New Tank

[CrItIcaL]

i have started a second tank for water top up, changes, medical, breeding and spawning tank. it has been running for some time now ( about a month with all the filter, heater and stuff in it).

basically what i want to know is that if i had to drop a fish in it due to an emergency of some sort. the temperature is the same in both my 10 gal and 3 gal 24*C. will a fish survive because there seems to be no sign of bacteria, algae or other lifeforms of any kind in the tank. except the plant i added. iv topped up my 10 gal a lot of times with the water from the new tank and the fish were fine.

can i drop my pregnant sword and guppy in there?

YEA SURE! or NO WAY!

any comment is welcome

 

[waterdrop]

You need to read our pinned articles on the Nitrogen Cycle, Fishless cycling and Fish-In cycling and starting a tank and discuss these topics with the members here in your thread. The members will get you going on this stuff and its basic to what you're asking about.

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[weejen]

as water drop says they tank would need to be cycled so that you dont stress and kill the fish with ammonia posioning.. if u dont need that tank straight away why not put the filter from your hospital tank in your main tank and clone the filter

 

[Ficious]

as long as both tanks are cycled....i dont see why you couldnt. BUT you cannot just drop them in...maybe you could but why not acclimate the injured fish first? i float a thin plastic container in my hospital tank, fill it partially with water and it just floats around with the fish in it. slowly add some water from the other tank in and then release it assuming temps are the same

 

[waterdrop]

It should be mentioned that the usual way of handling small Q-tanks is to either maintain a sponge in the filter of your main tank that can be pulled out and used in/as the filter of the small tank or to have a small internal/hob in/on the main tank that can be moved over. The issue is providing food to the two species of bacteria you are maintaining in any biological filter. They need a constant supply of ammonia and freshly oxygenated water.

In our beginners forum we usually try to discourage the habit of topping-up a tank in most cases. The better habit is to perform weekly water -changes- which involve a gravel clean with a gravel-cleaning siphon. Its not that there is anything wrong with topping-up per se but it must not come at the expense of the good weekly water change habit. The weekly water change removes excess debris from the substrate before it has a change to add to the N load, eventually raising the nitrate(NO3) level. It removes excess salts and trace elements and usually brings in water of a higher hardness level to replenish the buffering in the tank.

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[CrItIcaL]

wow thanx for all the advice... i would never have thought of cloning a filter and i never even thought of the amonia stuff

o and by the way i no longer have a pregnant sword tail, found 2 little sword fry swimming in tank this morning so i imediatly placed the 2 in a breeding trap.

so now im gona do some research on rearing fry lol