fishnutham;651379; said:
thats up for debate.............but excellent advice re. gravel and filter transfer.....
What will be less stressfull for my fish?
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thats up for debate.............but excellent advice re. gravel and filter transfer.....
JESSU;651355; said:I put them in the 55g. I am going to get bio spira first thing in the morn..would have done it today but car has a flatI added the gravel from the old tank. My snail was such a pain to come off. I had to tap him for 2 mins stright and slide him around. I was so afried I was going to hurt him. He seems to be liking the new tak. This is the first time I have seen his whole foot(or what ever its called. The fish are moving out more and more. I guess they dont know what to do with all the space.
Hers pics
Yay, i love gold fish, and with that tank they will grow big fast, and that black moor will get big and gorgeous like mine. no one believes me when i tell them that gold fish get big and should have about 20 gallons each. (but the people i usually need to tell that to are people in petco buying a half gallon bowl and 3 fish. )
i have that same castle in my tank. its where my snail hides when i vacuum the gravel.
gold fish =
gold fish are hardy they will do fine in that till its done cycling with the bio-spira, when i changed filters on my tank and it went into cycling again, it used that bio- spira and i was done in 5 days.
)i have that same castle in my tank. its where my snail hides when i vacuum the gravel.
gold fish =
gold fish are hardy they will do fine in that till its done cycling with the bio-spira, when i changed filters on my tank and it went into cycling again, it used that bio- spira and i was done in 5 days.
those three fish look tiny in that big ole 55 gallon. Get the bio spira it will help get your tank cycled sooner. Just make sure you don't add any more fish for a couple weeks until the tank is definitly cycled.
Get yourself a test kit, you want to be able to test for ammonia, nitrites and nitrates
Get yourself a test kit, you want to be able to test for ammonia, nitrites and nitrates
Just to reassure you, three fairly small fancies is a very small bioload for a 55g, Since you are adding the old (unwashed) gravel from a 5g UGF the new filter is now seeded with at least a minimal bacterial colony, if you add no more fish for a couple of weeks and do not clean the new filter in that time, and do not over feed, your new colony will easily catch up to the bioload before any ammonia spike can occur. Your tank will start cycling smoothly in an almost unnoticible fashion. No worries. The gradual introduction of fish into an oversize tank avoids the fish killing results of an uncycled tank.
As an aside, it is common usage now days for people to speak of having "cycled" their tank, this is a misnomer as it implies that the cycle is now over, it is not. The cycle refers to bacteria reducing urea and ammonnia to nitrites, then nitrates. This happens continuously in a healthy tank. More properly the term should be "started an ammonia reducing cycle", as long as your fish produce waste the cycle will continue. What the term cycling actually refers to is allowing your bacterial colony to rewach parity with the waste produced. Where people run into problems is when they allow impatience to over rule allowing for bacterial growth.
Under current usage of the term I do not cycle my tanks, even so, it has been decades since I lost a fish to "new tank syndrome" or ammonia poisoning.
Sorry about the rant, it is just a pet peeve of mine and has been ever since the "need for proper cycling" has bled over into FW fishkeeping from SW.
All that being said, for large fish in relatively small tanks, pre-cycling is required as the bioload starts out so high that the ammonia levels rise faster than the bacteria can catch up with, the same thing happens when you fully stock a large tank with new filters, with a little patience and only gradually approaching your target stocking level you can avoid the whole scenario.
As an aside, it is common usage now days for people to speak of having "cycled" their tank, this is a misnomer as it implies that the cycle is now over, it is not. The cycle refers to bacteria reducing urea and ammonnia to nitrites, then nitrates. This happens continuously in a healthy tank. More properly the term should be "started an ammonia reducing cycle", as long as your fish produce waste the cycle will continue. What the term cycling actually refers to is allowing your bacterial colony to rewach parity with the waste produced. Where people run into problems is when they allow impatience to over rule allowing for bacterial growth.
Under current usage of the term I do not cycle my tanks, even so, it has been decades since I lost a fish to "new tank syndrome" or ammonia poisoning.
Sorry about the rant, it is just a pet peeve of mine and has been ever since the "need for proper cycling" has bled over into FW fishkeeping from SW.
All that being said, for large fish in relatively small tanks, pre-cycling is required as the bioload starts out so high that the ammonia levels rise faster than the bacteria can catch up with, the same thing happens when you fully stock a large tank with new filters, with a little patience and only gradually approaching your target stocking level you can avoid the whole scenario.
