DukeNukem713
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So I have a 30gal tank that is cycling right now. i believe its at the end stages of the cycling because the amonia is 0 and the nitrite is getting lower. its low enough so that my 2 female guppies and 2 of their fry are surviving.
Now i was planning on redoing my tank and getting new substrate for it. right now i have crappy looking gravel and i want sand and flourite sand substrite for plants and cool design. i was wondering that if i emptied my tank of the water and the substrate, then put in new substrate and filled it back up with water and put my fish back in, would i be interrupting the cycling process? if so then how and by how much?
my filter media is pretty good, the filter came with 2 pads that have so much crap on them (which btw is so much that water wont flow through them, how do i fix that?), and my roommate gave me one of his filter pads yesterday, plus the fourth one is starting to look pretty mucky.
thanks in advance!
Now i was planning on redoing my tank and getting new substrate for it. right now i have crappy looking gravel and i want sand and flourite sand substrite for plants and cool design. i was wondering that if i emptied my tank of the water and the substrate, then put in new substrate and filled it back up with water and put my fish back in, would i be interrupting the cycling process? if so then how and by how much?
my filter media is pretty good, the filter came with 2 pads that have so much crap on them (which btw is so much that water wont flow through them, how do i fix that?), and my roommate gave me one of his filter pads yesterday, plus the fourth one is starting to look pretty mucky.
thanks in advance!