bacteria death

[sangell153]

I was doing a long shift the this weekend at work and arrived home monday morning to find my partner in a fluster about having to float hot water bags in the tank to keep it warm, apparently a power cut had been going on for the past 8 hours. Everything in my tank is still alive but the pump had been inactive for that time the bacteria being anarobic has bitten the dust. Ive got live rock and live sand that is keeping everything alive (barely) but is there any way to get bacteria cultured in the filter quicker than when i started or is it going 2 be the same long process again? any help would be great as ive spent a lot of money on the tank and i dont want to have to start from scratch

 

[Anonymous]

8 hours is nothing; the bacteria can live a long time in cold uncirculated water. How long has this tank been established ?

Regards,
David Mohr

 

[sangell153]

january it was first switched on, toxicity levels havent been going up fast but they have been going up noticebly ive already had to change the water today. maybe something else is making the levels rise but nothing is dead in the tank so i dont really know whats going on. ive had a mild outbreak of aiptasi in past week but nothing major.

 

[Mouse]

id go for something dead in there, snails can be very sensitive to sudden changes i water temp, maybee you got one lodged down the back somewhere, they dont half stink when they go.

 

[NYSharkLady]

Trust me...the bacteria won't die!! :lol:

I work in a microbiology lab and I've cultured some of the bacteria from my skimmer, put them on blood plates, manitol salt, etc incubated them, and THEN let them sit at room temp and they STILL thrive!!

It takes a lot to kill the bacteria in almost anything (natural) only a dose of the right antibiotics would get rid of them.

HTH!!