my diy prefab pond setup and filter

[midnight]

its been running since tuesday.
im going to bring the water in buckets with the pond.
how long should i tell him to wait to add fish? i never really know.lol

RIT?

 

[muckieman]

let it cycle first.

 

[midnight]

i said its been running lol

 

[milkman407]

Depends on how many fish, if its just that one oscar than throw it in.

 

[Dr Joe]

its been running since tuesday.
im going to bring the water in buckets with the pond.
how long should i tell him to wait to add fish? i never really know.lol

RIT?

Did you put in any bacteria or ammonia to start/feed the cycle? If not and your going to do a fish cycle put a couple of 1"-2" fish in for a week and check the chemistry, and go from there.

RIT is a fabric dye, pretty cool stuff, sold at publix, wally world.

Dr Joe
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[midnight]

Did you put in any bacteria or ammonia to start/feed the cycle? If not and your going to do a fish cycle put a couple of 1"-2" fish in for a week and check the chemistry, and go from there.

RIT is a fabric dye, pretty cool stuff, sold at publix, wally world.

Dr Joe
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havent added anything.will do that tho.thanks
and how did the dye work? you said ok or something?got a pic?

 

[Dr Joe]

Dye worked good, if there are hard spots (knots) in the wood it was light. No pix, in the days before digital .

Dr Joe

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[midnight]

you tell me,should i delay delivery a few more days to do it?lol
will it be nicer,nicer a word?lol
remember how much the dye was?cheap?im cheap.LOL
do as bottle says or add water and some dye?
sorry for all the questions.

 

[Dr Joe]

Do the cycle at your place or theirs, doesn't matter, you just have to be there every day to check it.

Fish or fishless cycle?

When using fish to cycle it, you have the chance of fish dying (if this could turn off the people you might want to do it at your place).

With fishless you have to be there to test and add ammonia every day at the same time.

OR

Wait for it...

Brainstorm... Use water from one of your ponds!!! and put some of the old filter material from it in the new filter too to kick start the new filter. (just make sure nothing is sick in yours (or new catches)).

Dye is cheap ($3-$5?) a package, but you don't use the whole package on something like this.

Company site and a bunch of tips

http://www.google.com/search?client...&channel=s&hl=en&q=rit+dye&btnG=Google+Search

I just posted the whole seach entry since there are so many of them .

There may be a tie dyed pond in your future .

Dr Joe

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[rottbo]

the frag is built into a round stand with a samll door kinda a B!@#H to get to but makes it so my daughter cannot get into a tank full of zooanthus