object(CI_DB_mysql_result)#22 (7) { ["conn_id"]=>....

[eluser]Federico Baña[/eluser]
you're doing var_dump on the query object, as @sooner said, you need to get the result from it.

Code:

$query = $this->db->query(...);
$actual_rows = $query->result();
var_dump($actual_rows);