im getting a bigger tank a longer for my P. it seems unhappy or just stressed, but anyhow a bigger tank is always better. i dont have enough pumps or filter to start cycling the new tank im getting today. is there something i can do to make the cycling super fast?
such thing as a over night cycle?
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Moving as much of the filter media, gravel, and anything else you can from your old aquarium to the new one will help jump-start the cycle. It may not happen overnight...but it will be quicker.
I don't actually think it is possible to cycle a new tank in a night, unless all you are doing it changing the tank and replacing all the old substrate and filters.
When I did a "fishless cycle" on my out-grow tanks for my baby gouramis it took about a week and half-say 10 days. This involved using 1 conditioned bio-wheel (Penguin 330 filter) and some gravel from the main tank, and a bunch of Cambomba and Corkscrew. If you used a lot of conditioned gravel and filteration you could get close to an overnight cycle, I'd still ease up on feedings and carefully monitor all your water parameters for the first couple of weeks just to be sure.
What's that saying? Something like... "the only things that happen fast with fish tanks are all bad."