LadyWang
Aquarium Advice Apprentice
Hi all, im new here and have some questions about setting up a new tank. So heres the story real quick about 2 years ago I decided I wanted to get into the hobby of fish keeping, so I saved some money, found a 55 gal on craigslist, came home set it up and then realized it took alot more than just adding water and fish. I did some reading and realized I needed to cycle it. Well I was way to impatient at the time so I decided to go the route of cycling with fish. I was told by the Petsmart people to just get a couple goldfish because they are Hardy and produce lots of waste so after a couple months I would have a pretty good biological system and then I could take them out, do a major water change (80-90%) and start my semi-agressive tropical community. After having them a couple months and doing more reading I realized the torture I probably put them through and so I couldn't make myself "just flush them" as I was told, and trying to rehome them was impossible so I just decided that I would keep them, so here I am almost 2 years later with my fully cycled goldfish tank and 2 huge fish. Now my quesion is this, im wanting to set up a 15 gal tank for 3 adf's and my betta. The filter on that one is a topfin 20gal which takes large filter pads, the same size pads as one of the filters on my goldfish tank would it work to put my all my decor thats going in my 15 in with my goldfish for a couple weeks to a month so the BB can grow on it then put it in the 15 and use a dirty filter pad in the filter (i would run it in the 55 but it doesnt fit on the side) along with some gravel for seeding. Would this be enough BB to add my frogs right away or would I need to still fishless cycle with ammoina? Any help on this matter is greatly appreciated. if I can successfuly do this then im going to get another 55 for my long wanted tropical, but thats another day lol.