re maintaining cycle

[bear1]

First of all thank's to NETMAX. I will be maintaining my tank with 2
drops of ammonia till I come back at which time I will probebly be
disinfecting as has been suggested by most replies Appologies to FUZZY
and all who replied if I seemed to ignore the exelent advice I've been
getting on this forum but there are other factors behind my queery about
ammonia maintainance. I plan on keeping my hosp./isol. tank cycled with
ammonia instead of fish in the future if advisible there are also other
underlying reasons behind my posting to long and complicated to post . I
don't want to put all of you asleep trying to explain So in closing,
Thanks a bunch to you all and I will get back to you's if AOL dont cut
us off Regards ART



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[Fuzzy]

:D FTR (for the record) I would keep trying to answer your questions, as
I am sure everyone else would, even if you choose to ignore our advice.
One hint that I didn't notice in any of the previous thread. One easy
way to keep a quick set up for a small H, or Q tank, is to run a double
set of filters. Keeping a third handy. In the even of a problem, simply
fill the H tank with water, remove one filter from the main tank, place
the third filter on the main tank. You now have a bacterial colony,
fully developed in the H tank. The new filter on the main tank, will not
have a colony, however in most situations, the other filter, plus the
rest of the non swimming bacteral colonies, will be able to keep the
tank from having a major spike, until the new filter begins to grow its
own bacterial colony. Then of course, once the H tank is broken down and
cleaned and steralize, along with the old filter. We are now ready,
again if they are needed. This assumes of course you use HOB's.



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[Elaine T]

Fuzzy wrote:
> :D FTR (for the record) I would keep trying to answer your questions, as
> I am sure everyone else would, even if you choose to ignore our advice.
> One hint that I didn't notice in any of the previous thread. One easy
> way to keep a quick set up for a small H, or Q tank, is to run a double
> set of filters. Keeping a third handy. In the even of a problem, simply
> fill the H tank with water, remove one filter from the main tank, place
> the third filter on the main tank. You now have a bacterial colony,
> fully developed in the H tank. The new filter on the main tank, will not
> have a colony, however in most situations, the other filter, plus the
> rest of the non swimming bacteral colonies, will be able to keep the
> tank from having a major spike, until the new filter begins to grow its
> own bacterial colony. Then of course, once the H tank is broken down and
> cleaned and steralize, along with the old filter. We are now ready,
> again if they are needed. This assumes of course you use HOB's.
>
>
That's why I suggested running a sponge filter in the original thread.
I like sponge filters as a spare because they're cheap, IMO easier to
disinfect than a power filter, and can just be tossed and replaced if
the disease was particularly nasty. A HOB filter will work just fine if
that's your preference.

But the original poster is off in Mexico and apparantly prefers to keep
his pathogens healthy in a quarantine where they can attack the next
fish he puts in there.

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[NetMax]

"Elaine T" > wrote in message
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> But the original poster is off in Mexico and apparantly prefers to keep
> his pathogens healthy in a quarantine where they can attack the next
> fish he puts in there.
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LOL, maybe that was the plan ;~). There have been people on this group
who study aquatic pathogens for a living, (though for the record, I think
Art is a local architect, but everyone has hobbies ;~).
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