Hurricane Ike - Fish Stories

[phoenixbetta]

Re: Hurricane Ike - Fish Stories

yay, we have power again.... its about time, Im very thankful. Well, I just wanted to say most of our fish are alive we lost around ten fish total. We did not have any aerators or anything, we were constantly stirring the tanks every hour and blowing through airstones. We lost blood parrots, vampire pleco, servums, firemouths, yellow labs, and a peacok. Im glad to here that everyone is ok and trying to recover from this disaster. Im sorry to hear about everyone losses both fish and home wise, everyone is in my prayers.

[fishingaddict]

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dont think blowing through airstones was a good idea.. but luckily you didnt lose too many fish.

[Batterup]

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Plants are not looking good but might make a comeback. Power came on Friday evening. Lost some fish but will move on.

[eklikewhoa]

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Blowing through airstones is counter productive.....we breath out co2 which is what you are trying to remove from the water through aeration/circulation.

[geoff_tropheus]

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Human Exhale Normal Composition

Component                    Atmospheric Air (%)          Expired Air (%)
N2 (plus inert gases)            78.62                       74.9
O2                                       20.85                     15.3
CO2                                       0.03                      3.6
H2O                                           0.5                      6.2

[Kiovo]

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I'm not sure if many of you guys are familiar with Pho Dung, inside the Hong Kong 4 shopping center off of Belliare.  Well, the restaurant isn't that good, but they had two fish tanks in there, which makes me come back time and time again!  In one of the fish tanks are two beautiful flowerhorns, and a bunch of blood parrots.  I went there yesterday and ALL of their fish died during the power outage.  They didn't think to get battery operated air pumps or a generator for their tanks, which had well over $2k worth of fish.  Such a shame...

[jeebus]

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Human Exhale Normal Composition

Component                    Atmospheric Air (%)          Expired Air (%)
N2 (plus inert gases)            78.62                      74.9
O2                                      20.85                      15.3
CO2                                    0.03                        3.6
H2O                                    0.5                          6.2

Which is exactly why CPR actually works..

[schance]

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wow that sucks a real tragedy i think flowerhorns are amazing

[Zulaab]

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I'm not sure if many of you guys are familiar with Pho Dung, inside the Hong Kong 4 shopping center off of Belliare.  Well, the restaurant isn't that good, but they had two fish tanks in there, which makes me come back time and time again!  In one of the fish tanks are two beautiful flowerhorns, and a bunch of blood parrots.  I went there yesterday and ALL of their fish died during the power outage.  They didn't think to get battery operated air pumps or a generator for their tanks, which had well over $2k worth of fish.  Such a shame...

Yes I am familiar with the place.  I go there for the same reason :(
I also go there because a friend of mine (HPD officer) patrols the mall

Btw what is a good place go to ?  I usually goto Pho21 on the corner of Gessner and Harwin.

[Kiovo]

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Jesper, if you want pho, IMO the best place to go is Pho Danh, which is also inside the Hong Kong 4 shopping center but on the opposite end of Pho Dung.  But only their pho is good, everything else isn't!  The funny thing with these Vietnamese resturants are, they usually specialize in one item and everything else on the menu isn't that good!  :)

My dad even offer to buy one of the flowerhorns from him a couple of times, but the owner wouldn't sell, and now they're gone  :(

[Zulaab]

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That is sad....  well hopefully they will restock the tanks again later down the road with something interesting in there :)
I like going there for the fish.. well if I had known you guys go there then we should all meet for dinner at times down there :)  Cheap dinner :)
Hopefully they will restock soon :)  heh :)

[sick-lidbythesea]

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Amidst all of this what does and doesn't work..... I have read that its not good to stir the tanks when there's no power to filter the toxic crp disturbed from the bottom and that its actually harder on the fish.   Draining and re-pouring the same water from a 2' ht works better at oxygenation and surface agitation.  I was fortunate and only lost my 3 Borlei in the 2 days before I got my genset back.  I also have a small 12v bilge pump that I rotated between tanks that I mashed the hose end to spray the surface.  It had no problems running on the deep cycle marine battery for the full time.