Safe For Bb? Options

[top_view_ranchu]

Hi all!
After a long period, my maintub's BB have been activated this morning. green water gone overnite!

To maintain it, I'll need advise from bros here! When washing tub (always 100%), I'll add in anti chrorine before adding water. That is after washing all the biofilter with the original tub water and replacing them. Do you guys think its safe for the BB?

I really do not want to sctrew up again...it was very difficult to challenge sunlight!

Please help!

[HappyBuddha]

Inevitably you'll kill some BB when changing water. All you could do is minimize the lost.

If I recall correctly, your setup has a seperate filtration box? What I'd do is don't touch the water in the filter box, and clean up the tub only. When you're sure the anti-chlorine has done its job, then power-on the filter to let the now chlorine-free water into the filter. Next, I'd clean the filter box seperately such as between water changes. Again the logic is so that water that flow through the bio-media is chlorine-free.

[top_view_ranchu]

Inevitably you'll kill some BB when changing water.  All you could do is minimize the lost.

If I recall correctly, your setup has a seperate filtration box?  What I'd do is don't touch the water in the filter box, and clean up the tub only.  When you're sure the anti-chlorine has done its job, then power-on the filter to let the now chlorine-free water into the filter.  Next, I'd clean the filter box seperately such as between water changes.  Again the logic is so that water that flow through the bio-media is chlorine-free.

The tub with IOS, so unable to change seperately! Once I start to fill with water, it drain into the filter compartment!

[HappyBuddha]

I'm also using IOuS but I'm not experiencing the problem you described. You can't find a way to plug up the overflow while topping up your tank?

[top_view_ranchu]

I'm also using IOuS but I'm not experiencing the problem you described.      You can't find a way to plug up the overflow while topping up your tank? 

How do you stop water from going into IOS during topping up?

[mountain]

take out the bi0-materials into a pail seperately with old water, then you can even drop a air-stone into it .. you can scrap and clean everything .. then when the water is good and running .. pop the bio-materials back - in.

again, watever method or steps u do there are risk .. so do observe your fish after each water change. if not get a cheapo ammonia test kit and run a quick test after an hour or so to play safe (why ammomia only ??) .. a small price to pay for good fishes ain't it?

[top_view_ranchu]

take out the bi0-materials into a pail seperately with old water, then you can even drop a air-stone into it ..  you can scrap and clean everything .. then when the water is good and running .. pop the bio-materials back - in.

again, watever method or steps u do there are risk .. so do observe your fish after each water change. if not get a cheapo ammonia test kit and run a quick test after an hour or so to play safe (why ammomia only ??) .. a small price to pay for good fishes ain't it?

Good idea! Have actually thought of that before, but don't seem to like the idea of soaking hand in new water while fixing the medias back!
Anyway, will try that tomorrow! Thanks so much!

[top_view_ranchu]

Don't know why this morning hor, tub wall suddenly full of algae leh?
Anybody want to help explain?

[The Matrix]

Don't know why this morning hor, tub wall suddenly full of algae leh?
Anybody want to help explain?

Faint ....
yesterday u mentioned tub clear up ... your BB start working. one form of algae lost the war to the filter.

today u got algae on the wall ... another form of algae start to work.

nothing unusual lah. normal.

[top_view_ranchu]

Faint ....
yesterday u mentioned tub clear up ... your BB start working. one form of algae lost the war to the filter.

today u got algae on the wall ... another form of algae start to work.

nothing unusual lah. normal.

Really faint liao!
Now in the process of water change, see what happens next!

[CyberET]

hehe.. good stuffs le the algae on the wall, i would just leave it there

[top_view_ranchu]

hehe.. good stuffs le the algae on the wall, i would just leave it there

Ya hor! Good for colouration. Remember when I first set up tub they were nibbling at it whole day and cud see significant improvement in colour. The algae remained in the tub for a long time.
But worrying part is after that, green water took over!