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cougargirl50

cougargirl50

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Hi, :hi: I found out last night that the tank that I got from my brother in law is a 20 gallon tank and not a 29 gallon (like he told me).
I have 3 common goldfish in them, if I take the goldfish out (put them in my brother in laws pond), put a heater in (which without the heater right now is registering 68-70) can I put tropicals in without doing anything. So more or less what I would like to do is take out the goldfish and add tropicals right away. Can I do that???


Right now though, I put Bio Spira in the tank, because of switching from the 10 gallon to the 29 gallon I screwed up the cycle, so it's regoing through the cycle process. My nitrite level was very high yesterday so we put the Bio Spira in last night. (hope it works)
 
once the cylce's done (presuming the 10g was cycled, did you moved the filter, or at least the filter media over from the 10g?), add a heater and you'll be good for tropicals :)
 
We found out that it was semi cycled. We were having trouble with it.
Yes we took everything from the 10 gallon even the undergravel filter and put in the 20 gallon, but what we did was not put the filters back in the tank right away and they ended up drying up. My nitrite level was sky high, so someone told me to recycle the tank. So thats what we did.

Thanks :
 
Hopefully the bio-spira will speed things up.

p.s. once the cycles over I'd replace the goldfish with no more the the equivalent amount of 3 goldfish in terms of fish volume. You can keep more tropical fish per gallon than coldwater as there's more oxygen in warmer water. but i'd err on the safe side for now as just because 2 fish are the same size it does'nt necessarilly follow that they take up the same amount of bio-load (the amount they eat and how active they are are also factors). Then if you want more, add them slowly later.

Hope this helps, and good luck!
 
Cold water actually holds more oxygen (and other gasses) than warm ;)
That said, cougargirl50 I agree it's a good idea to remove the goldfish and put them in a pond, they'll be much happier. A 20g is a nice size, there are lots of options when it comes to stocking (wait until the tank is cycled first, and if between removing the goldies and putting in new fish there's a period where the tank will sit empty, be sure to provide the bacteria with a source of ammonia).
 
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