Hi, Im quarantining a new fish for my main tank. THe frist few days hes been living in fresh made saltwater with identical water params to my main tank. Ammonia is starting to rise, and I was wondering if doing a water change with my main tank water into the quarantine could help out the biological filtration in the uncycled quarantine. Water params are pristine in the main tank.
Mixing tank water into quarantine??
- Thread starter rusty-nail-z
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Yeah that does make more sense, on that note, how do you get the good bacteria into a quarantine tank. Unless u have the tank running continuously your inevitably gonna have to restart it, as I have. THen you start the cycle thing all over and are in effect running a fishy cycle while quaranting your new fish
depending on the fitration you are using in the main tank.
I keep a sponge prefilter on m a powerhead in the main tank. I transfer that sponge into the QT when needed.
you can use bio balls (sump) or simply transfer some of the rock rubble from the regugium to the QT
I keep a sponge prefilter on m a powerhead in the main tank. I transfer that sponge into the QT when needed.
you can use bio balls (sump) or simply transfer some of the rock rubble from the regugium to the QT
thanx for all the suggestions. I have top fin power filters in all my tanks. They have those mesh flitler media in them. Would putting a mesh media packet ( no carbon in it) into my main tank powerfilter, then trhowing that into my qt power filter work? If so, how long should I have my mesh filter in the main tank before throwing it into the qt?