Angela1108
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So our little guppy tank (eclipse system 12) started leaking a little bit. My husband and I agree we should get a new one anyways and upgrade to like a 20g. No biggie.
Here is where our dilemma and creative peoples' help will come in. The current tank doesn't have a HOB filter. It is attached to the hood of the tank. Usually I would do the run the old and new filter at the same time to bring over the good bacteria to the new tank but we obviously can't do this :/ also we were thinking of switching to sand or Eco complete instead of gravel for the plants. I know doing this is like a double whammy for keeping the bacteria. We will keep as much of the old water as we can which would probably be around half of the old water.
Good news: they are all guppies so at least they are relatively hardy for cycling. Now our creative people question- what have you guys done when going from NON HOB to another tank- any tricks or anything you guys did to make them sort of work?
I see lots of prime and water changes in our future
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Here is where our dilemma and creative peoples' help will come in. The current tank doesn't have a HOB filter. It is attached to the hood of the tank. Usually I would do the run the old and new filter at the same time to bring over the good bacteria to the new tank but we obviously can't do this :/ also we were thinking of switching to sand or Eco complete instead of gravel for the plants. I know doing this is like a double whammy for keeping the bacteria. We will keep as much of the old water as we can which would probably be around half of the old water.
Good news: they are all guppies so at least they are relatively hardy for cycling. Now our creative people question- what have you guys done when going from NON HOB to another tank- any tricks or anything you guys did to make them sort of work?
I see lots of prime and water changes in our future
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