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QT bloom.....can bacterial live on PVC parts?

Discussion in 'General Discussion' started by PotRoast, Oct 24, 2011.

  1. PotRoast

    PotRoast Well-Known ReefKeeper

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    I had to remove some of my PVC parts to catch a couple fish. The PVC parts are used for hiding places and not plumbing.
    Anyways, I did not put them back in and my tank cycled (diatoms). Is there anyway that bacteria would have been living on the PVC?
    I run a canister filter with a sump soaked filter pad. I assumed until now my bacteria was being housed on the filter pad. Now I am wondering if there was healthy colonies on my  PVC parts as well. 
    Your thoughts?
     
  2. Andy The Reef Guy

    Andy The Reef Guy Inactive User

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    yeah absolutely. Nitrifying bacteria are benthically oriented and almost always live on surfaces off all kinds. I don't know what their chances of survival is when they are removed from the substrate from scraping etc. but usually it's not important. Pretty much nitrifying bacteria will live on any surface, pads, glass, pipes, sand, fish, and so on. Yeah runing a "dirty" filter pad will help. Although diatoms are not necessarily a certain sign that you've had a fundamental change in your bacterial community, however it is possible and diatoms may be indicating that.....that sounds weird, it sounds like I'm saying that diatoms don't prove anything but they do prove it....lol what I mean is not quite paradoxical, it's like that saying: absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
     

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