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From: richard@gryphon.UUCP
Newsgroups: alt.aquaria
Subject: Re: turning the filter off?
Message-ID: <2467@gryphon.CTS.COM>
Date: Thu, 3-Dec-87 01:12:23 EST
Article-I.D.: gryphon.2467
Posted: Thu Dec  3 01:12:23 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 6-Dec-87 20:02:45 EST
References: <4381@ihlpg.ATT.COM>
Reply-To: richard@gryphon.CTS.COM (Richard Sexton)
Organization: Trailing Edge Technology, Redondo Beach, CA
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Summary: if you are carefull

In article <4381@ihlpg.ATT.COM> dalka@ihlpg.ATT.COM (Ken Dalka) writes:
>I have a salt water tank and I would like to get some filter-feeding
>type invertebrates like anemones or scallops or both. I'm told that
>what you do is add some liquid type food for them to sift out of
>the water while turning the filter off for a couple of hours.

Yup. Thats why they're called filter feeders. They filter small 
particles of food from the water.

>Also,
>I'm told that when adding trace elements and using the polyfilter
>media instead of carbon you should turn the filter off or remove
>the polyfilter for a day or two until the trace elements "mix up".
>It recommends this on the polyfilter package.

Doesn't make any sense to me, but if thats what the directions
say, then follow them. Perhaps they are concerned with  the
trace elements going into solution s l o w l y.

>Anyway, I have a
>canister filter so its difficult to just remove the polyfilter
>so I assume I should just turn it off but won't the anerobic
                                                     ^^^^^^^^
I think you mean aerobic. Anaerobic are the nasty H2S 
producing ones.

>bacteria die if I turn it off for too long like 2 days?

Well, I would call the polyfilter people and find out why the 
2 day deal. If its just to introduce the traces slowly, just
throw small amounts in, over a week.

>					Ken Dalka (Bell Labs)


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