How Long Des My New Filter Media Have To Be In My External Canister?

[Gazpug]

Hello all.

I have a 300 ltr tank at home and i have a small 47 ltr in the dining room. I have put the new filter media from my fluval 2+ into the canister filter. How long will it take the bacteria to colonise the filter so i can put it back into the fluval.

I have 4 mollies in the tank so dont want to wait to long cos i dont want to pisen the mollies. It has been in there for 2 days now. Is that long enough?

Regards

Gaz

 

[shang hi]

erm...... what is your question?... seriously?.... ive spent 10 mins attempting to de-code this... ill call your mum !

EDIT: got your answer!

okay i spent some time (15 mins) getting my head around your post of jumbled words and have an answer for you. well i think i do if it was the right question

From what i can gather from that and using your sig due to lack of information (hense why nobody has spent the time to answer) you have taken media from your 300l tank filter and added it to the new tank. just buy some new media and add it to the 300l tank filter and you have an instantly cycled 47l tank and with a few 10% water changes for a few days you should have no ammonia spike in the 300l tank.

 

[raptorrex]

erm...... what is your question?... seriously?.... ive spent 10 mins attempting to de-code this... ill call your mum !

EDIT: got your answer!

okay i spent some time (15 mins) getting my head around your post of jumbled words and have an answer for you. well i think i do if it was the right question

From what i can gather from that and using your sig due to lack of information (hense why nobody has spent the time to answer) you have taken media from your 300l tank filter and added it to the new tank. just buy some new media and add it to the 300l tank filter and you have an instantly cycled 47l tank and with a few 10% water changes for a few days you should have no ammonia spike in the 300l tank.

lol thats not how i read it!

i take it you want to move the media from the 40L and add it to the 300L? if so it will take some time, as the filter is cycled for the waste of 4 mollys. my guess would be two weeks min. then you could return it to the 40L. how will your mollys do with no filtration?

 

[Gazpug]

erm...... what is your question?... seriously?.... ive spent 10 mins attempting to de-code this... ill call your mum !

EDIT: got your answer!

okay i spent some time (15 mins) getting my head around your post of jumbled words and have an answer for you. well i think i do if it was the right question

From what i can gather from that and using your sig due to lack of information (hense why nobody has spent the time to answer) you have taken media from your 300l tank filter and added it to the new tank. just buy some new media and add it to the 300l tank filter and you have an instantly cycled 47l tank and with a few 10% water changes for a few days you should have no ammonia spike in the 300l tank.

lol thats not how i read it!

i take it you want to move the media from the 40L and add it to the 300L? if so it will take some time, as the filter is cycled for the waste of 4 mollys. my guess would be two weeks min. then you could return it to the 40L. how will your mollys do with no filtration?

Sorry i have not been very clear. I want to cheat the cycle process for my 47 ltr tank. So i have put half the media from the fluval 2+ into my fluval 305 canister filter in order to seed the small filter pad with bacteria. I want to then put the media into my quickly cycled 47ltr tank.

I have also put in some water from my 300 ltr as well as some substrate in a bit of stocking to speed things up.

I was just wondering how long i should leave the filter pad in my canister to seed it?

Hope this is clearer sorry : )

Gaz

 

[jarcher1390]

at least 1 week to get sufficient to support the mollies