nikismithwin
Aquarium Advice Apprentice
So I have a 20g that had been setup for a couple months. Had a couple guppies in it, 1 bee shrimp, a mystery snail, marimo ball, driftwood, bubbler and a potted lucky bamboo. I wanted to make a home for my pair of rams, so I moved everyone to an established 10g, broke down my tank, added play sand, put back the driftwood, heater, and bamboo. I put a new bag in my filter and left out the carbon. That was Saturday.
My son adopted a 40g tank w/fish. It houses an albino Chinese algae eater, albino rainbow shark, a tiger barb, 2 green barbs, and a neon barb. Nobody in that tank gets along. One of the green barbs was so aggressive everyone else was hiding, swimming vertically, super stressed. He would engage in mouth to mouth combat with the others till I couldn't watch it anymore and yesterday I scooped him up and threw him in the uncycled 20g I had just set up. A friend has extra tanks and offered to take all the fish my son adopted and separate them.
Here's my dilemma... I had originally planned on cycling the tank by feeding it flake food, not fish. But now that I've put a fish in it if I take it out will the cycle starve? Should I put the guppies in to replace the barb? I've been checking the water daily and haven't seen any ammonia yet but its only been 3 days so maybe it hasn't had time to build up...
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My son adopted a 40g tank w/fish. It houses an albino Chinese algae eater, albino rainbow shark, a tiger barb, 2 green barbs, and a neon barb. Nobody in that tank gets along. One of the green barbs was so aggressive everyone else was hiding, swimming vertically, super stressed. He would engage in mouth to mouth combat with the others till I couldn't watch it anymore and yesterday I scooped him up and threw him in the uncycled 20g I had just set up. A friend has extra tanks and offered to take all the fish my son adopted and separate them.
Here's my dilemma... I had originally planned on cycling the tank by feeding it flake food, not fish. But now that I've put a fish in it if I take it out will the cycle starve? Should I put the guppies in to replace the barb? I've been checking the water daily and haven't seen any ammonia yet but its only been 3 days so maybe it hasn't had time to build up...
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