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Sk8r · 07/19/2019, 06:10 PM

Penn Plax makes a bubbler that cuts on when the power goes out. This can be had at the typical big box stores, and it is a real good backup for when you're at work and there's a blackout at home.

Understand that the oxygen-carrying capacity of water diminishes with heat, so if you're too warm AND lose circulation, it's worse than if this happens in winter.

Ordinarily we don't like bubblers in our tanks, but when it's providing oxygenation---you betcha. It's life and death.

For future reference water temperature lethality from cold starts at 62 degrees downward; and lethality from heat---that usually happens from OXYGEN starvation as well as temperature in excess of 85.

07/19/2019, 06:10 PM	#5
Sk8r RC Mod Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Spokane WA Posts: 34,628 Blog Entries: 55	Penn Plax makes a bubbler that cuts on when the power goes out. This can be had at the typical big box stores, and it is a real good backup for when you're at work and there's a blackout at home. Understand that the oxygen-carrying capacity of water diminishes with heat, so if you're too warm AND lose circulation, it's worse than if this happens in winter. Ordinarily we don't like bubblers in our tanks, but when it's providing oxygenation---you betcha. It's life and death. For future reference water temperature lethality from cold starts at 62 degrees downward; and lethality from heat---that usually happens from OXYGEN starvation as well as temperature in excess of 85. __________________ Sk8r Salinity 1.024-6; alkalinity 8.3-9.3 on KH scale; calcium 420; magnesium 1300, temp 78-80, nitrate .2. Ammonia 0. No filters: lps tank. Alk and cal won't rise if mg is low. Current Tank Info: 105g AquaVim wedge, yellow tang, sailfin blenny,royal gramma, ocellaris clown pair, yellow watchman, 100 microceriths, 25 tiny hermits, a 4" conch, 1" nassarius, recovering from 2 year hiatus with daily water change of 10%.