Quick cycle

[twentyleagues]

Figured that'd be the case. Here is where a large canister fliter would come in really handy. With all that cycled material in there you'd be able to transfer your fish all the media and get all your new filtration on line without skipping a beat. Then just add new fish slowly to acclimate your system to the increased bioload. Might look into getting a used fx6 or other large canister or just do a diy on top of the tank with all your filter material in it. Take it down when everything is running smoothly.

 

[nzafi]

Thinking of it more, I will probably continue to feed him so keep up the bioload. I need to think through the other media. I definitely will soak all the new media in the tank and let it build up some bio, and then bring everything over. Instead of grabbing 3 large sponge filters, I might just do one. Just in case.

 

[Rocksor]

Having moved all the filters to a new tank with 100% new water several times, the only issue you might run into is the lack of heterotrophic bacteria in the new tank. This would produce a slight white haze to the tank water as the heterotrophic colony catches up to consume any organic compounds. You won't see a mini-cycle or spike in either ammonia or nitrite when this happens.

 

[jaws7777]

I'm confused N nzafi your moving all of the old media right ? If so just.kove him and feed lightly. BB colony will be a tad smaller on the new tank (minus the bb of old decor/sand ect ect)

 

[nzafi]

J jaws7777 about a year back I decided to change filters which is somewhat similar to what I am doing now. I set up the HMF filters, and put all the old media in the tank without the AC110s. At the time I was doing 50% weekly water changes. The HMF ended up crashing due to the water change sizes, and not being able to estabilsh properly. Also, biomax is meant for high turnover, so while it helps establish the HMF filter it is not being used effectively.

This time around I will have the ultima in addition to the HMF, and will be doing smaller water changes daily, but want to make sure I dont have the same crash I had last time.

 

[Galantspeedz]

For 1 fish, if you are doing daily WC, do you even need bb in the first place?

 

[jaws7777]

J jaws7777 about a year back I decided to change filters which is somewhat similar to what I am doing now. I set up the HMF filters, and put all the old media in the tank without the AC110s. At the time I was doing 50% weekly water changes. The HMF ended up crashing due to the water change sizes, and not being able to estabilsh properly. Also, biomax is meant for high turnover, so while it helps establish the HMF filter it is not being used effectively.

This time around I will have the ultima in addition to the HMF, and will be doing smaller water changes daily, but want to make sure I dont have the same crash I had last time.

Ahhh I gotcha well I kind of went through the same thing when I moved my fish over to the larger tank. What saved me was tetra safestart plus. Every single time I used this product it worked like a charm. May end up costing a little $$$ but you will avoid the crash and not have to do all those wc's

 

[skjl47]

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just.kove him and feed lightly. BB colony will be a tad smaller on the new tank (minus the bb of old decor/sand ect ect)

hello; This sounds right to me. Add that the volume of water will be greater in the new tank so should take a while for ammonia levels to become a problem.

once the 550g is up and running the hmf poret and sponge filters will automatically go into the tank to help quick cycle the ultima
- after 3-5 days I want to put the fish into 550g tank.

hello; I went back and re-read this portion and have an observation and a question.
First the observation. It seems the plan, at that point in this thread, was to add bb loaded materials from the old tank about three days before adding the lone fish. So the new tank will have such bb loaded material in it for three days and no fish or other significant source of ammonia, is this correct?
While I cannot say that the bb will be reduced a lot by three days of fasting, it does seem to me that there should be some reduction in the bb population as they will not have any of their needed nutrition (ammonia).
I also do not see how some bb loaded (hmf poret & sponge filters) will "automatically" help to quick cycle the ultima. Perhaps there is a mechanism for this but I do not follow it.

It has been my take over a few years that the way to "cycle" a new tank with material from the old established tank is to add the bb loaded stuff from the old tank at about the same time as the fish are added to the new setup. That way there is both bb and a source of ammonia present. My guess is it will be helpful to have the old bb loaded stuff in a bit of water flow to be best effective.

 

[Dloks]

Its one fish, you can just drop the media in the tank and a powerhead and it'll be fine lol.. not to mention its a wolf fish. AC110 holds a handful of media not something to stress over just grab the media and throw it next to your HMF and let the bac do its job.
If you just have the block in the center of your current tank, that block has 200x more bacteria than your AC110. Do the same and drop the MarinePure block in the middle of your tank. I don't understand the confusion and the stress.