I dismantled a large tank that had two FX6’s. I drained one filter and apparently forgot to drain the other. Then two weeks later I dismantled and cleaned them. The one on the left looked normal, but the one on the right, sitting in water, went anoxic. I’m drying all this out, and it will be maybe years before I use them again.
Posted by twitch_delta_blues
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I can smell this picture
Actually that’s not horrible. The beneficial bacteria are still in there if you hooked it back up. But yeah probably worth cleaning the pads anyways.
I have a similar story, except I knew I didn’t drain it or clean the filter lol. I let the filter sit for like 3 or 4 months. Was a Fluval 207.
When I hooked it back up to the tank months later it re- cycled Instantly. Bacteria are amazingly resilient. I laugh now when people say stuff like the power or pumps going out for a day kills your biological filter.
How big is the tank to have two of those on it?
If you let a cannister sit for a a while with no water flow the detritus will build up and form hydrogen sulfide. Yeah, dry them out for storage.
On another topic I really wish I could pull an intervention and get you guys to stop putting biomedia in filters or using it in general. It doesn’t do anything. Bacteria aren’t programmed to migrate to mass produced inert filter media, but the people who sell this crap need you to believe it. My cannisters are all stuffed full floss and are cleaned monthly.