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I just thought of this today. What if I took 5 gallons out of my 29 gal and put it into my NEW 5 gal. Would this be an instant cycle? I don't know for sure or not so I thought I'd ask. Thanks.
SCFatz said:Just as a point of curiosity....
After the new filter has been running on the old tank and is ready to move to the new tank...it seems to me the next thing to do would be do a deep gravel clean out of the established tank and transfer the dirty water to the new tank.I'm not suggesting this...just asking.
I've never heard this mentioned here and I have no idea if it would work or help but to me it it seems logical.Would that not transfer much of the needed bacteria?
Or am I missing something?
I will also be performing an experiment on my next tank. Looking at getting a 20G long here shortly. Everything in it will be new, and will not move any cycled material over. All I'm going to do is do a gravel vac on my 26G into a 2G bucket and add to the tank daily, and see if my theory is correct that the tank will cycle in a few days. And since I'm planning on it being a planted tank, I'm not worried about any mess. Will count the number of buckets of gunk it takes til the tank is cycled
just wanted to chime in that the bacteria isn't floating around in the water so it does no good to move dirty water. Most of the bacteria is in teh filter pad.
SCFatz said:I will also be performing an experiment on my next tank. Looking at getting a 20G long here shortly. Everything in it will be new, and will not move any cycled material over. All I'm going to do is do a gravel vac on my 26G into a 2G bucket and add to the tank daily, and see if my theory is correct that the tank will cycle in a few days. And since I'm planning on it being a planted tank, I'm not worried about any mess. Will count the number of buckets of gunk it takes til the tank is cycled
Interesting.I've got at least one,maybe two (don't ask,a MTS over correction perhaps lol) 55g coming to my house in the next week or two so I'll be following this closely.For me its not a matter of "rushing" but more about getting it right as well as gaining a better understanding of how it all works.
I cycled with fish with my first tank and I either way I have learned enough here to avoid that challange.
When do you expect the 20g?Perhaps we can kick off a thread as we cycle them up.Might be useful.What do you think?
Fatz