Help!

[mark4880]

Hello everyone, I have just come home from work went to turn my lights on the tank and it wasn't working. I looked at the plug and noticed it was switched off. My son must of turned it off this morning before we left the house playing. My filter has been off all day, what I want to know is will it affect my bacteria as im just about cycled and am worried the filter not being on all day could kill of some bacteria.

My filter is built into the hood and the water flows through it and tricles out at the end back into the tank, so being off the flow would stop.



The filter tray is still full off water and all the filter media is still soaked and hasn't dried up, does this mean it will be fine?



Thanks

 

[StandbySetting]

No big deal really, just turn it all back on, all should be fine as bacteria are quite slow to die off, any affect will have been minimal if the media remained wet.

 

[fluttermoth]

It ought to be alright; my son forgot to turn the filter in his tank back on after feeding his catfish; it was off all night and the tank was fine.

Feed sparingly if you have fish in, and test for ammonia too if you can, just in case.

 

[mark4880]

I feed them this morning (only two neons at the mo till the weekend, long story) and it was still there tonight so I took it out. Im pleased things are ok as my LFS said after 3 months of cycling and going through new tank syndrom im now cycled and im just waiting till the weekend to add a few sunset platies. Im buying an API test kit tomorrow but I have a great LFS who have been doing repeated water tests for me to track my progress. Id be gutted if today ruined all that. lol

Thanks for the reply's

 

[CezzaXV]

The bacteria die at a rate of 12% every 24 hours, so it's unlikely you've lost much.

 

[mark4880]

cool, i've added some bottled bacteria as a replacement, (which i know many people dont rate) but like I said the tray still managed to keep all the water in which nearly covered the media so it was still soaking. I did a few days ago make a small #41#### at the bottom of the filter flow as my LFS gave me some media and becteria ball's from their tanks and putting it in made it sit slightly above the water, but after damning it it brought up the water level covering all, so I guess if I didnt have dont that it could of been worse.

 

[Greg_DS]

I done a late night water change and forgot to turn the filter back on and left first thing for work, think it was a total of 18 hours, everything was OK.

 

[Chug]

I agree, I live in the east coast of canada, and both during summer and winter we get some wicked storms that knock our power off for hours at a time, and some times over night. Fish have always turned out ok. The odd time they start to slow down their activity.

 

[creeker]

Just to agree with what everyone else has been saying, we had a huge power outage here in Southern California a couple of months ago. My tanks had no power for 12+ hours. My bacteria survived unscathed as I never showed any nitrite or ammonia readings after. That bacteria is pretty durable.

 

[waterdrop]

Had a good laugh at the thread title this morning but agree with the others. I've been through long power outages and can attest to the ability of the colonies go quite a long time under poor conditions.

By the way, for people who do experience outages, there are good threads available by searching that talk about optimal steps to take when you lose power.

~~waterdrop~~

 

[BigbruiserAl]

Had a good laugh at the thread title this morning but agree with the others. I've been through long power outages and can attest to the ability of the colonies go quite a long time under poor conditions.

By the way, for people who do experience outages, there are good threads available by searching that talk about optimal steps to take when you lose power.

~~waterdrop~~

Welcome back

 

[phishyphil]

It ought to be alright; my son forgot to turn the filter in his tank back on after feeding his catfish; it was off all night and the tank was fine.

Feed sparingly if you have fish in, and test for ammonia too if you can, just in case.

+1

 

[mark4880]

Brought 3 sunset platies at the weekend and them and the neons are doing great they are loving the bubble wall.. I find myself just sitting there for ages just watching them. I also brought and API test kit to keep a track if things. I'm going to top the neons up to 5 then going to look for a nice red siamese fighter then I'm done.