Whoops...

[ripped tide]

This past Thursday I did my usual water change/algae war and went about my business... So I thought!!! Apparently I either did not plug my filter back in, or accidentally pulled the plug out of the power strip some how. The only ill effect I've seen is that the algae has grown back extra fast!

Corals and fish are fine. The reason I hadn't noticed until today is because a have a HUGE tunze that creates most of the current on the tank. I added some fish today, during acclimation I turned off the tunze and noticed there was absoloutly NO FLOW.

The filter left unplugged is an eheim 2215 that I have packed full of bio media, a little bit of pelleted GFO, a little rox 0.8, and some filter floss.

Should I be overly concerned about a significant die off of aerobic bacteria? I may be wrong, but I assume the anaerobes will be fine.

I guess I have been testing the Berlin style!

 

[irahmatulla]

May be too soon to tell, but any ill effects? I am curious because I noticed that my cat hit the switch on one of my strips, and flow was off for a few hours. No huge worry in my head, but as I just had to emergency set up this tank, I am worried about coral being stressed as is.

 

[ripped tide]

No ill effect so far. All seems well. I just got home from being away for two days and all corals and fish seem happy, including the three new fish. I have a bit of water made up, so I'll probably do a little change tonight or tomorrow just in case. I was hoping to come home and see that all the hair algae had died... Nope