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"Gill Passman" wrote in message
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atomweaver wrote:


Umm, was this comment directed at me? I know this, which is why I like
his site so much, even though I don't like Google Groups.

DaveZ

Not aimed at you at all :-)....just a further advisory to the OP because
you mentioned NetMax as a great resource of information.....google groups
are not to everyone's taste and many prefer Usenet....they have their
pluses and their minuses.....

Gill :-)

Yea but NetMax is from the groups.
That name has kudo......
I would compare it to aXXo
But I agree, his site is a good beginner faq
and he is a nuetral source of info.
which is rare these days
Man has done a lot of good,
for a lot of peeps and a lotta fish.
WoooooooT!!

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hopenfuture via PetKB.com wrote:
Thanks! I got on the cycling website you suggested. It helped alot! One
suggestion...

"The nitrogen cycle can be sped up or ``jump started'' in a number of ways.
Unfortunately, they require access to an established tank, which a beginning
aquarist may not have available. The basic idea is to find an established
tank, take some of the bacteria out of it and place them in the new tank.
Most filters have some sort of foam block or floss insert on which nitrifying
bacteria attach. Borrowing all or part of such an insert and placing it in
the new tank's filter gets things going more quickly."

I have a 5 gallon tank that is over 1 1/2 old. I'm going to try & jumpstart
off of that tank.

Hmmmmm.....not sure that you would get enough good bacteria from a 5
gallon tank to successfully seed a 55 gall tank with your current fish
load....won't harm but I doubt that it will help that much.....if it was
the other way round it should work - ie using it from a larger
established tank to seed a smaller one with a lower fish load - do it
myself all the time....it might also work if you had a very low fish
load in the tank to be seeded but I'm doubtful even then.

There are some products available that are supposed to help with the
cycling process - don't know where you are located but if the US then
I've heard good reports of BioSpira - I understand that you need to make
sure that it has been refrigerated correctly before buying it. It isn't
available over here in the UK so I can't give a personal recommendation
based on my experience. I remember seeing a similar product over here in
the LFS the other day but skimmed over it as the only new tanks I'm
setting up at the moment are SW.

I think you might need to return some of your fish if possible, until
your cycle is complete. Your ammonia will spike, followed by nitrites
and both are harmful to your fish, if not fatal. Keep testing the water
daily to monitor it. As your ammonia rises try a product such as
Ammolock to neutralise the effect, as your nitrites rise try adding salt
to aleviate the damage to the gills.....

Gill
Also posting on The Freshwater Aquarium
http://groups.google.com/group/The-F...quarium?lnk=li

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hopenfuture wrote:

Any suggestions?

Try a newsgroup devoted to freshwater aquariums.

George Patterson
If you torture the data long enough, eventually it will confess
to anything.