LuBear

[mlee0332]

Please answer my question really fast b/f I go to bed Here is the forum...

Actually here is the box I want you to answer...

 

[LuBear]

I dont understand why you're asking me alone. As you know I'm not the greatest with fish... I would... probably boil the gravel seperately... I would also get rid of the water already used in cleaning other stuff... and use pure, unboiled tap water and decholorinate it. As I said, you shouldn't completely trust me... can someone else help?

 

[mlee0332]

well, yes but you are the only person on line that was helping me earlier, and everyone else keeps going over my post. My question is, now I have completely destroyed the bene bacteria in my ten, would it be safer to put my 8 fish in an uncycled 29g? I don't want ammonia to build up over night and kill them...

I consider this sort of an emergency b/c they have been in the ten for a few hours now and its 1 am here and I don't want to go to bed before I know they will be fine.

 

[LuBear]

hmmm... well, you should let the water cycle for about a day or two before risking them and putting them in. This is a pretty tough thing seeing as you don't have many running tanks. I usually keep a spare tank running just incase I have an ill fish or a preggy. When the tank isn't being used, I though my betta in there to let it excersize and build it's fins.

and also, 10g might be too small for 8 fishes. The standard guideline is 1" fish per gallon.

 

[LuBear]

o... and keep the water in your bucket cycling... with some sort of areation or you'll have to... do some very frequent water changes to keep the water moving and fresh and make sure that the bucket is roughly 10-15 gallons. I know that sounds crazy... but it'll have to do.

 

[mlee0332]

well, I have an extra tank, but nitrites are off the scale high, and the reaon I haven't cycled the 29 is for the reason of having preggers and I deparately need a tank to put the fry in... Is the bene bacteria completely gone or is there enough that I could put the filter on the new tank to have an "instantly" cycled tank? Also, I am using a speed cycler, called Biozyme, have you heard of it? It says use 1/8 teaspoon per every 25gs for 7 days in a row. I see that the aerobic grid in the 29 has grown a little bacteria, well HAD a little bacteria. The tank has run for 5-6 days, but then I had to tear it down b/c of an outbreak of gill flukes.

 

[LuBear]

if you have to... then put them in the 29... make sure you have the tank cycle for at least 1 hour to make sure that the dechoriator has dissolved and yes I have heard of biozyme but I've never tried it. The point is... that it doesn't instant cycle... it just instant dechorinates. You have to make sure that the water is running and has enough air dissolved in it. Tap water should have enough air. But as I said... I'm not quite sure. I'm just using my logic and the research I've done.

 

[mlee0332]

I'm sorry i'm being so irritating ) , but thank you anyway. I just want to be sure I'm not going to find 8 dead fish in the morning.

Thanks, and good night