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There is no reason to use carbon in your tank unless you are trying to remove meds. Carbon is usless after 7 days. You can use filter floss to polish your water and to remove small particles and its a lot cheaper.
What size of tank do you have? What kind of filter is on the tank? I would only vac half one side of the tank each week and would only clean the filter out in old tank water as needed you shouldnt need to do that more than once a month.
The last tank that I cycled it took 7 days. It was a fishless cycle I used bottled ammonia and used old media from one of my other tanks. It was great! I would do that again if I needed to cycle another tank.
Why not run both of the filters for the same time for a few weeks? Then you could elimate your TopFin filter all together. When I first started I bought a TopFin 60. I had it for a couple of weeks then took it back and upgraded to a AC 110. I never could understand how the Topfin would hold the...