Where should I put seeded material ???

[tcarswell]

I finally got my hands on a sponge/floss with a Beneficial bacteria colony from a cycled (And clean) tank. The floss stuff came from an aquatech 5-15 and was made to culture beneficial bacteria. Anyways I have a few options to seed my new (23 days old) tank. I could put it inside the water flow of the 300 GPH HOB filter next to the filter bags. Or I could put it in the gravel ( I have an undergravel filter) Or I suppose I could put it next to the intake of my eheim canister filter.

Any ideas ?
Also I dont really plan on using the HOB for anything but mechanical filtration if I stick the sponge there will it spread to my other filters ? Or should I put it in the gravel because I have an UGF which obviously is a Beneficial bacteria bed

 

[pat3612]

I would put it in the Hob prob easier to take out later once your tank is cycled thats where I always add mine.

 

[tcarswell]

Nice! Its in there now I chose it because it had alot of air and water agitation going on behind the filter cartridges . I would like to focus my bio load on my eheim 2215 but I cant for the life of me bring myself to open it only a month after I started the product.

 

[micstarz]

I'm interested in knowing too because I just got some bio rings from the LFS (not very safe I know but I'm keeping a mantis so hopefully they don't have invert diseases in them.

 

[tcarswell]

Still curious if maybe I should put it in the gravel below my eheims intake. As I want a good colony in my eheim. The HOB is intended solely for mechanical (Its a topfin 60 300 GPH)

 

[wow_it_esploded]

BB spread out evenly across the entire surfaces of the aquarium.. Give it time and it will be everywhere!

 

[Merbeast]

I vote for the HOB, too. You want it getting good water flow. I am hoping you are either adding ammonia to the tank or there are fish in there?

 

[tcarswell]

Plenty of fishies in there its cycled now

 

[tylerperkins]

is this a salt tank?

 

[tcarswell]

No this is a freshwater tank. Why?