TheNamelessPoet
Aquarium Advice Freak
I was planning on purchasing a tank but my roomate has decided to sell me her 20 gallon that is currently set up as she just got a 55.
She also is letting me keep the rocks and finter, infact the only think I have to buy is a heater, and m own fish of course. My question is this however.
If I can get her to leave about 2-3 gallons of water in the tank should i just refill the tank and use the same filter? I would like to get my fish asap as I have been waiting for 2 weeks already to get the tank while she looked for a new one. She ha had fish in hers for about 2-3 weeks and I believe she cycled it since she has had it for a while, and has had no casualties. When she takes the water and puts it in her new tanks (which I tried to get her to not do so I could start with my fish right away ) she said she was taking what water she could from it.
Basicly I want to know if I should start over or use her rocks and filter to get the bacteria a jump start.
As Stated in a prev post. I am going to get a small pleco (clown I believe I found) a school of neons and 2-3 small catcish (probably 2) im going with the neons last because its been stated about 100 times that they are not the hardiest so I might as well wait for everything else that is a little hardier to grab hold
She also is letting me keep the rocks and finter, infact the only think I have to buy is a heater, and m own fish of course. My question is this however.
If I can get her to leave about 2-3 gallons of water in the tank should i just refill the tank and use the same filter? I would like to get my fish asap as I have been waiting for 2 weeks already to get the tank while she looked for a new one. She ha had fish in hers for about 2-3 weeks and I believe she cycled it since she has had it for a while, and has had no casualties. When she takes the water and puts it in her new tanks (which I tried to get her to not do so I could start with my fish right away ) she said she was taking what water she could from it.
Basicly I want to know if I should start over or use her rocks and filter to get the bacteria a jump start.
As Stated in a prev post. I am going to get a small pleco (clown I believe I found) a school of neons and 2-3 small catcish (probably 2) im going with the neons last because its been stated about 100 times that they are not the hardiest so I might as well wait for everything else that is a little hardier to grab hold