[Nachtfueur]

im creating a DIY site to educate new people and existing reef keepers in backup power for their aquariums. 29 REEF All Natural setup Survived Hurricane KATRINA AUG29th

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Ive been running this tank for 4 years now. It survived hurricane Katrina. I stayed for the hurricane...and survived... I live in Gulfport MS. Yea my neighborhood 360 degrees around us was underwater. Thank god our house is still here and that it didnt flood. 48 hours before the storm. I went on Nasa Gov and saw that the eye of the storm was perfect. I had a feeling that we would be out of power for awhile. Didnt expect about 3 to 4 weeks no power, looters everywhere in the neighborhood, our beach is the only thing left buildings completely gone. This first picture is my tank after the storm i was running on a simple prototype solar powered generator. God and sunlight kept it alive. i slept in a burning hot house (even tho i was offered to stay at a friends house with a generator with fans...) no electricity in the room next to the tank ..every night so i can hear when the power from my generator went off if it did..plus woke up every morning at the crack of dawn to put out a solar panel. Plus i checked the the generator every day,,every three hours to check the voltage,even woke up at night ..and checked it...to make sure it was fully operational. Yep what u see is a yellow tang ..OMG too small tank ..i know that lol i run a business in aquarium maintenance i know .. i have a friend that has 280 gallon reef ..and one that has a 8 year old reef survived the hurricane too..that hes growing coral in it.. i treated that fish like gold. It ate only the best food i could get .. it survived over a year..unfortunately died due to a filter drying up..the sound killed him i know it was a heart attack cause..i sat there for 4 hours ...from 4am till 8:00am to be there when that fish died...so dont think at all i neglect my animals... That tang died April 26 ,2005.. survived the worst hurricane disaster.

Click on the image its a link to my site its currently in construction but its got pics of my reef when it first started with the yellow tang and some star polyps and my beginning reef that survived and its got new updated pics of my reef 29 gallon under the link Gallery 4

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