Kick starting new tank with pre conditioned water.
 

Hello,

I have just purchased a 300 litre aquarium to be used for Tropical
freshwater.

I already have an established 100 litre aquarium, and I do partial water
changes every 4 or 5 days. Can I kick start this aquarium with 50 litres of
the other tanks water? Or should I start afresh?

Regards,

Gary.

Do not start fresh.. Use the 50 litres as you propose.

"Gary" wrote in message
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Hello,

I have just purchased a 300 litre aquarium to be used for Tropical
freshwater.

I already have an established 100 litre aquarium, and I do partial water
changes every 4 or 5 days. Can I kick start this aquarium with 50 litres
of the other tanks water? Or should I start afresh?

Regards,

Gary.

Using the 50 litres of old tank water would help kick start the tank, but
better would be some filter media or gravel in a mesh bag placed into the
new tanks filter. If by chance, you're using Emperor 400's on both tanks,
you can run them with one new / one old bio wheel in each tank. The Eheim
liberty also have biopads that can be set up one old, one new for a new
tank.
This can reduce and almost eliminate the cycle process depending on initial
fish loading and the adequacy of your current biological filtration. Don't
remove so much biological filtration that you cause a mini-cycle in your
established tank.
Tim
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