Tank Emergency Equipment Checklist

✓ Spare Saltwater Mixed up?

✓ Clearly marked “saltwater”?

✓ Do you have enough salt to make even more saltwater (at least enough to make 35% of your tank’s volume)

✓ Spare RO/DI water on hand?

✓ RO/DI unit ready to go?

✓ Filters fresh and not near end of life?

✓ Spare aquarium or coolers on-hand?

✓ Clean?

✓ Thermometer available for holding containers?

✓ Spare heater?

✓ Extra rock for places for fish to hide?

✓ (Large PVC elbows and pipe if rock isn’t available)?

✓ Air pump and bubbler?

✓ Battery backup charged and wired in?

✓ Generator gassed up and functioning?

✓ Controller accessible and configured to email/text alerts?

✓ Controller plugs labeled? (see page 1)

✓ On-call tank buddy know they could be called?

✓ On-call tank buddy’s number in your phone as well as written down on paper?

✓ Sufficient cash or credit available for new equipment?

✓ Spare powerhead(s)?

✓ Coral Rx coral dip for when corals return to your tank?

✓ Fish nets accessible, clean and free of tears?

✓ Fragging tools ready to go? (in case colonies can’t be saved)

✓ bone cutters

✓ tweezers

✓ super glue

✓ frag plugs

✓ safety goggles (for soft corals)

✓ tupperware to hold frags

✓ Refractometer calibrated and on hand?

✓ Flashlight with spare batteries?

✓ Spare towels?

✓ Test kits (Ammonia/Nitrite/Nitrate/Alkalinity) on hand?

*Note: If you live in a remote area, or do not have a local fish store within 1 hour driving distance of your house, I recommend you keep extra salt, holding containers, heaters, air bubblers and pumps on hand.