Re: Yikes! Air pump failure
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I know goldy, i came home a few weeks ago and a very paniced mum told me she had to switch all my aquarium stuff off as it was making a very loud and dangerous sound - filter included
Fortunatley this was a very short time before i got home, so i think the filter bacteria survived , i tested the water loads following this and it was the same
What had happened was somehow the filter had got an air bubble in it and was pumping dry air-you could hear it from outside of the house apparently! and it is usually silent
Fortunatley, no damage done-due to mums quick thinking but that could have been a disaster. Not even sure how it happened??? so would be hard to prevent