frankb@hpsad.HP.COM (Frank Ball) (01/20/90)
*Subject: Re: Re: Home Made (F) Fish Food Recipes Wanted... *Newsgroups: alt.aquaria,sci.aquaria,rec.aquaria * *.......... Also, the bigger and *sturdier pieces give the fish something to worry at, and don't tend to *get lost or sucked into the filter like flake food does. Does anyone know how long the bacteria colonies in a biological filter can go without water circulation before they die??? I built a box that my power filters plug into. There is a button on the box that shuts off the power to the power filter for 10 minutes. This way I can hit the button, throw food into the tank, check to make sure the fish are all eating, and I'm done. I don't need to remember to turn the filter back on. And I don't get food sucked into the filter that I would by leaving it on or turning the flow rate down to the low setting. I have undergravel filters that a quite capable of the biological filtration needs for my tanks. The power filters are for mechanical/charcoal filtration, so I'm not real concerned about the bacteria in the power filter, but I am curious. My fish don't all die after a short power failure, so the bacteria can obviously live for a while with things turned off, but I have never seen any studies/statistics. Frank Ball frankb@hpsad.HP.COM