Question About Heater

[fishybuisness]

I recently decided to get a 30L tank and get a betta for it,
i had my tank set up and ready to go with the heater on for about two days and i was going to add a filter i have from another tank because i got a new filter for the other tank and the two filters had been running in the old tank together for two weeks. the filter i was transferring had been in the tank for a few months and it was fully cycled.

So my plan was to get the betta and then transfer the filter as soon as i got the betta.
when i went to the lfs to get the fish they wouldn't sell me the fish because they said the heater should be running in the tank at least two weeeks before you add any fish to it???

I'm relatively new (about 6 months) to tropical fish but i know all about the nitrogen cycle and checking my water but this really doesn't sound right to me so if anyone could let me know is this right or were they just blatantly wrong??

They also said if a heater breaks down you should remove your fish from your tank and leave the new heater running in the tank for two weeks on its own but i think if you did this your bacteria in the filter would end up dying off with no ammonia to live on.

Anybody any views on this?

 

[thefubar]

Sounds like the LFS was mixing up heater and filter.

If the water is the right temp, then its the right temp IMO.

My question to them would have been ... why?

 

[kelly528]

That is one of the weirder pieces of LFS advice I have heard in a while! The heater will be fine.

And for future reference, you're better off asking a random person on a street for advice than a LFS employee! Literally... there are good ones out there, but they're probably about as likely to pop up as a random pedestrian with 20 years of experience lol!

 

[fishybuisness]

yeah thats what i thought, i actually got a betta somewhere else the same day and added the filter and its been a week now and its still fine,
sick of lfs giving rubbish advice like this to people though

 

[Schmill]

Must admit, although my LFS do know somethings, I get fed up of them restricting sales based on incorrect information, so now whenever I get asked any fish that I buy are going into a tank at home that has been setup for well over a year