Beginning Water Cycle Crysis!

[BGK1]

Bad news first my nursery tank somehow has a small leak in it, and I purchased it brand new not long ago
Thankfully I have a newer slightly bigger nursery tank in the beginning water cycle process..Literally only 2 days in the works.
The problem is I need to get my baby fish into the new tank due to the leak in the current take. Normally I transfer fish after the tank has been established for at least a month and a half,
But as of right now I dont think I have that kind of time. I don't want turn the new tank into a chemical disaster, but I don't know any other way to do it.
Does anyone have any ideas? and if it does require a chemical water cycling treatment does anyone have any pointers? Ive never done it that way before, Thanks for any help!

 

[cambojnr]

Bad news first my nursery tank somehow has a small leak in it, and I purchased it brand new not long ago
Thankfully I have a newer slightly bigger nursery tank in the beginning water cycle process..Literally only 2 days in the works.
The problem is I need to get my baby fish into the new tank due to the leak in the current take. Normally I transfer fish after the tank has been established for at least a month and a half,
But as of right now I dont think I have that kind of time. I don't want turn the new tank into a chemical disaster, but I don't know any other way to do it.
Does anyone have any ideas? and if it does require a chemical water cycling treatment does anyone have any pointers? Ive never done it that way before, Thanks for any help!

just put the filter from the broken tank in to the new one, even though the bacteria will be splitt 50/50 between the 2, but it means that there will be ebough bacteria to cope with the current fish load.

 

[waterdrop]

Whenever there is the possibility of your biofilter not being mature yet it is important to consider any tanks in that situation to be in a "Fish-In" cycling situation and to study and follow the Fish-In document at the top of our sub-forum here. It is important to have and use liquid-reagent based test kits to help you know when to perform water changes and to know how you're doing with those. In the situation where you don't have or can't get the kits for a while then it is better to assume that daily water changes are in order. Use good technique on your water changes - you can find those guidelines in our documents up there too!

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[BGK1]

Whenever there is the possibility of your biofilter not being mature yet it is important to consider any tanks in that situation to be in a "Fish-In" cycling situation and to study and follow the Fish-In document at the top of our sub-forum here. It is important to have and use liquid-reagent based test kits to help you know when to perform water changes and to know how you're doing with those. In the situation where you don't have or can't get the kits for a while then it is better to assume that daily water changes are in order. Use good technique on your water changes - you can find those guidelines in our documents up there too!

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Thank you both for your quick responses! I was wondering about using my old filter, and possibly using some water from the established broken tank if thats possible.
And I will definitely look into the document thank you!