"Koi-Lo" Inane messages posted in my name by Hipcrime. wrote in
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"dc" wrote in message
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The bacteria certainly wouldn't die. Nitrosomonas and nitrobacter
bacteria are a lot more resilient than people give credit.

This may be true but many filters, like the ACs have a deep 2 sponge
well that would quickly go anaerobic under the sponges after several

Hypoxia won't directly kill off aerobic bacteria, it simply prevents them
from obtaining food through nitrification. The hypoxic conditions need to
persist for an extended period of time for the nitrifying bacteria to begin
to die off rapidly due to, essentially, starvation.


them started again come morning, I can sometimes smell a funky odor
they don't emit when not stopped for who knows how many hours. For

The odor you are smelling could be a lot of things, the least of which are
dead nitrosomonos. My first guess would be sulfuric gasses produced by
anaerobic bacteria.


some reason ACs don't always start by themselves when the power comes
back on.

This is generally due to some force of resistance on the impeller, usually
friction between the impeller and the impeller shaft or the impeller blades
and the plastic guard which sits above it. If you gently touch the
impeller bade with a plyable object that won't do damage to the plastic
blades, it should spring to life.