Northernforest
03-03-2008, 12:42 PM
Well I am starting to get really excited now. I picked up my Eco complete substrate today and my new coralife 260w PC light is coming in latter this week .I plan on setting up the 100gallon tank next weekend. At this time I have 10 full size angels that I am going to have to store away so I can drain and scrub down the tank.
At this time the tank does have quite a bit of algae both hair, brown and regular green algae. What my plans are is to drain the tank. Take ever thing out. Scrub off the algae. Run semi hot water over the sides of the tank where the algae was and then start up the setup. To fight off new tank syndrome I plan on not changing the filter media in my Rena Filstar XP3 canister filter. It was changed out 3 weeks ago. I also have my Discus tank which is a very clean and healthy thank that I do 75% water changes on 3 times a week directly above what will be my plant tank. I am going to drain about 35 gallons into the new-planted tank from my discus tank. If my discus tank is healthy I don’t see it causing any problems.
The only questions I have is since my tank is overloaded with algae now will not cleaning the filter in attempts to carry over the old bio load going to cause algae in the new tank. I did not think so because there is no algae in the filter but I wanted to see what you guys think. The reason why I am trying to carry over the bio load and fight off the new tank syndrome is I don’t have any other tanks big enough to house my full size angel fish for a long time. I would like to set it up let it run for 6-10 hours and then put the fish back in it. My water will be coming out of my aging barrels.
Also I don’t have allot of plants to add in at this time. But the few that I do have algae on them. Will the algae carry over from the old plants into the new tank? If so what can I do to get rid of it? It is mostly Anubias, Java fern and a few sward plants.
At this time the tank does have quite a bit of algae both hair, brown and regular green algae. What my plans are is to drain the tank. Take ever thing out. Scrub off the algae. Run semi hot water over the sides of the tank where the algae was and then start up the setup. To fight off new tank syndrome I plan on not changing the filter media in my Rena Filstar XP3 canister filter. It was changed out 3 weeks ago. I also have my Discus tank which is a very clean and healthy thank that I do 75% water changes on 3 times a week directly above what will be my plant tank. I am going to drain about 35 gallons into the new-planted tank from my discus tank. If my discus tank is healthy I don’t see it causing any problems.
The only questions I have is since my tank is overloaded with algae now will not cleaning the filter in attempts to carry over the old bio load going to cause algae in the new tank. I did not think so because there is no algae in the filter but I wanted to see what you guys think. The reason why I am trying to carry over the bio load and fight off the new tank syndrome is I don’t have any other tanks big enough to house my full size angel fish for a long time. I would like to set it up let it run for 6-10 hours and then put the fish back in it. My water will be coming out of my aging barrels.
Also I don’t have allot of plants to add in at this time. But the few that I do have algae on them. Will the algae carry over from the old plants into the new tank? If so what can I do to get rid of it? It is mostly Anubias, Java fern and a few sward plants.