Hi, I am new here

[PinupGeisha]

A belated Hi and welcome to the forum

If you have an established tank, you can take the filter media/ material, or some of it, and put it in the new filter so you don't have to cycle the tank. If you shut down 2 smaller tanks, there would be ample filter media in them to get the new bigger tank going straight away.

Thank you, yes i was planning on that but the fish i wanted to move across decided to spawn

 

[Colin_T]

If you left the baby fish in the smaller tank, you could leave half the filter media with them and move the rest into the bigger tank to give you an established filter on both tanks. The baby fish won't produce much waste and the established filter in the new tank would help speed up the cycling process and let you keep fish in the new tank straight away.

 

[PinupGeisha]

If you left the baby fish in the smaller tank, you could leave half the filter media with them and move the rest into the bigger tank to give you an established filter on both tanks. The baby fish won't produce much waste and the established filter in the new tank would help speed up the cycling process and let you keep fish in the new tank straight away.

They are my breeding pair of german blue rams, they raise their own fry at this stage thankfully so i wouldn't separate them as i have enough fry to deal i with (i breed numerous corys for my local fish store) , with so many tanks i am in no rush to move them at all. i finally got some patience after the 7th tank lol

 

[DoubleDutch]

Hmmm are you the double dutch from Tasa?

I am hahahaha

 

[PinupGeisha]

I am hahahaha

I thought so