no, water from your new tanks will not have much of anything to help establish your filter. I reccomend moving gravel and decor from your old tank to your new tank.
need suggestions for stocking a 55gal
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sorry jim1212, I should have been more clear. I meant to say that I wanted to put the critters in the two 30gal tanks (angel & pleco) into the 55 gallon tank in order to simplify things. yep, i know about goldfish and a bit about tropicals. Thanks for the note though, it might help someone reading this thread.
Cheers,
Alex
Cheers,
Alex
I have a big piece of fake wood in the Marble Angel's tank which I will place in the 55gallon to begin cycling. problem is the chocolate cat won't be evicted from it easily. I am heading off to purchace a "rugh", heater, and tank covers.
Cheers,
Alex
Cheers,
Alex
Run your new filter on your old tank for like 2 weeks to build a good Biospira culture. Putting a small amount of gravel from the established tank into your new filter will help speed this up also.
Thanks for the tip Shagmaster. I have just taken down one of the 30gal. tanks, and I will add some of the gravel to a spare media pouch, and place it in the canister filter. Sad to see the pleco go to the lsf <sniff>.
Regards,
Alex
Regards,
Alex
just a side note..I have added young angels with an older male that lost his mate..luckily they turned out to both be females..and he paired up with one of the females..the lone female was then placed in a 29 I later added a wild male peruvian scalre ,turned out to be male..and they paired up.
so you can add angels to the mix if you choose to. you have plenty of tanks if you need to move fish due to aggression.
so you can add angels to the mix if you choose to. you have plenty of tanks if you need to move fish due to aggression.
Thanks Star_rider. I was concerned about the aggression, and I really didn't want to have to return the younger angels, for a "reduced" refund. I decided to move my marble angel by himself into the 55gal. and build a community around him and a choco cat which the angel currently lives with. I am going to use one of the 30gal. tanks to move my betta and his two cory cats into, and build a community around them.
Cheers,
Alex
Cheers,
Alex
