just bought some christmas presents...

[~*LuvMyKribs*~]

You say that you have a fish tank in your room?

Well! If you wanted to cycle your sister's new tank in a few days just simply put the filter media from your tank into her new filter, plus a little stocking full of your gravel. The tank should be cycled in a week.

To aid in this process though, because you need to feed the bacteria from your old filter, put the betta and a few cories into the new tank. Bettas can breathe surface air and cories are really hardy. They will produce waste to help the bacteria multiply to cycle the new tank.

I cycled my 33 gallon this way- i added the sponge from my 20 gal filter into the new filter and added my betta and three pepper cories. The tank cycled in 5 days and was ready to go- and everyone was happy and did really well.

This is the easiest way- and because you aren't realy so much 'starting from scratch' the fish won't be really hurt by the cycling process.

 

[SnakeIce]

I have a angelfish and a betta in my 20 gallon tank. the betta picked on my angel more than the other way around... but then I have a really laid back angelfish and betta.

I saw some references to small angelfish. I would like to say that there are no small angelfish, stunted angels, yes but no true small angels. basically the angels would have to be undernurished to be small

 

[Lauren]

filter sizes are different, so I can't share that. I have some goodies in my tank that she can have to help her own tank come around, little tid bits I was planning of getting rid of anywyas.

I need to read up again on starting a new tank. I've only done it correctly once, and that was a few months ago. Just a matter of remembering the water change schedual and time table. We'll be fine. I have the litterature, just got to do the reading.

She came home today and saw five more presents under the tree... she's already excited.