Mark Stone
August 16th 03, 08:34 PM
new2hotwheels > wrote in message >...
> hello, I was part of the power outage and was without for over 29 hours
> I managed to keep all my africans alive in my 150 gallon by doing water
> changes with my python, but I'm sure I swapped out at least the 150 gallons
> it holds
> the tank has about 40 med to large assorted africans in it
> the ph is ok because we have liquid metal from the tap
> 1 whisper 4, 1 emperor 400, 4 power heads with UGF
>
> my question is how long until my tank cycles again? I imagine that
> there's still a lot of the bacteria there even if the bio wheels, and filters
> died
>
> as of this morning the ammonia is still 0 after running for about 8 hours
>
> any ideas? thanks, Duane
Not to worry. You're aquarium is still cycled -- the bacteria is
everywhere. During power outages, however, we need to take our
Bio-Wheels out of the filter and float them in the aquarium itself so
they stay wet, and their colonies of Nitrosomonas and Nitrobacter stay
alive --
--Mark
Mark Stone tractorlegs at msn dot com
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> hello, I was part of the power outage and was without for over 29 hours
> I managed to keep all my africans alive in my 150 gallon by doing water
> changes with my python, but I'm sure I swapped out at least the 150 gallons
> it holds
> the tank has about 40 med to large assorted africans in it
> the ph is ok because we have liquid metal from the tap
> 1 whisper 4, 1 emperor 400, 4 power heads with UGF
>
> my question is how long until my tank cycles again? I imagine that
> there's still a lot of the bacteria there even if the bio wheels, and filters
> died
>
> as of this morning the ammonia is still 0 after running for about 8 hours
>
> any ideas? thanks, Duane
Not to worry. You're aquarium is still cycled -- the bacteria is
everywhere. During power outages, however, we need to take our
Bio-Wheels out of the filter and float them in the aquarium itself so
they stay wet, and their colonies of Nitrosomonas and Nitrobacter stay
alive --
--Mark
Mark Stone tractorlegs at msn dot com
OSCAR Lovers! http://www.geocities.com/cichlidiot_2000/oscar.html
The ".Edu" meens i are smart.