Help With Moving Gravel ?

[boabmac63]

I want to add some stones from a cycled tank and could i use a pair of tights to put it in but the tights have been in washing ??

 

[JanJan]

I would get a new pair for a couple of £$€ and wash then out in clean water. Washing powder and conditioner nowadays seems to be really potent to achieve that lovely clean linen fresh smell.

 

[ZoddyZod]

are you trying to seed a new tank via some gravel that comes from a previously cycled tank? If so, that gravel will contain virtually no beneficial bacteria.....unless the cycled tank uses an under-gravel filter?

 

[boabmac63]

are you trying to seed a new tank via some gravel that comes from a previously cycled tank? If so, that gravel will contain virtually no beneficial bacteria.....unless the cycled tank uses an under-gravel filter?

It does contain bacteria it has already spiked it a bit so far

 

[Keeper Of Cichlids]

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are you trying to seed a new tank via some gravel that comes from a previously cycled tank? If so, that gravel will contain virtually no beneficial bacteria.....unless the cycled tank uses an under-gravel filter?
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I thought beneficial bacteria would virtually be on anything in the tank, especially the gravel, I may be wrong though.
Isn't that why they to that when you take a handful of gravel from a cycled tank and put it in a new tank, it will help it?3

 

[Aqua Tom]

The Benifical bacteria we are trying to propogate will be on all the surfaces inside the aquarium but in miniscule amounts. The main colony will be inside the filter on the filter media itself, this is because the media has a far higher surface area than anything else in your tank, it has been designed this way.
So your handful of gravel may help your cycle in a small way, but a good amount of mature media from a established filter WILL help a lot.


Tom