blackout

[giorid]

Hi everyone,

While I'm at it I thought had ask another question separate from fishy problems. This one is about an electrical storm sydney suburbs had a few days ago, anyway, the thing is that the electricity was off for about 5 hours where I was due to a big lightning strike nearby, I didn't notice any ill effects to my fish so I assumed that the filters didn't suffer, do you think I should add something like cycle to the tank, just to be sure, I don't usually use the stuff unless it's a new setup, thanks, max.

[swampy1972]

Don't worry about it. They'll be fine.

[scoob]

we had a power blackout for 8 hrs and it was in the middle of winter, the main thing would be the Oxygen level in the tank, I had a couple of battery powered air pump's so it was fine, even my Disucs fry in the garage survived.
The filters are quick to recover.

[Mr Wild]

I agree with battery power, air is always what is needed foremost. I also always run a sponge filter in every tank that was when the power off and I run battery I have air and some filtration.

[Ghoti]

I agree with battery power, air is always what is needed foremost. I also always run a sponge filter in every tank that was when the power off and I run battery I have air and some filtration.

Yep, Kath put me onto this sometime back as we regularly have power outages. Though I have now upgraded to the more "posh" K1 media. Somehow the tumbling wheels look better than a lump of black sponge.

Certainly handy to have handy as a peace of mind thing. You certainly would have had some bacteria die off but they will quickly reestablish themselves

Cheers,
Scott

[Mr Wild]

Yep, Kath put me onto this sometime back as we regularly have power outages. Though I have now upgraded to the more "posh" K1 media. Somehow the tumbling wheels look better than a lump of black sponge.
Cheers,
Scott

Tell me about this wonder stuff Scott - have I missed something?

Kath

[Ghoti]

Tell me about this wonder stuff Scott - have I missed something?

Kath its the most exciting development in fishkeeping since the invention of water :P

Well...perhaps not, but it is still pretty cool.

Basically the K1 media are small plastic "wheels" that are only just buoyant and are used as the basis of an air-powered moving bed filter. I have mine in a plastic 1lt bottle with holes drilled top and bottom to allow water flow and an airstone fitted to an airline running through a hole in the cap. As the air bubbles up it causes the plastic wheels to tumble and twirl around the bottle apparently knocking off a portion of bacteria therefore encouraging the growth of newer, hungrier bacteria.

It is the whitish bottle in the corner of this pic.

http://i202.photobucket.com/albums/aa142/ghotipics2/5%20foot%20Journal/5Foot-05092011.jpg

Adrian of Exotic Aquatic uses it in his tanks and sells the stuff for under $10 per litre. You only 1/2 fill the bottle (to allow space for movement) so 1lt of media needs two litres of space - or makes two 1 lt sized filters :wink:

Cheers,
Scott

[Mr Wild]

Yes I see what you mean. mmmm I can hide a sponge easier than that though I will stick with my old ways lol.
Thanks for sharing though pretty neat.