Just set up the 5 gallon fry tank. I used about 2.5 gallons of water from the normal running tank. The rest is dechlorinated water. Heater is running. Filter is running. How long until I can transfer the fry over ?
UPDATE: Fry tank setup
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What kind of fry?
Balloon molly fry. We got her yesterday as a replacement for a fish that passed away. She started labor in the bag. We got 8 total.
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You need to cycle the tank, water from a cycled tank will not do it, The bacteria is in the filter, gravel and on items in the tank. You could add Tetra SafeStart Plus which has the bacteria.
Take some filter media from the main tank and drop it in the new filter on the fry tank. Insta cycle.
You should be just fine to move the fry over to it
You should be just fine to move the fry over to it
Yeah that should work
As long as the temp is the same you can add them now
It should be okay, you can test the parameters if you want. With fry you will be doing frequent water changes and that will prevent any spikes that may happen.
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I would test before adding the fry. just to be safe
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