Evening All ,
Hope youāve all had a nice Christmas.
Iāve been using this forum as a source of info for sometime but never really had the need to post until now. Iāve recently just brought a fluval shacker 252l tank, the tank consists of mainly non live plants, however there are 3 live. The tanks been filled for a day in which Iāve added 25ml of microbe lift nite-out 2 and microbe lift xtreme water conditioner. Iāve also upped the temperature of the tank up to 27c to help speed up the cycle.
Iām in no rush to add fish, however any way of being able to speed up the cycling process is a bonus. from reading on the forum thereās suggestions of adding flake food every 12 hours however this appears to be contradictory from reading replies? Iāve also read that adding media from a cycled tank will speed up the cycling process? In terms of media would this be the sponge for example or the biomedia?could this be placed into the tank? Or would it need to be placed into the pump? is there anything to be concerned about with using media from a cycled tank? Do water level needs to be checked to make sure the readings are correct beforehand or is that irrelevant? Is It worth getting some hardy fish to help?
Any suggestions would be appreciated
Thanks
Hope youāve all had a nice Christmas.
Iāve been using this forum as a source of info for sometime but never really had the need to post until now. Iāve recently just brought a fluval shacker 252l tank, the tank consists of mainly non live plants, however there are 3 live. The tanks been filled for a day in which Iāve added 25ml of microbe lift nite-out 2 and microbe lift xtreme water conditioner. Iāve also upped the temperature of the tank up to 27c to help speed up the cycle.
Iām in no rush to add fish, however any way of being able to speed up the cycling process is a bonus. from reading on the forum thereās suggestions of adding flake food every 12 hours however this appears to be contradictory from reading replies? Iāve also read that adding media from a cycled tank will speed up the cycling process? In terms of media would this be the sponge for example or the biomedia?could this be placed into the tank? Or would it need to be placed into the pump? is there anything to be concerned about with using media from a cycled tank? Do water level needs to be checked to make sure the readings are correct beforehand or is that irrelevant? Is It worth getting some hardy fish to help?
Any suggestions would be appreciated
Thanks