Filter Off For Long Time

[johnnyjtaylor]

Having done my back in about a week ago I got my mate to help me do my water change last night as I cant pick bugger all up and cant really bend down without squealing like a big girl! Thing is my mate did well helping me except he only managed to get the plug for the power head half way into the socket! Im guessing after 15 hours of no water flow that the bacteria are dead.
Is there any chance some bacteria survived for that amount of time without flow(its an internal filter and the water is well agitated with lots of bubbles{hence why I didnt hear the power head not running})??
I do have a small mature filter for a 10 gallon but my main tank is 40 gallon and the small filter is currently being used in another tank until its own filter is up to speed although this has been running for 11 days now so maybe I could chance taking it out and putting it in my main tank or even have it 16 hours in the big tank and 8 in the small each day Any Ideas/thoughts would be greatly appreciated.
cheers Johnny

 

[BigIan]

after 11 days the other tank would be up to scratch, pop the spare filter into the larger tank and it should have your other filter up to scratch in no time

 

[johnnyjtaylor]

Cheers Big Ian. I might go and score some of that bacterlife stuff aswell to help (if it does)

cheers johnny

 

[BigIan]

chemicals to aid the bacteria in the tank are a bit of a grey area some say they work some don`t, i personaly use them from time to time.

 

[johnnyjtaylor]

chemicals to aid the bacteria in the tank are a bit of a grey area some say they work some don`t, i personaly use them from time to time.

I'll get some anyway for under a fiver it cant hurt. Do you think I should stick the little filter in as it is with its own little pump or put the sponge from it on top of the inward flow in the big internal filter?

cheers johnny

 

[BigIan]

just run them in tandom, my filter packed up on my 65 gallon, and i was running a tiny filter packed with filter floss and that managed to keep the water quality ok (the tank is under stocked at the moment, untill my new fluval filter took the strain

 

[johnnyjtaylor]

cheers mate
8)

 

[tttnjfttt]

The bacteria in the filter may not be totally dead. Especially if your filter was able to keep them moist. I had this happen to me once and i had only a very minor mini cycle.

If you have a test kit, now would be the time to get it out and begin daily water tests until you know no problems will devleop.

 

[johnnyjtaylor]

Luckily for me I have a mate with one of those nasty blorbs (biorb but I think it should be blorb) and he brought me some of the weirdy blorb rock media stuff(in a bag of tank water) and I chucked that on top of the filter in my tank so all may well be saved. Now I just need to test regularly and fingers crossed all will be well!!!! 8)
tttnjfttt of course I have a test kit doesnt everyone? They have test tubes you know!!(brings out the mad scientist in us all )!!! The stats still look ok so maybe I got lucky
cheers johnny