bojuben
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Yep - I was effected by the earthquake. I live approx 50 miles south on the coast in Arroyo Grande. I was not home at the time but my boys were. I was coming out of Starbucks with my cup of hot chocolate and I felt my legs wobble. Then I heard it coming! I walked as quickly as I could on very wobbly legs (kinda like I had too much to drink) into the center of the parking lot where there was nothing over head to fall and I rode it out. Cell phone service was overwhelmed so I could not get through to my kids who were home alone. Drove home as quickly as I could. The kids and dogs were fine. Lots of stuff knocked over but nothing broken. Talked to my husband at work and all of his employees were fine.
I have lived through hurricanes (living on the ocean on the east coast) and tornados but I have to say this is the scarcest by far. No warning and no control. You just have to take the ride and go with it.
Our power was out for 16 hours and I am surprised it was not longer.
I had to go out last night around 8:00 pm. A lot of the town was still without power. Both LFS had no power and all I could think about was how bad that could be for them. My favorite LFS is a great place! Last week he went to LA and stocked up for the holidays. Hopefully he will have minimal loses. I will probably be stopping in to see how he faired.
SLOfish is also in this area. Though he is on break from Christmas I hope his tank is OK and that someone checked on it.
How my tank faired.......................
I have a 30 gallon tank that rocked and rolled during the quake - but did not fall over. I lost approx 1 gallon of water to the carpet below. Since we had no electricity I could not get the carpet cleaner out to extract the water. I did put a bunch of towels down to get as much as I can that way but it could not get everything. This morning I got out my carpet cleaner and soaked the carpet with clean water as many times as I could to get the saltwater out.
Does anyone have any other suggestions on what I can do to get all the saltwater out? How much long term damage will this do? Will everything smell like sea water? Should I treat the carpet in any way?
I was very concerned about my fish during the power outage. Thankfully the tank is only 3 months old and I was stocking it very slowly. The temp slowly dropped to 70 and is usually around 78.
I have all my pump and lights plugged into a power strip and that is plugged into a GFI. I turned the power strip off so that the tank would not come on without me standing in front of it. I was concerned about electricity because both the GFI and power strip got wet. When the power went back on at 3:00 I work up to restart the tank. My GFI would not work! Checked the rest button and then the breaker. Both were fine. Husband seems to think that the saltwater damaged the GFI and that he will need to replace it today. This will not be pretty as he will have to work over my open sump in a very tight space behind the tank. My power strip now has a beautiful orange extension cord attached to a plug in my kitchen. Has anyone else had a GFI break from saltwater?
I have 4 snails, 4 hermit crabs, 1 featherduster, 1 firefish and a skunk cleaner shrimp. The snails and crabs are fine, the firefish was eating well this morning, my shrimp did not seem very interested in food and was not eating but he is hanging out under his favorite rock. The featherduster seems like he did not fair well. It has not extended himself and just does not "look" right. I am hoping that the shrimp can weather through as I really enjoy watching his antics. I checked all the parameters this morning and everything was normal.
I really tried to think of everything when I set this tank up. I was so concerned about having an overflow onto the floor from a pump gone bad. Never in my wildest dreams did I think something like this would happen.
If anyone has any suggestion on clean up or how I can help my shrimp and featherduster fell "normal" again I would really appreciate it.
THANKS!
I have lived through hurricanes (living on the ocean on the east coast) and tornados but I have to say this is the scarcest by far. No warning and no control. You just have to take the ride and go with it.
Our power was out for 16 hours and I am surprised it was not longer.
I had to go out last night around 8:00 pm. A lot of the town was still without power. Both LFS had no power and all I could think about was how bad that could be for them. My favorite LFS is a great place! Last week he went to LA and stocked up for the holidays. Hopefully he will have minimal loses. I will probably be stopping in to see how he faired.
SLOfish is also in this area. Though he is on break from Christmas I hope his tank is OK and that someone checked on it.
How my tank faired.......................
I have a 30 gallon tank that rocked and rolled during the quake - but did not fall over. I lost approx 1 gallon of water to the carpet below. Since we had no electricity I could not get the carpet cleaner out to extract the water. I did put a bunch of towels down to get as much as I can that way but it could not get everything. This morning I got out my carpet cleaner and soaked the carpet with clean water as many times as I could to get the saltwater out.
Does anyone have any other suggestions on what I can do to get all the saltwater out? How much long term damage will this do? Will everything smell like sea water? Should I treat the carpet in any way?
I was very concerned about my fish during the power outage. Thankfully the tank is only 3 months old and I was stocking it very slowly. The temp slowly dropped to 70 and is usually around 78.
I have all my pump and lights plugged into a power strip and that is plugged into a GFI. I turned the power strip off so that the tank would not come on without me standing in front of it. I was concerned about electricity because both the GFI and power strip got wet. When the power went back on at 3:00 I work up to restart the tank. My GFI would not work! Checked the rest button and then the breaker. Both were fine. Husband seems to think that the saltwater damaged the GFI and that he will need to replace it today. This will not be pretty as he will have to work over my open sump in a very tight space behind the tank. My power strip now has a beautiful orange extension cord attached to a plug in my kitchen. Has anyone else had a GFI break from saltwater?
I have 4 snails, 4 hermit crabs, 1 featherduster, 1 firefish and a skunk cleaner shrimp. The snails and crabs are fine, the firefish was eating well this morning, my shrimp did not seem very interested in food and was not eating but he is hanging out under his favorite rock. The featherduster seems like he did not fair well. It has not extended himself and just does not "look" right. I am hoping that the shrimp can weather through as I really enjoy watching his antics. I checked all the parameters this morning and everything was normal.
I really tried to think of everything when I set this tank up. I was so concerned about having an overflow onto the floor from a pump gone bad. Never in my wildest dreams did I think something like this would happen.
If anyone has any suggestion on clean up or how I can help my shrimp and featherduster fell "normal" again I would really appreciate it.
THANKS!
