7 HOURS WITH NO FILTER!

[JardiniBoy]

I got home late last night and fed my fish at about 11pm. I got up this morning to find the lights in the tank still on and the filter off Luckily everyone was still fine and not showing any ill effects from my blunder. It's a 180G with the following fish:

1 jardini (15")
1 clown knife (13")
1 temensis (12")
1 oscar (10")
1 parrot (5")
5 clown loaches (4")
2 tinfoils (5-6")
1 front (8")
3 plecos (4-6")

Is this normal or am I just lucky?

 

[joeytoe]

I got home late last night and fed my fish at about 11pm. I got up this morning to find the lights in the tank still on and the filter off Luckily everyone was still fine and not showing any ill effects from my blunder. It's a 180G with the following fish:

1 jardini (15")
1 clown knife (13")
1 temensis (12")
1 oscar (10")
1 parrot (5")
5 clown loaches (4")
2 tinfoils (5-6")
1 front (8")
3 plecos (4-6")

Is this normal or am I just lucky?

with that load of fish, id say youve got the luck of the Irish.

 

[RadleyMiller]

Very lucky, did you do a big water change?

 

[messiner]

lucky you are buddy, check the perams for hoots and farts

 

[metant]

If you have good water quality, high dissolved oxygen., 7 hours will not affect your fish. With that fish load, I would say that they are just enough for a 180g tank.

What I am worried is the biological bacteria in you filter, they will die and would cloud water, just do 30 to 50% water change whenever this happens.

 

[boisblancboy]

Where I live there are frequent and long power outages. I have gone 2 sometimes 3 days without the filter, with no real ill effects. Just might have to do a frequent water changes until the bacteria recolonize back up.

 

[JardiniBoy]

Very lucky, did you do a big water change?

No ... not yet. I had to leave for work so no time. I have gone without a filter for longer, but that was on a smaller tank and I hadn't just fed them..

I'm gonna do a big water change when I get home.

 

[JardiniBoy]

with that load of fish, id say youve got the luck of the Irish.

Funny you should say that. A (Taiwanese) friend of mine saw my tank the other day and remarked at how sparcely stocked it was. Personal preference I guess ... in Asia people tend to pack them in and then go for a powerful filter system..

 

[Tongue33]

Well i wouldn't worry.. Allot of people turn there filters off at night

 

[water_baby83]

Dude, no worries, you're fine...... I wouldn't suggest making a habit of it, LOL, but you're fine.