Quick Cycle

[Derpeder]

Hey I am cycling a 30 gallon tank and I want to cycle it as quick as possible.

I have another tank set up and I pulled some plants and rocks out of it and put it in the cycling tank....does that do anything. PLus I put about 10 goldfish in there. I have a cycled ten gallon as well. Should I put the ten gallon filter in the 30? WOuld that help.

Is there anything else I can do to speed up the cycle?

 

[MATTCB]

doesnt matter what you do, with 10 gold fish in a new 30 its going to crash. Pull out 8 of the gold fish and buy some Bio-Spira. Good luck.

 

[Derpeder]

doesnt matter what you do, with 10 gold fish in a new 30 its going to crash. Pull out 8 of the gold fish and buy some Bio-Spira. Good luck.

what do you mean crash? and I can buy some bio Spira...

 

[shookONES]

Pull the old filter media from the other tank and just let it sit inside the new tank. Should cycle in an hour or so. In my old 120g I cycled in an afternoon and had rays swimming happily the next day.

 

[CHOMPERS]

Wash your other filters and pour the gunk from them into the new filter. It is way better than any stuff you get in a bottle. The new filter won't catch everything on the first pass but don't worry, it will all get in there in a short amount of time.

The gunk from the other filters has the bacteria that the new filter needs. For what it is worth, you don't cycle a tank, you cycle the filter. Moving the filter on the ten gallon will help if nothing is in the 10g.

 

[CHOMPERS]

Pull the old filter media from the other tank and just let it sit inside the new tank. Should cycle in an hour or so. In my old 120g I cycled in an afternoon and had rays swimming happily the next day.

(you type faster ) I had a new filter that was consuming everything my fish could throw at it in two days by using this method.

 

[Derpeder]

Nice...thanks guys.....

I didn't know it was a Filter Cycle more then the tank. Cool. Well I will get that taken care of tonight.

Thanks again thats good info.

 

[CHOMPERS]

It is just weird terminology. You cycle the filter but we say that you cycle a tank. It is missleading and causes quite a bit of confusion. In a nutshell, it is all about the nitrogen cycle which happens in the filter. (A very minor part occurs in the tank and other equipment.)

 

[Derpeder]

It is just weird terminology. You cycle the filter but we say that you cycle a tank. It is missleading and causes quite a bit of confusion. In a nutshell, it is all about the nitrogen cycle which happens in the filter. (A very minor part occurs in the tank and other equipment.)

awesome....I know the info on the cycle of a tank but that is good to know it is mainly the filter that you are focusing on, that I did not know.

 

[CORVETTE]

Ive started most of my tanks this way, i just ring out my filters from other tanks and leave it over night. Its always seemed to work for me.