Tony
Dave Neely wrote:
>
> Hey all,
>
> ...so the past several days have been interesting. The storms that came
> through last week knocked out power to my house on Thusday, and it's still
> down. I have a 6V-powered mino-mizer running on the tank with "critical"
> fish (stuff that would be near-impossible to replace, like a couple
> undescribed things) and they're still OK, but I've had heavy losses in the
> others. I've been getting about 16-18h out of each battery. I guess I need
> to make sure I have a better supply of aerators and batteries on hand in the
> future. At least the temperature has dropped a bit. Still, I've been
> debating pulling everything out of tanks and getting them into coolers with
> a couple inches of water, which might keep O2 concentrations higher, or even
> renting an O2 cylinder from Airgas...
>
> Anyway, my minor problems aside, what does everyone else do for backup in
> case this kind of thing happens? While I'd like to have a 5000W generator
> around (which could also power an electrofishing boat quite nicely -
> hmmm...), I can't justify the expense right now. This of course begs the
> question of what kind of systems a facility handling T&E species would have
> to have in place? Pat? J.R.?
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> Cheers,
> Dave
> --
> along the mighty Mississippi,
> St. Louis, MO
>
> --
> David A. Neely
> Dept. of Biology
> St. Louis University
> St. Louis, MO 63103 USA
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