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Originally Posted by BC-Axeman
Good info, thanks.  I've never heard of these. Either way, O2 or nitrates, these will help. |
The nitrates will go up as waste produces and no method to eliminate it (no power to run filtration) but in a reef, with live sand and rock, that should really help dramatically in buying you time as it is a self sustained system for the most part. Oxygen would be the biggest concern and something rapidly depleted, which causes death, which in turn then raises your amonia, then nitrites and nitrates. I have experimented and found that high nitrates won't affect your fish. They can tolerate that. However, will impact the corals. Amonia and Nitrites? Different all together and definitely will impact everything in the system, including the fish.
In the future, I genuinely would recommend you do constant water changes in between it that persists as a problem to reduce build up until the power returns.
In addition to the B-11 pumps, you can also put a siren/alarm that chimes when power goes out to wake you up.