New Breeding Tank

[renno1629]

Hi all,
I set up a breeding tank one week ago for my breeding angelfish. I used 30% of the water from my well established community tank, i have also used an established filter. I added the angelfish yesterday. tank levels show ammonia 0.50 nitrite 0.3 nitrate 50 mg/l ph 7.4. my ammonia levls are too high - how do i go about getting my levels right?

 

[england]

If you already have another established tank, remove more mature filter media and add to breeding tank filter, get as much muck from the other as possible, hehe

have you thought it through regard breeding angels, there hard work,

 

[renno1629]

love your profile pic

yea i understand there hard work but i enjoy doing it.

Any ideas on how i can sort out my chemical imbalance? in my comm tank the filter is external and the breeding tank its internal so i cant remove any media from he comm tank because it wont fit. the angelfish are in the breeding tank at the moment, do you think i should remove them until my water is more mature?

 

[england]

What i would do, is open the external, take out the media, get a container, squeeze each sponge etc from external into tuub, get as much gunk as you can, then, take out the media from the intenal, soak them in the gunk, for a while, then add back to internal, slowly pouring gunk into innternal, if that makes sense,

 

[renno1629]

yup that makes sense, i didnt even think of that

what do you mean though, slowly pouring gunk into internal??

 

[england]

Yeah, after the enital soak from internal media, maybe 10mins just plonked in container with gunk

 

[renno1629]

so the gunk thats left over, after soaking the sponges for the internal filter, i should pour into the breeding tanks internal filter.

lol im gettin confused.

 

[england]

Oviously if its too much no, but basically, the gunk you squeeze from a mature filter has all the "good bacteria" your looking for, if you cant transfer for example i sponge into the newer filter this is only other way, its ment to speed up the bateria growth in newer filter,

 

[renno1629]

ok, ive done that, when i emptied the remaining gunk after soking my internal filter sponges a lot of it when in my tank. will it be alright?

 

[england]

Yes it will be fine, hehe, when i did that with my old 5/2/2 whole tank went filthy, but after a while it will clean,

 

[renno1629]

thank you