Heres my quaratine tank

[KSum89]

Heres my quaratine tank, i just got n threw in a 2 inch and 1 inch pvc. I wanna add a piece of base rock but i read im better off not doing it.

My filter from my 55 is running on it now, hope it does whatevr it needs to do to sjip the cycle phrase so i can order a few chromis from liveaquaria. To qt then add to my 55.. No one helped me on the cycle stage in my thread. So hope im doing it right.

 

[Maya]

Looks good. Test your water. If the filter is an established filter.. You shouldn't have too many problems. We do pretty significant water changes on ours. About 10 gallons every few days which was 33%. Our QT is a 30 gallon long. Just do your water changes straight out of the DT or sump.

 

[KSum89]

Looks good. Test your water. If the filter is an established filter.. You shouldn't have too many problems. We do pretty significant water changes on ours. About 10 gallons every few days which was 33%. Our QT is a 30 gallon long. Just do your water changes straight out of the DT or sump.

I think i messed up the fast cycle i wanted, i made new water and put it in, then i removed my filter from my 55 and put it on this 17 gal bowfront. My ammonia tested as .25 ammonia or is that a good thing? I was expecting 0 ammonia..

 

[Maya]

No .25 ammonia isn't great.

 

[KSum89]

No .25 ammonia isn't great.

I should have taken some water out of my main tank.. But didnt kno, no one responded

How long is this cycle gonna be

 

[Maya]

Is there anything in the tank? Or did the filter have some die off? Where did the ammonia come from?

 

[KSum89]

Is there anything in the tank? Or did the filter have some die off? Where did the ammonia come from?

From the filter probably

 

[KSum89]

Ok just tested it and ammonias at 0 again. I took out just 2 gallons n changed it.

 

[Maya]

That's better. Just keep an eye on it. If you took the filter out of water you probably had a little bit of die off. You should be fine.

 

[KSum89]

When will i be able to qt fish in it? Since ammonia is at 0

 

[Maya]

I would check it again tomorrow. I would hate to tell you to put fish into a tank that isn't ready. If it's zero tomorrow evening it was probably just filter die off. We usually
let ours run a day or two prior to placing livestock if we can. I've never had an ammonia spike though using ours.

 

[KSum89]

Its back up to .25

 

[melosu58]

Moved to it`s own thread.