Step by step Noob 120g set up
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My only problem with that is I'm switching from a hob to a canister filter, so how do use my old cycled media? All I could think of was throwing a used filter pad in the water. Asking my lfs for used media or gravel is pretty genius and I'm sure they'd give me some. Would kinda suck to have to get the gravel back out.
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Your using penguin right? You can take the cartridges to be used to seed the new tank. The old tank will be fine since it still had the wheels. I cut the blue pad off the cartridges and placed them inside the canister. You can pick up some sort of bacteria in a bottle like Stability to help speed up the cycle. I don't like asking pet store for seeded media or gravel, unless I know they keep there **** clean. Don't want any disease introduced to my tank.
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Good point hot slime on both accounts. Would be cutting filter pads up right now, but I got some unexpected water test results...
It is day 5: I forgot to mention that from day 2, I have been dosing the tank with a bacteria and enzyme product from mardel called Biozyme.
On day three, I tested the water for ammonia with a liquid master test kit from api and got a reading of .5, exactly what I was hoping for. Enough to move the cycle, not enough to hurt the fish, especially with a ph in the 6s.
Today, on day 5, I tested for ammonia using a nutrafin liquid test.
After adding the additive to my test water and shaking it a bit, the water show as clear and colorless as possible which means the ammonia is too low to be detected. I got a little exited at that point because I've read on here that 0 ammonia plus 0 nitrite and some positive reading of nitrate means the cycle is complete, and the tank is established. So next I tested for nitrite and nitrate, but I was excited and wanted results instantly so I pulled out my mardel 5 in one water test strips (feel free to bash, they've worked pretty well for me so far).
It appears that nitrite is 0 and nitrate is coming in somewhere around 5-10 ppm! Now I'm going to perform liquid tests to confirm, but is it possible that the steps I've taken in the past four days have the tank in a stable, sustainable, cycled condition? I don't believe it quite yet, but perhaps I'll start rehoming some of the goldfish and replace their bioload with my own fish. I'm going to be honest, I have a strong temptation to take the goldfish back to the store and give them back in exchange for getting to watch them be feed to the gars they have. Is that awful? I mean by rehoming them they are probably going to a child and they will be dead in a week...I don't know. For now, they are some really happy goldfish.
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It is day 5: I forgot to mention that from day 2, I have been dosing the tank with a bacteria and enzyme product from mardel called Biozyme.
On day three, I tested the water for ammonia with a liquid master test kit from api and got a reading of .5, exactly what I was hoping for. Enough to move the cycle, not enough to hurt the fish, especially with a ph in the 6s.
Today, on day 5, I tested for ammonia using a nutrafin liquid test.
After adding the additive to my test water and shaking it a bit, the water show as clear and colorless as possible which means the ammonia is too low to be detected. I got a little exited at that point because I've read on here that 0 ammonia plus 0 nitrite and some positive reading of nitrate means the cycle is complete, and the tank is established. So next I tested for nitrite and nitrate, but I was excited and wanted results instantly so I pulled out my mardel 5 in one water test strips (feel free to bash, they've worked pretty well for me so far).
It appears that nitrite is 0 and nitrate is coming in somewhere around 5-10 ppm! Now I'm going to perform liquid tests to confirm, but is it possible that the steps I've taken in the past four days have the tank in a stable, sustainable, cycled condition? I don't believe it quite yet, but perhaps I'll start rehoming some of the goldfish and replace their bioload with my own fish. I'm going to be honest, I have a strong temptation to take the goldfish back to the store and give them back in exchange for getting to watch them be feed to the gars they have. Is that awful? I mean by rehoming them they are probably going to a child and they will be dead in a week...I don't know. For now, they are some really happy goldfish.
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Dunno how accurate those test strips are. Take the sample to your petstore to get a second testing. Your tank could be cycled, you did use seeded media and bacteria.
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Well I do have an api master test kit, I was just wanting instant results 
I'll test tonight to confirm. I threw in a second penguin pad today from a 10 gallon I've had. It hadn't been changed for 5 months...prefect for the new tank!
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I'll test tonight to confirm. I threw in a second penguin pad today from a 10 gallon I've had. It hadn't been changed for 5 months...prefect for the new tank! Sent from my SPH-D710 using MonsterAquariaNetwork App
