nckate
New Member
First off, the good news: my fiance is probably coming home several weeks early from Iraq! And my tank is finally cycled (ammonia and nitrite have been zero for three days, nitrite is at 10.) But now I have to move that tank from Greenvile to Fayetteville. How do I do this without killing all my bacteria? It's a three-hour drive, plus the time it takes to pull down the tank and set it back up, so we're looking at at least five to six hours. Can I throw the fish and the biowheel in a big cooler with some of the tank water? Do I need to put the fish in bags to control the sloshing?
25 gallon tank, Eclipse 2 filtration, gravel substrate with one piece of wood and a lot of fake plants, three half-grown opaline gouramis and one half-grown bristlenose plec.
I'm not sure what his water is like there. Mine is very soft and the tank pH is at 7.8, so I'll test his when I go to his house (... <i>our house!</i>) this week to straighten up and move the first load.
Since the tank is finally cycled and has some room to spare, I'm thinking about adding a shoal of cardinals or other tetras (after a month or two, anyway.) I also want to do live plants, which will mean upgrading the lighting and possibly adding CO2. Can I do the lighting upgrade without changing the hardware?
One last thing: according to the 1" per gallon rule, I'm pretty much at full stocking once the gouramis are grown. How long does that usually take? I figure I could add half a dozen cardinals without equalling the biomass of one gourami. (Plus, I'm not sure I buy that rule anyway. Especialy since the eclipse has a flow rate of 200 gph, which is overfiltered.)
Our next tank will be a 55 to put on the dresser (it's a big, heavy oak one and definitely sturdy enough to hold the tank) with an Emperor 400. And I'm fishless cycling that one! Daily water changes suck.
25 gallon tank, Eclipse 2 filtration, gravel substrate with one piece of wood and a lot of fake plants, three half-grown opaline gouramis and one half-grown bristlenose plec.
I'm not sure what his water is like there. Mine is very soft and the tank pH is at 7.8, so I'll test his when I go to his house (... <i>our house!</i>) this week to straighten up and move the first load.
Since the tank is finally cycled and has some room to spare, I'm thinking about adding a shoal of cardinals or other tetras (after a month or two, anyway.) I also want to do live plants, which will mean upgrading the lighting and possibly adding CO2. Can I do the lighting upgrade without changing the hardware?
One last thing: according to the 1" per gallon rule, I'm pretty much at full stocking once the gouramis are grown. How long does that usually take? I figure I could add half a dozen cardinals without equalling the biomass of one gourami. (Plus, I'm not sure I buy that rule anyway. Especialy since the eclipse has a flow rate of 200 gph, which is overfiltered.)
Our next tank will be a 55 to put on the dresser (it's a big, heavy oak one and definitely sturdy enough to hold the tank) with an Emperor 400. And I'm fishless cycling that one! Daily water changes suck.
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