The story of how I prevented my reef tank from crashing when I lost power for over 84 hours during the Texas winter storms. Extended power outages can wipe out your saltwater reef tank aquarium due to lack of flow and gas exchange. Major temperature swings can also have a devastating impact on your saltwater fish and corals. Unfortunately, we rarely discuss the necessity of emergency reef tank equipment until it's already too late.

We Texans would never have considered that we would experience below-freezing temperatures and have no electricity or water for over four days. Even the most prepared of reefers with backup generators and the like faced consequences due to the storm as we could not anticipate that we would have gas and water shortages as well.

The event sheds light on the absolute necessity of keeping emergency reefing equipment on hand and having a plan of action for extended power outages even if weather-related power outages are seemingly impossible to occur in your location.

Keeping emergency backup reef tank equipment should be implemented in our saltwater tank builds from the start and should be discussed in all equipment build lists and guides for starting a reef aquarium moving forward.

This snowstorm was incredibly grueling for all Texans, especially reef hobbyists. My heart goes out to all of the reefing community who was affected by these winter storms. If you were affected, remember that the community cares about you and we don’t want to see you throw in the towel!

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List of emergency equipment I plan to keep moving forward:
• Back-up Heaters: [ Ссылка ]
• Propane and Gas Generator: [ Ссылка ]
• Fish Isolation Box: [ Ссылка ]
• Air Pump: [ Ссылка ]
• Car Inverter Power Adapter: [ Ссылка ]
• Portable Butane Gas Stove: [ Ссылка ]
• Extra Gas Canisters: [ Ссылка ]
• Portable Phone Charger: [ Ссылка ]
• Aquarium Chiller: [ Ссылка ]
• Extra RODI Storage Jugs: [ Ссылка ]

If you have any other tips for surviving extended power outages from storms, floods, hurricanes, etc. let us know in the comments below.

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00:00 Historical TX winter storm
00:56 Introduction
01:33 My experience
10:50 IM 40 gallon
14:00 Preparing for extended power outages
20:08 Message for my TX reefers
22:33 Final thoughts
23:34 Comment time

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