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Post by jon carman on Jul 13, 2011 7:11:25 GMT -6
that little chlorine shoulnt kill off enough bacteria to make a huge difference. it should rebound fairly quickly. i have used fishless cycle and fish cycle, and fishless is faster.
since you other tank is established i would just keep adding rocks, substrate and media from that tank. once you are good to go, i would add fish slowly, because if tank you can overwelm bio if too many fish are added to quickly.
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Post by cbryll on Oct 20, 2011 8:55:23 GMT -6
Great post 'Jess Puff'! I just learned alot, but also now have MORE questions.
I am presently at 2.5 weeks into cycling my new 16 gallon tank. I bought four zebra danios to help and so far they are super happy,active and healthy. My ammonia levels are rising nicely, but not toxic. No nitrates yet. So, this is going to be a slow process.
I just picked up a 10 gallon tank and for a week now it's just sitting there all setup and running. So based on this great information that was shared I'm going to try the 'fishless' cycling. I bought a 75 gallon Mbuna setup already established so I will do the method where I run the hob filter in the 75 gal tank for a week.
MY questions are .... a) for fishless cycling am I going to have to add ammonia almost daily? and b) if I use 50% water from an established tank aren't I getting nitrates (which are bad and undesirable) and won't that make it harder for a newbie to figure out if i'm cycled (because I'll be testing for nitrates - but the new water has nitrates already so I won't see a difference).
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Post by jon carman on Oct 20, 2011 9:14:18 GMT -6
If you have a 75 that is established, use filter media, substrate, and water from it and you wont need to cycle at all. Nitrates are desirable, just in small amounts. They are the biproduct of the cycle. Ammonia and nitrites are the extremely lethal two. Nitrates are kept in check through water changes.
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Post by signde on Oct 20, 2011 21:42:17 GMT -6
yeah what jon said. if you have dirty media from a 75 this way more than enough to jump start a 10 gallon.
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Post by kyangelsncorys on Oct 20, 2011 22:09:54 GMT -6
i have a 75 that has been set up for yrs now and i keep a sponge filter running in it so i can use it in a new tank start up when i take a sponge out i put another in so i always have one ready to go. i run a power head on some of my sponge.
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Post by cbryll on Oct 21, 2011 14:47:26 GMT -6
I have a small HOB filter all ready to put into the 75 gallon ... but realized I'm out of electrical outlets - LOL
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Post by davidtcb1 on Oct 21, 2011 18:19:39 GMT -6
A never ending problem in the aquarium world! lol
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Post by cbryll on Oct 23, 2011 7:21:00 GMT -6
I bet.
I added another power strip to the back of the 75 gallon and then figured out the clearance behind the back of the tank and the wall isn't big enough for a HOB (not even a small one). ARGH! going to have to think of something else.
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