Is this QT tank size sufficient

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Every qt tank I've ever setup was setup using media from a established tank. The day before or the day of. Fill up your hob with as much as it will fit and drop a bag of media on the bottom of the tank. I never needed to dose pure ammonia and never had a ammonia spike. If you feel the need to use ammonia use it very sparingly as it could sterilize your aquarium and kill your bb. I would instead only use fish food to feed the cycle until you add your fish.
 
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TheWolfman said:
Every qt tank I've ever setup was setup using media from a established tank. The day before or the day of. Fill up your hob with as much as it will fit and drop a bag of media on the bottom of the tank. I never needed to dose pure ammonia and never had a ammonia spike. If you feel the need to use ammonia use it very sparingly as it could sterilize your aquarium and kill your bb. I would instead only use fish food to feed the cycle until you add your fish.
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Ok cool. My first true QT tank all these year of keeping fish. I dosed ammonia cause I wasn’t sure if my media from the establish tank will be sufficient enough to handle the load I will add. Good to know that adding ammonia could kill my BN. I will use fish food in the future. Just curious, how long will bb survive without fish load?

my understanding is bb increase to the load of the fish and die down when fish load decrease. I read it takes couple of days to double on an established colony, Just not sure how long it takes to start die off.

thanks
 
Wow fish look awesome. Where did you get them from? 8 weeks seems excessive to me. I think most quarantine for 3- 4 weeks. I usually feel safe after 3 weeks.
 
Shark75 said:
Wow fish look awesome. Where did you get them from? 8 weeks seems excessive to me. I think most quarantine for 3- 4 weeks. I usually feel safe after 3 weeks.
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Thanks, I order from a LFS from Florida. A little pricy and the shipping was extremely high comparing to Cichlid Express or Imperial Tropical. However he has what I wanted so I went for it.
 
I'm all for paying extra to get what you want . Think you made out ok haha
 
Shark75 said:
I'm all for paying extra to get what you want . Think you made out ok haha
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Agree! I am stocked for my 125 and my future 300. Just trying to figure if I should order some syno or CL, I know CL are not the right type for African tank but I really like them and I see a lot of tanks have them.
 
Yeah I love Clowns myself . I have 4 in with my Africans. They've been in there with no problems for 10 years. My water is probably on the lower side for hardness and pH than most people who keep Africans. PH tends to be 7.8 with KH at 7 and GH at 10. Don't think the clowns would like it too much harder or alkaline than that.
 
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