I've had to take my tank down to make a few repairs (leaky seals grrrrrrr) and I've only had one filter running on my holding tank. My other two filters has not been up and running, but I did leave water in them. Has all of the beneficial bacteria been lost? I've kept the substrate in a rubbermaid tub, with some water left in the bottom. When I get everything back up and running will I have to wait out before adding my fish back to the tank?
A couple of water parameter questions
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Yes, all dead
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Clean the filter and substrate.
Set everything back up and take a little filter material from the running filter (replace it with new stuff) and put it in the clean filter. You can either do a fishless cycle or add a couple hardy fish to feed the new filter. Check water parameters. After a few days you can take a little more filter material from the old filter again. Continue till the filter is up to speed again and your back in business.
If there is a next time put all filters on the temp tank and just clean the substrate.
Dr Joe
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.Clean the filter and substrate.
Set everything back up and take a little filter material from the running filter (replace it with new stuff) and put it in the clean filter. You can either do a fishless cycle or add a couple hardy fish to feed the new filter. Check water parameters. After a few days you can take a little more filter material from the old filter again. Continue till the filter is up to speed again and your back in business.
If there is a next time put all filters on the temp tank and just clean the substrate.
Dr Joe
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Dr Joe;1821173; said:Yes, all dead
Clean the filter and substrate.
Set everything back up and take a little filter material from the running filter (replace it with new stuff) and put it in the clean filter. You can either do a fishless cycle or add a couple hardy fish to feed the new filter. Check water parameters. After a few days you can take a little more filter material from the old filter again. Continue till the filter is up to speed again and your back in business.
If there is a next time put all filters on the temp tank and just clean the substrate.
Dr Joe
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NOOOOOOOOOOOO Alrighty then. I will have to pull a piece of the filter and some of the rings out of the filter and do as you suggested. I'll try to speed it up with some hardy fish, or maybe try to find Tetras new product, and do a weekly check on the water and see where everythings at
Dr Joe;1821253; said:
I've got the tank all squared away now. I've cleaned the filters/substrate and and pulled some of the media out of the holding tanks filter.
I've tried one other thing. I added Seachems Stability to see if that helps the process of getting things moving a little faster. Was this a bad move or a ehhh so so move