New canister

[lightsout]

So curious to know how everyone else does it. I have a spare 180g thats running two generic canisters with mature biomax media rings in them. Im planning on adding a new fx6 to the mix as well.

So my question is do you all remove the media from the old mature canister onto the new one, or just wait for the new canister to mature on its own?

 

[M@T!@$]

So curious to know how everyone else does it. I have a spare 180g thats running two generic canisters with mature biomax media rings in them. Im planning on adding a new fx6 to the mix as well.

So my question is do you all remove the media from the old mature canister onto the new one, or just wait for the new canister to mature on its own?

You should just run all three on the tank..better to over filter, than to under filter

 

[lightsout]

Thats the plan. I guess my question is pretty confusing lol

I just wanted to know if its better to take out all the beneficial bacteria from the old canister and add it to the new fx6 and put the new media in the older canister and have them all running at the same time.

 

[knobhill]

I would Take a couple sponges and one tier of bio media from one of the seeded canisters and put in your new filter. Replace what you took out of seeded filter with new stuff. The established Bb will spread to your new canister pretty quickly.

 

[ehh]

If you're gonna leave all three of them then just put the new media in the new filter. There really is no reason to do it the other way you're suggesting unless you plan on cleaning the old filter.
In an established tank, I'm sure the time it'll take to fully cycle the old filter with new media is about the same time to cycle a new filter with new media.

 

[knobhill]

I just realized that you aren't running all fx6's. Might as well just start fresh like the post above unless you have to clean out the generic canisters.

 

[lightsout]

Thanks for the input guys makes sense