How do you know that you have more than suffiecient biological filtration?

When you do a water change and find a very decomposed julie and never smelled it even when you did your morning sniff test from 6 inches away.

In the spirit of barra Harry carked it.

I found his sadly decomposed body attached to the intake. I thought it was a leaf at first. I will believe in my fairy tale that he could not live with out his life mate Sally. Yes I name my fish if you want to laugh right now go look at my picture in the show your face thread and shut up. ;)

Harry is survived by two mated pairs of his children, his last several batches of fry, and now several batches of his grand fry.

But either way it was nice to know that I had plenty of room for my bacteria colonies to explode. I can't imagine how pissed I would have been if the tank had crashed. Just a little food for thought on an important filtration topic, surface area.

PS.
No to say sorry, Harry lived a very complete life for his species so I am not sad or anything.

when you see your missing a neon tetra one morning and find it in 2 hours as a pure white skeleton :blink: so much biology makes me dizzy :blink:

That would be a different kind of "biological" filtration, ie the other fish ate him/her kind.

Yes, but bacteria took the color away from the bones, getting bones pure white in such little time is very good

Do you have a source for that claim?

I've saw that after time the color got white and whiter, and most of it was done by the snails, but the last bit had to be done by bacteria as the color in bone cant just come out from water, so yeah

Perhaps fish bones are fairly white to begin with? Clue, they are.

So according to you, whatever it is in the bones that give them color must not be water soluable. Please name your mystery color providing substance and provide references to support that it is insoluable in water.

That is the kind of information I am asking for when I say "name your source". Not just random speculation...

heh, heh, well umm... 1 thing to say.. were getting pretty close to being off topic, so lets stop aiming at the newbie and forget what i said

I saw a dirty jobs recently where Mike Rowe went and worked with a company that cleaned up skeletons for scientific use. They used bacteria for a lot of things such as flesh digestion. When it came to whitening they used various chemical bleaching methods. Should they have had a bacteria that could do this in hours I am sure they would use it.

Most any fish I have cleaned in my life has had white bones to the best of my recollection.

It's about good information , not picking on the newb. Had I said something simular Seedy would have asked the same of me. In fact Seedy has questioned things I have said in the past and I respect him more for it.

yeah, i just remembered that episode when i typed that, freakin huge whale, i was pretty tired when i said the first thing, dunno what was in my head :blink:
after getting to know me for a bit, you'll know that i'm crazy

Plus im still only 13,