I moved my tank last night. Now my RBP is living in a Rubbermaid with an Emperor400 running on it. I cleaned a little bit during the move, but still left some "good dirt." Now my tank is up and running and the Nitrates are at about 25ppm. The Rubbermaid (all old tank water) nitrate level is at about 60ppm. I have set up a drip from the tank to the Ruermaid using air tubing. As the Rubbermaid fills up I scoop out water and put it back in the tank. I am hoping to equalize the two by this evening, effectively putting the RBP through a 40-50ppm Nitrate adjustment over a 24hr period. The pH and other measurables are essentially the same, so will the shift in Nitrate levels alone cause serious harm? Should I stretch the acclimation period out a little longer? Can Ps handle this kid of stress better than most fish?
Am I going to over-stress my RBP?
- Thread starter lujor
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Started thinking about the math behind this issue. If I add the 15gal of 60ppm water the RBP is in now to 60gal of tank water at 25ppm I should end up with water averaging about 32ppm Nitrates. So the shift the RBP would have to endure would really be from 60ppm to 32ppm. Not great, but not as bad as I originally was worried about. Is this still a problem tho?
I think as long as the filter thats cycled goes back on the tank you should be ok. Rbp are tough as nails.personally I would of drained half your tank water into buckets, totes or whatever, moved the tank where needed dumped the water that you saved along with fresh water n put your rbp right back in woulda been like a weekly water change.
I'm kind of lost on leaving some "good dirt" I think this is your reason for a increase in nitrates as you saved crap.your benifical bacteria lives in your filter,with lil on your decore n sub but not near as much though.the tote is probably stressing him out anyhow, I'd dump him in tank n let him start to get settled back in.
BRUNER247;4357882; said:
I meant that i saved some of his old water which was dirty. Not because I mistakenly thought that was where the bact was but because by saving some dirty water I minimized the swing in nitrate levels that the fish would go thru. "Good" because it helped soften the blow of transferring him from dirty to clean water. Also, I didn't have a sudden increase in nitrates; they were too high to begin with. Hence my worries over transferring him from dirty to clean water.