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Unread 10/15/2018, 10:27 AM   #19
kizanne
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Well we wait for the worst of it to be over for a couple reasons. When the wind is blowing 90 mph with gust of up to 105 mph it doesn't take a very large piece of debris to ruin your day (body damage to the person putting it out). And our property has several trees 80 to 100 foot tall that weigh many tons. Kinda don't want that to crush the generator.

Power came back yesterday so now I'm changing water and cleaning tanks. I have too many tanks to run all the equipment on the generator so the lights were left off for a good chunk or time. reduced feedings.

Most the larger stock / breeding stock survived fine.

Unfortunately my male seahorse was in a hospital tank and the ammonia got too high. I caught it before he suffered but... He was very pregnant at the time and I"m worried the babies may have been harmed. I don't mind losing the babies but dead babies in a pouch could take out the male. Anyways he'd due. he released 6 yesterday then stopped.

Lost a few seahorse babies who couldn't take the reduced feeding, my brine wasn't hatching well with lower temps and no light. Lost a pipefish. Think I lost my tetra culture.

I had just gotten a male mandarin from the LFS on Saturday who was in the middle of his feeding protocol who has also had reduce brine feeding. he's still looking ok but he was skinny when I got him so hopefully he'll get plumped up if I can get more brine going. He had some fin damage as well. Tempted to throw him in with the girl since she'll show him how to eat, and that tank has some other small foods. But it also has pipefish and seahorses so it isn't going to fully support a mandarin by itself. It would give him things to graze on. I could throw the brine feeder in there. The female would show him how to use it and how to eat frozen but the pipe would also eat the brine they love the feeder.

It's good to have power back. Now I just need to get everything cleaned back up and moving forward.


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