Excellent Reminder

[Darlene]

I know threads usually belong in just one forum. This was posted in the turtle/tortoise forum & I thought it may be an exception. This is an excellent post put up by zhiv9. A great reminder for more experienced hobbyist & an excellent bit of information for the newbies. Thanks zhiv9 !!

"I posted this on a couple of other aquatic specific sites so I thought I'd mention it here. If you are part of the power outages in the last couple days, chances are in the first couple hours the majority of the beneficial bacteria in your filter will have died from lack of oxygen. Till it regrows(several weeks) it might be a good idea to change the water a couple extra times to help with resultant ammonia and nitrite spikes that will occur. This is particularly important if you keep fish."