AdamHorton
Aquarium Advice FINatic
I have a 150G saltwater tank and I use live rock for biological filtration. During the entire process, I have kept two bags of the bio-max material from AC filters in one of the overflow cups so that it would grow beneficial bacteria on it. I did this so that if I needed to have a quarantine tank, I would not have to worry about that quarantine tank having to cycle.
Sounds good in theory, but every time I've tried this, the quarantine tank ends up cycling anyways, just like I'm putting in a blank bag of bio-max. Now I can do a fishless cycle on a quarantine tank in preparation for buying a new fish, but what if one of my fish gets sick? I'd rather not use LR from my tank since it would probably be ruined by the QT process. Am I doing something wrong here?
Sounds good in theory, but every time I've tried this, the quarantine tank ends up cycling anyways, just like I'm putting in a blank bag of bio-max. Now I can do a fishless cycle on a quarantine tank in preparation for buying a new fish, but what if one of my fish gets sick? I'd rather not use LR from my tank since it would probably be ruined by the QT process. Am I doing something wrong here?