Wet/Dry power outage?

[brucewrs]

Just curious how long will the bacteria on the Bio balls live under water if the power goes out and my sump fills up with water?Thanks

 

[xdave]

If you scoop the water out of there and exchange it with tank water it will stay alive. It doesnt work as well as when it's running obviously, but a little. You can feed it as well.

 

[cgrant]

i have read that as long as the power outage is not a major one, and that as long as the bioballs/media/etc dont dry out you should be ok, but a major outage would cause some problems!!!
I think only thing to do if you dont have a generator is put the bioballs in water and hope for the bestif outage was for days, etc?

 

[brucewrs]

I have a generator but during a storm if the power goes out I was wondering how long can the bacteria on the bio balls be submerged for.Someone told me that they would drown if submerged under water.

 

[cgrant]

dont submerge the bioballs, just let them float around in the water.
If you have a generator already best thing to do is get a ups to carry the load until you get the generator going.
Honestly if you have a generator i dont think you have that much to worry about, just put a good ups on it, generator will take over from then on.

 

[brucewrs]

Originally Posted by CGRANT
dont submerge the bioballs, just let them float around in the water.
If you have a generator already best thing to do is get a ups to carry the load until you get the generator going.
Honestly if you have a generator i dont think you have that much to worry about, just put a good ups on it, generator will take over from then on.

My sump fills up 3/4's when the power goes out.Most of the balls would be under water.What is a ups?I just got back into this hobby.Alot of things have changed in 10 years.LOL

 

[bojik]

UPS = a computer backup battery. Like whats used for servers and such. Staples or many other computer electronic stroes will have them. And if that fails. You could try putting a battery air pump under the balls to airate them a bit. At least till you get the generator fired up.