I have a 20 gallon tank set up 5 weeks ago.
It has not yet cycled (prob because of coral which brough ph up to 8.8 or more it was off the scale. I removed it yesterday and tested today and its at 8.0)
The levels are 4ppm ammonia and 0 for both nitrites and nitrates. Water temp is 84°F.*I am doing a fishless cycle with pure ammonia from dr. Tim.
I was just wondering if, to speed up the cycle, its okay to take a little bit of gravel from the goldfish tank and put it in a nylon or something and put it in my tank?
The goldfish is in a VERY small tank, way under a half gallon. Its a small but surprisingly healthy fish. I disapprove of this... but it's my sisters. She won it at a festival last September and wasnt expecting it to live more than a week. Its now almost been a year and its happy... I think... it's always swimming around never distressed. When she changes the water she doesnt add conditioner... I know... wrong... but the levels seem fine. *
So I've been looking at ways to seed my tank and thought why not the goldfish? So for the hell of it I took a test with my API master test kit.(Of the small,unfiltered goldfish tank)--
Ammonia was about .25ppm, nitrites think were 0 i think and nitrates were either 10 or 20ppm. Does this seem like an adequate way of seeding my tank? BY using some gravel and hanging it in my 20g tank with nylon? Im not a fish expert but it looks very vibrant and healthy and not sick. Or is this somehow dangerous? Its been 5 weeks and I need some established media in there!! Is good bacteria good bacteria regardless?
My tank is a 20g freshwater tank. With a fluval c3 filter (just installed) along with a aqueon quietflow 10.(2 filters running at once because the aqueon sucks!)
thank you!!!
It has not yet cycled (prob because of coral which brough ph up to 8.8 or more it was off the scale. I removed it yesterday and tested today and its at 8.0)
The levels are 4ppm ammonia and 0 for both nitrites and nitrates. Water temp is 84°F.*I am doing a fishless cycle with pure ammonia from dr. Tim.
I was just wondering if, to speed up the cycle, its okay to take a little bit of gravel from the goldfish tank and put it in a nylon or something and put it in my tank?
The goldfish is in a VERY small tank, way under a half gallon. Its a small but surprisingly healthy fish. I disapprove of this... but it's my sisters. She won it at a festival last September and wasnt expecting it to live more than a week. Its now almost been a year and its happy... I think... it's always swimming around never distressed. When she changes the water she doesnt add conditioner... I know... wrong... but the levels seem fine. *
So I've been looking at ways to seed my tank and thought why not the goldfish? So for the hell of it I took a test with my API master test kit.(Of the small,unfiltered goldfish tank)--
Ammonia was about .25ppm, nitrites think were 0 i think and nitrates were either 10 or 20ppm. Does this seem like an adequate way of seeding my tank? BY using some gravel and hanging it in my 20g tank with nylon? Im not a fish expert but it looks very vibrant and healthy and not sick. Or is this somehow dangerous? Its been 5 weeks and I need some established media in there!! Is good bacteria good bacteria regardless?
My tank is a 20g freshwater tank. With a fluval c3 filter (just installed) along with a aqueon quietflow 10.(2 filters running at once because the aqueon sucks!)
thank you!!!