Cycling new tank fast? putting fish in soon.

[HuffDaddy]

What is the fastest way to cycle a new tank?

I am putting fish in this tank in less than two days..

I have another cycled tank.

Can i just clean the gravel of the cycled tank and throw the water into the new tank and let the filter run over night? Then just do water changes on it?

What have people done? what works?

 

[Laticauda]

Water is not what cycles a tank. If you take your gravel, filter, etc from your old tank (without washing it, it needs to be "dirty"), and put it in your new tank, with the same bioload that's in the old tank, then the tank will be cycled.

Why are you in such a hurry to put the fish into the new tank? Stability by Seachem is also a great product to use.

 

[Spiritofthesoul]

Take some gravel from the cycled tank and add to the new tank to allow seeding of BB. Add stability and ammonia daily and test. I don't know whats the rush but Im never put any fish in my tank until its 100% cycled.

 

[Laticauda]

Here's a great read with step by step instructions/explanations for you.
http://thegab.org/Water-Quality/our-experience-of-fishless-cycling-with-household-ammonia.html

 

[HuffDaddy]

Well I'm going to an auction so I will prob buy alot of fish. And i do not have enough room in my other tank.

 

[dayak]

If u can't wait get a product that I know works, its API product called stesscoat and also stresszyme, u mix both, I recenlty use seachem stability due to a lot cheaper then the API product.I think API product is better tho
They do works but u need to do WC(no more than 50%) more often during the "cycle" once its cyled u can reduce the frequentcy of WC

 

[ecoli73]

I would put some old filter material into the new filter...