Winter weather in the South this weekend!

[VJM]

Even in South Florida, with the heat at 71, my tank dropped four degrees overnight. It’s under the range I think is best for bettas. I turned the heat up (RIP my wallet) and changed the lighting schedule so it turns on earlier and helps warm it up. Our power losses here tend to be in summer, and gets HOT, so my emergency plan is all chiller related. I do avoid obligate cold water species just so my stress is a bit lower when that happens.

Stay safe, everyone!

 

[BenB]

Here we are complaining about the heat which was nudging close to 40C (100F) the other day.

I was going to say, don't y'all have crazy heat? But I realize all of Australia is not the barren scrub land that is often the stereotype we see on TV.

I don't know any Americans who wouldn't love to go to Australia and NZ. I play a little video game based in Australia and kangaroos are bouncing around everywhere. I was chatting with an Australian lady who also plays and I asked, Do kangaroos really just show up in your yard. She said, Yeah, if you live in the right area, they are everywhere. I said, If I looked out the window and a kangaroo was in my front yard, I'd my pants. That'd be so awesome. I want to see them all . Anyway... back to aquariums.

 

[Koan]

Yeah, if you live in the right area, they are everywhere

Haha almost got run down by one

Was camping in up in the Atherton Tablelands in North Queensland and I got up to use the privy in the dark...

Something must have spooked it cos I heard it coming fast through the brush.. didn't see it but I sure did hear that great big thump go past me close

Could have been a wallaby

 

[Pepere]

 

[Countrykingdom09]

Here in Georgia, we cannot seem to get past 40 degrees! That ice storm hit pretty hard, lost power etc. Now we are expected to get more snow this weekend. The crazy thing about this past weekend was that, on the same day the freezing rain came through, there was a tornado warning in South GA! As far as people can trace back this has never happened before. Ice, tornado? What..

 

[Pepere]

Here in Georgia, we cannot seem to get past 40 degrees!

I so feel for you….


NOT!

-3 this morning. 26 degrees right now….

Long range forecast currently does not see us getting up to 40 again until February 27…


So.. Cry me a River….

 

[Countrykingdom09]

I so feel for you….


NOT!

-3 this morning. 26 degrees right now….

Long range forecast currently does not see us getting up to 40 again until February 27…


So.. Cry me a River….

I cannot fathom that!I am thankful that here in Georgia we do get all 4 seasons, which is great, and look at me complaining about 30 degree wheater when y'all over there cannot hardly get out of the house! Well just one more month until you hit 40!

 

[Koan]

y'all over there cannot hardly get out of the house

Haha Yankees don't bother the weather they go out when they want to go out

 

[Pepere]

Haha Yankees don't bother the weather they go out when they want to go out

We do have a saying.

“Theres no such thing as bad weather… just inadequate clothing”

But by golly, it does get nippy enough that suitable clothing gets kinda bulky…


There is nothing like living through a week that doesnt get up to 5 degrees to make low 20s not half bad and 40s downright balmy…

 

[Koan]

living through a week that doesnt get up to 5 degrees

Just happy not to have been with my cousin in Minnesota this weekend

 

[BenB]

Here in Georgia, we cannot seem to get past 40 degrees! That ice storm hit pretty hard, lost power etc. Now we are expected to get more snow this weekend. The crazy thing about this past weekend was that, on the same day the freezing rain came through, there was a tornado warning in South GA! As far as people can trace back this has never happened before. Ice, tornado? What..

Yeah, we are struggling to get to 40 here as well. That's crazy for us. Hope you get power back soon. There are so many people without power and so much infrastructure damage. In Raleigh the models are forecasting somewhere between 0.3" to 26" this weekend. We never get much snow. I'd love it, but still a bit of residual stress from last weekend.

 

[JuJuFish]

We got power back here yesterday evening. Feeling very lucky as it will still be a long, long time for most people.

I have three cloudy tanks and a couple that look clear. Fish and plants look good so far.

I decided, since the tanks had gone without filters since Saturday, that I would reduce the contents of the Biomasters. I pared them down to the orange foam in the top tray, blue foam in the next tray, and the old Seachem matrix in the next one. The other trays are empty. And I put the 600 back on the 100 gallon tank but left off the 250. Maybe if all this works I will get up the nerve to switch them over to Rocco’s Netlea prefilter system.

Will probably do water changes tomorrow unless someone tells me that’s a bad idea. Hope the cloudiness goes away soon.

 

[BenB]

I have three cloudy tanks and a couple that look clear. Fish and plants look good so far.

Good luck getting everything back going. You did a lot of work to keep them in as good a shape as you good. Hopefully it will just be a few water changes and things get back on their feet.

 

[Art]

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[Pepere]

Rather frustrating that they wont show price without subscribing to their emails….

Pricing starts at $239, but that price would be shockingly low for 1 kwhr battery pack true sine wave inverter and battery charging unit.

My guess is the 239 is for some sort of accessory.

And listing a fish tank as requiring 50 watts is rather misleading. A heater keeping a 29 gallon tank with twinwall polycarbonate lid at 76 degrees in a 70 degree bedroom would run me over a kwhr a day. Canister filter and air pump runs me 15 watts continuous.

Ie dont plug your heater into a power station expecting it to last 24 hours unless you drop the heat a good 4-6 degrees…

On my 75 the Oase biomasters draw 32 watts and air pumps draw another 8, so that is 40 watts just for those two items.

 

[Koan]

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Interesting if they can deliver on what they claim

 

[BranchScape]

I keep waiting for a broader more standardized V2G application removing home batteries and allowing vehicles to be the backup. When that comes out I will add to my solar array and upgrade the inverter and other equipment. I may do a small battery to help with transition only.

Right now I have a 850w UPS backup that will just run my filter for a few hours which gives me time to get my airstone backups ready.

 

[BranchScape]

Rather frustrating that they wont show price without subscribing to their emails….

Pricing starts at $239, but that price would be shockingly low for 1 kwhr battery pack true sine wave inverter and battery charging unit.

My guess is the 239 is for some sort of accessory.

And listing a fish tank as requiring 50 watts is rather misleading. A heater keeping a 29 gallon tank with twinwall polycarbonate lid at 76 degrees in a 70 degree bedroom would run me over a kwhr a day. Canister filter and air pump runs me 15 watts continuous.

Ie dont plug your heater into a power station expecting it to last 24 hours unless you drop the heat a good 4-6 degrees…

On my 75 the Oase biomasters draw 32 watts and air pumps draw another 8, so that is 40 watts just for those two items.

How did you measure that 1KWH a day from a heater?

That would only be true if the heater had to run constantly but it does not in a temp controlled home. Waters SG is high enough it should run for maybe 2-4 hours a day.

My whole house used ~25kwh a day last month and that's with a swimming pool, my tanks, lights and everything else. The biggest energy users are my pool and laundry this time of year. The HVAC crushes everything when running (it wasn't so my use will go up to 32-40 soon).. I don't really even notice my tanks as they in total maybe do 1-2kwh. If my 100 watt and 300 watt heaters ran 24 hours then it would be 10 kwh but I doubt they are even 1 kwh. The filters and lights easily trump them and also generate heat.

 

[Pepere]

How did you measure that 1KWH a day from a heater?

With a kill a watt meter. That was the amount being drawn from running the meter 24 hours over and above the requirement to run canister filter and airpumps on a 24 hours continuous duty cycle plus the lights for 8 hours….

But I do need to correct the above. That was how much it was consuming before I fitted the Twinwall lid, with just the canopy on the tank.

Once I installed twinwall and lowered set temp to 72 degrees it is more like 2-300 watt hours a day.

I would go edit original post but it has extended past the time one can edit…

 

[BranchScape]

With a kill a watt meter. That was the amount being drawn from running the meter 24 hours over and above the requirement to run canister filter and airpumps on a 24 hours continuous duty cycle plus the lights for 8 hours….

But I do need to correct the above. That was how much it was consuming before I fitted the Twinwall lid, with just the canopy on the tank.

Once I installed twinwall and lowered set temp to 72 degrees it is more like 2-300 watt hours a day.

Ok so it was all the equipment, as written it seemed to imply just the heater for a 29gal, but for everything that tracks,