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Power Cut - Filter performance

Nitrite zero, hooray! Ammonia, er...reagent bottle is empty, agh! Didn’t notice it was low. More ordered. Away with work now so relying on slave labour to do a precautionary water change 😂
 
Simmo said:
As I’ve got (much) older I’m now really fond of my fish and want them to thrive and be content and I get pleasure nurturing them. It wasn’t always this way!
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Non of us were. We have to go through the pick and mix, fully crammed, stage before enlightenment and the reward of harmony.
 
lazybones51 said:
Has anybody considered using a UPS with their aquarium? Might be a worth while addition when you consider the financial (and emotional) investment our aquariums are.
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For those that can't use a generator, a portable power station is a good option. I think a UPS would be more expensive and less effective.
 
kayjo said:
For those that can't use a generator, a portable power station is a good option. I think a UPS would be more expensive and less effective.
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People have tried using UPS, but a suitably sized UPS to last more than a few hours would be very expensive.

For example a 500VA UPS costing £200, with say 50W of filter power and say a 200W heater on 50% of the time will last 500VA/(50+200*0.5)= 3 hours !!!

In fact if you have no power to your house, no heating, and house temperature falls the heater will be more than 50% and drain the UPS even quicker.
 
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