Can Get Rid Of High Nitrite Levels !

[KezJona]

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what do you mean deleted ?

He means his own post. He deleted it as it was no longer valid.

 

[the_lock_man]

Deleted as unnecessary.

what do you mean deleted ?

He means his own post. He deleted it as it was no longer valid.

Correct - my comments were pretty much exactly what had previously been said, therefore my post was unnecessary. There is no facility to delete a post from this forum, for some reason.

 

[coldcazzie]

thats great, that means you're probably nearer the end than the beginning keep.doing the water changes, you'll get there eventually!

putting water from your established tank will make no difference - there are no bacteria in the water.

question: when you started this tank, did you put stuff from your established filter into your new filter?

also, despite tizer's shocking lack of tact, he does have a point - the large font is incredibly annoying. sorry!

hey i squeezed the filter sponge from my established tank into some clean water and spread it out evenly across the tank i couldnt use the catridge from my other filter as it was different and i hope the font is better lol

mulm is a great start, you know you can cut up filter sponges with scissors and cram them into new filters too.

can you i will give it a try thanks

That would be great - adding a little bit from each of your other filters would really help this one and you would not lose anything from your other tanks that they couldn't bounce back from within a couple of hours.

 

[Miles_hot]

To be honest I don't think that an occational refresh on the "beginner's" section hurts, especially if doing something after a long break from it. Can you pop the fish in your new aquarium into one of your other tanks and get the cycle under control (using bottles ammonia as the source)? Putting the mature media from your exiting aquarium will speed things along, indeed given that you can rob 1/3 of the media from an established tank (replacing it of course) there's no reason why you couldn't pack the new filter out entirely with mature media from your other (larger) tanks and have a completely cycled tank from the get go! Though I would probably still run a few days of testing that it can process 4ppm of ammonia within 12 hours just to prove to myself that all had gone as well as it should

HTH

Miles

 

[XeroTolerance]

To be honest I don't think that an occational refresh on the "beginner's" section hurts, especially if doing something after a long break from it. Can you pop the fish in your new aquarium into one of your other tanks and get the cycle under control (using bottles ammonia as the source)? Putting the mature media from your exiting aquarium will speed things along, indeed given that you can rob 1/3 of the media from an established tank (replacing it of course) there's no reason why you couldn't pack the new filter out entirely with mature media from your other (larger) tanks and have a completely cycled tank from the get go! Though I would probably still run a few days of testing that it can process 4ppm of ammonia within 12 hours just to prove to myself that all had gone as well as it should

HTH

Miles

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