Marvensmom6
Aquarium Advice Apprentice
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I have a 26 g tank and I bought a new cannister filter and forgot to add old media to seed it. My tank has crashed and there are no nitrates. It gets worse though. I had kept old media sponge in a small cup but it smelled really bad but I put it in new filter anyways as my tank
Had crashed.
Woke up this morning and 4 fish were dead.Did
50% water change and added prime and some biological enhancer. When I consulted with local fish store she said to start filter again even after the old media had started to grow in filter media.
I’m worried that filter is spewing bad bacteria into the tank. I took the old media out.
Today Nitrates did not show up in test and I
have tiny amounts of ammonia and nitrites.
What should I do now? Should I clean the filter media to rid it of bad bacteria or…?
Please advise, thanks
Had crashed.
Woke up this morning and 4 fish were dead.Did
50% water change and added prime and some biological enhancer. When I consulted with local fish store she said to start filter again even after the old media had started to grow in filter media.
I’m worried that filter is spewing bad bacteria into the tank. I took the old media out.
Today Nitrates did not show up in test and I
have tiny amounts of ammonia and nitrites.
What should I do now? Should I clean the filter media to rid it of bad bacteria or…?
Please advise, thanks