Not possible to sue the electric company, though I wouldnt mind ****ing in their coffee pot someday. The crappy thing is that the bill was paid, on time just like always. They made a mistake and cut my power, apologized and then turned it back on but 5 days later. I trained my gf that lives here how to take care of the aquarium but had never planned for a long term power outage like what happened. This week I built a wooden enclosure with a couple of large 12v car batteries and a 1500 watt inverter that should run a powerhead or two and a heater for quite awhile. Even better would be to add a recycle timer to the power backup that ran the pump/pumps on a cycle of 5 minutes on/5 minutes off to conserve power and still keep the tank water moving. I just need to test exactly how long the system will run off the batteries when fully charged. Sucks to learn from mistakes but I guarantee I wont be caught with my pants down again!