Ready To Upgarde My Aquarium

[steveh282]

Hi I have had my tropical aquarium set up and running pretty smooth now for nearly 6 months and feel the time is right to upgrade to a bigger aquarium. At the moment I only have a 7 .5 gallon tank(uk) with a fluval 1 filter and a 50w heater. I am looking at buying a second hand 22 gallong tank with a new filter,heater and light set up. How do I go about this? Can i just transfer the water and contents of the 7.5 gallon aquarium to the new one and then top up with treated new water? what about the filter is there ant special requirements i need to take with this?
The fish I have ath the moment are :
neon tetras
harlequin rasboras
2 corydoras
5 danios

All healthy.

 

[SmileyMan]

Hi I have had my tropical aquarium set up and running pretty smooth now for nearly 6 months and feel the time is right to upgrade to a bigger aquarium. At the moment I only have a 7 .5 gallon tank(uk) with a fluval 1 filter and a 50w heater. I am looking at buying a second hand 22 gallong tank with a new filter,heater and light set up. How do I go about this? Can i just transfer the water and contents of the 7.5 gallon aquarium to the new one and then top up with treated new water? what about the filter is there ant special requirements i need to take with this?
The fish I have ath the moment are :
neon tetras
harlequin rasboras
2 corydoras
5 danios

All healthy.

Transfer you water and top up, Also run your current filter in tank along side your new filter to seed it and dont add anymore fish until this has happened and the new filter has cycled, (The old filter with deal with the fish load for the time being)

 

[chibi]

I would pour in 4-5 gallons of your first tank into the newer one, then add new water into it. Cycle it for a day, then add your fish from the other tank. Make sure you don't take away so much water from the smaller one that the fish aren't fully submerged. The fish you have are pretty hardy, so they shouldn't be hurt that the water isn't fully cycled. Then wait for a week or two before adding any new fish.

 

[demonmagus]

trust me, all the water contains is... nothing.

do the running filters alongside each other thing, and also, maybe put some of the media (stuff) from inside the old filter into the new one, don't go overboard with stocking, your filter is still quite 'weak'

and Hi

 

[SmileyMan]

trust me, all the water contains is... nothing.

Mature water is a GOOD thing I have found over the years.

I would pour in 4-5 gallons of your first tank into the newer one, then add new water into it. Cycle it for a day

Cycle for a day on a new filter???

That would = dead fish, It would take a lot longer than that for the small amount nitrosomona and nitrobacter present in the water to colonize the new filter, A lot longer

maybe put some of the media (stuff) from inside the old filter into the new one

Yep good idea if you can has would speed up cycle of new filter.