how long before a new filter is seeded ?

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rob1984

Jack Dempsey
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so i have had my tank up and going with one fx5 for awhile and grabbed a second one and finally got all the media to fill it today and what not.... how long before it fully seeded ?

top basket seachem matrix/filter pad, middle basket biomax/filter pad, and bottom basket biomax/filter pad
 
i think the basis behind seeding is taking existing media with bacteria on it and putting that in a new filter. I think thats what you meant but i didn't see you post anything about that. If you take half your biomedia from your old filter and mix it in to the new filter it will rapidly "seed" the new filter. so instead of having one old filter and one new one why dont you mix everything to speed it up.
 
I agree, if you have two filters on one tank, and one is new, take some bio media from the first and put it in the second one. You dont even need that much, it will seed just fine. Few weeks at most i would think


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Well I'm not all that worried about time really, like will it seed on its own cuz right now it just filled with all new media in the one filter
 
Yes my tank is fully cycled and and I added a 2nd fx5 with all new media in ONLY the 2nd NEW filter I didn't touch my old filter
 
Yes sir, IME in a month you could take your old fx5 off and be fine with the new one! As long as your bio load isn't enormous!


And Congrats on dual fx5! This is my future plans for my 125 red belly Piranha tank!

I took the dual outputs off to help gph and agitation and it helped!

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Bio load aint too bad yea... My old fx5 has 62" sprays bar and new one has dual output near the surface pointing up and let me tell you about surface agitation lol :D
 
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