsauthor7286]

We live in the country in Ohio. Winters can be brutal. We ended up getting a whole house generator because of fish, birds, 2 work from home computer people, heat, food, and dogs (although they like it cold - husky, Akita, and a mastiff).

[@markh.williamsauthor7286]

With multiple buildings that wouldn't be cost effective, of course. Mine is just one house, so it's doable.

[@ManyfacedGod94]

Hurricane!!!! Aaaaaahhhhhh!!!!!! 😔😔😔😔😓😓😓😓

[@marygrott8095]

I definitely agree that being prepared is well worth the cost! We only have one fish tank, but my concern is being able to have my family prepared. Ten years ago we lost power for ten days due to a severe tropical storm! There were no places that had generators, but once everything settled down, we bought a generator! We don't ever want to have to go through that again.

[@pennywv8636]

Save that sycamore wood, it is great for tank decorations

[@julielockett1812]

We,re losing power for 8hrs friday I brought 2 aqua 1 battery pumps but I tested and wasn't impressed so I brought a rechargeable power pack and ive only got 1 small aquarium but ive come this far so I wanna make my fish happy

[@nathanhoveyaquatics]

Just missed the mark for this video. Lol. Haven't watched it yet but im sure I could of used something from it. Man was I stressed about my 6 tanks as I'm in Southwest Florida. Thankfully we have a generator that's big enough to run the entire house. It's still a pain as we don't run everything so we don't stress it to bad but I was able to run pumps/air daily. Anyways looking forward to the video..

[@TheSalient1]

Was gonna say why not just get a generator haha then boom there it is

[@frezhfinz9306]

I live in central Florida and my Gf family lives by fort myers beach and they got very badly destroyed I was wondering what to do with my fish but nothing happened in central florida didn’t even lose any power and I was like someone should really make a video on this topic 🙏🏽🙏🏽

[@naegwut]

Love your working fish shed

[@valiaudet3415]

Be prepared. Very good. Is the tree good for fireplace or outdoors, firewood. Would be interesting to know if either tree had prior damage where the weak spot was.

[@cichlid_kings]

Thanks John. It really is a small investment considering everything invested in our tanks. 4,000W generator on the shopping list. Glad to hear Ian did not do too much damage for you guys 😎

[@gaylepuou7214]

Its worth it!

[@mingbritson]

Another great video -- glad all went mostly well. Just cut up that wood, let it dry and do bonfires next spring, duh. ;)

[@justinb638]

The air pumps don’t use alot watts so battery things help for a bit while if need heaters going thats when the trouble happens those use alot od watts :/ i have one but wouldn’t work for for then probably 3-4 hours if heater had to be on at all

[@allmightygreat1892]

My friend has a big honda generator. Double the price. No loud sound . Very quiet. 700 or 800 dollars.

[@chiroxxxrt]

Damm tou got nice property there I hope there are no wild animals roaming around at night or day .

[@johnbranson3298]

Here's how to keep your aquariums running if you have thousands of dollars just waiting for this occasion.

[@simonramirez497]

Little to late for me lol. But glad im all good. Ill know for next time

[@johncameron4194]

Cute cats

[@JD-zi5oo]

Have you ever thought of going solar?

[@PurevanillaVR]

Crazy

[@johncameron4194]

Good video

[@jevonsmith4751]

hopefully you see this, but I have a 40G and I want to put 2 male and 5 female kribs with tetras and corys will that be fine or should i just do two pairs of kribs?

[@robertwayman7974]

A lot of extension cords, for sure.

[@PanRybka22]

Hello

[@meyou805]

❣

[@sawyercustomaquatics3094]

Why are you not running an endless loop air system through the whole building? 1 pump all tanks covered. I've got a few of the systems and they make life so nice. drill a hole tap in a valve where ya want and go.

[@nevermindlaughs]

What’s the psi needed to run air like that?

[@sawyercustomaquatics3094]

@@nevermindlaughs really depends on size. I had a 40x25 greenhouse at one point running a loop around the whole thing on a 1250 gph pump with 30 drops. My fish room is 70 foot of pipe, 60 drops running 40 tanks on a 1250gph pump. With lots of left over pressure.

[@scoopsonhoops]

have u ever kept reptiles?

[@Avenger4421]

Do you have enough gas to run that generator for 2 weeks.

[@pkendlers]

So one cat's name is Carl. Is the other one's name Meatwad?

[@PurevanillaVR]

I feel like people who comment first are like people who are like no I don’t know I just don’t like doing it I think it’s weird

[@secret725]

Can I have a shout-out gago kaaaa

[@matthewhartley8756]

I think it's already past cause there's nothing on the map