Canister filter ??

Coralgurl · #1 03-10-2012, 04:39 PM

I left my canister filter (fluval 405) full of water but not running for the last week as I wasn't sure I was going to keep this tank running. The water level was low as i moved quite a bit when i transferred everything to my other tank. I did keep the power heads going, still snails, crabs and a couple of corals and lr. Now that we've decided to keep it going, I've filled the tank back up (was down about 1/3), I opened the canister and it does not smell good. I had just changed all the media and cleaned it 2 weeks ago, so my question is should I change everything again, or just give it a good cleaning?

#2 03-10-2012, 04:56 PM

Just give it a good cleaning. FYI, if you turn your canister filter off for longer than 30 minutes, the majority of all that good bacteria is pretty much dead.

Leah · #3 03-10-2012, 05:24 PM

Why not leave it off?

Coralgurl · #4 03-10-2012, 05:32 PM

Good idea and I may be able to eventually. I was running a tunze 9011 skimmer on this tank as well, but I'm sending it back as it's not working, so I would have Nothing other than the lr for filtration. I was thinking of leaving the skimmer off as it wasn't doing much and the tank was running fine.