Cycling With Water From A Cycled Tank

[commoncarp]

My hospital tanks filter was killed by some antibiotics I used on a fish, so I have cleaned the filter and going to start again, I have put some cycled water from my mature tank into the hospital tank and added some platy fry, will it cycle faster?

 

[mattlee]

water from mature tanks isnt cycled, its the filter that has to cycle..... bacteria will also grow on substrate and ornaments etc but minimal. adding water from your cycled tank will have no effect on the new cycle im affraid

 

[commoncarp]

water from mature tanks isnt cycled, its the filter that has to cycle..... bacteria will also grow on substrate and ornaments etc but minimal. adding water from your cycled tank will have no effect on the new cycle im affraid

Could I squeeze the sponge from my mature filter onto the hospital tanks filter sponge to speed up the process?

 

[Ryefish]

if you put some of the substrate and ornaments in there it might help out.
If your other tank had high tracings of ammonia, nitrites and nitrates in the water then adding that water and adding some substrate/ornaments to your hospital could work

 

[mattlee]

water from mature tanks isnt cycled, its the filter that has to cycle..... bacteria will also grow on substrate and ornaments etc but minimal. adding water from your cycled tank will have no effect on the new cycle im affraid

Could I squeeze the sponge from my mature filter onto the hospital tanks filter sponge to speed up the process?

yes thi will help but it will still need a source of ammonia to multiply and fully cycle

 

[commoncarp]

I cut some mature sponge and put it in the hospital filter, I do have 6 platy fry and will feed them so should create some ammonia, should the tank be cycled quickly now?

 

[mattlee]

I cut some mature sponge and put it in the hospital filter, I do have 6 platy fry and will feed them so should create some ammonia, should the tank be cycled quickly now?

a mature sponge will instantly cycle a filter but only to a certain bioload which depends on how mature the sponge is and how big....

6 platy fry wont have a massive bioload so the bacteria will reduce to the required load in time, if the amount of bacteria isnt ample enough for the fry then water changes daily ubtil it can catch up.

 

[commoncarp]

Thanks for the help, I will do daily water tests to check everything is okay.

 

[mattlee]

Thanks for the help, I will do daily water tests to check everything is okay.

no worries, hope it works out ok for you