On Jul 8, 10:58*pm, Andy Pastuszak wrote:
KurtG wrote:
You can toss in a *tiny cocktail shrimp, or some fish food etc and let
it spoil for a few days to get the action going, and then remove the
cocktail shrimp so it does not become too putrid. Monitor water
parameters for rise and then fall of Ammonia and then the nitrate and
nitrite cycyles etc.......no live fish need be used, or perhaps the
best way is get some filter media from an established tank and use it.
Even if there is a chance of ICH or some other problem in the
established tank, as long as there is no fish to host inthe new setup
it willdie off rather quickly long before the tank is finished
cycling. *So old filter media form an established tank works great as
does fish food or dead cocktailshrimp.

You know, I do have another working tank with an Aquaclear 200 in it.
That filter currently has 2 of the foam block inserts in it. *I should
be able to yank one of those out and use it, or even wring both blocks
out and pour the water into the new tank.

Andy

Sure can, just pull those foam blocks out of that filter and place i
the new filter. Can you exchange some substrate between the two tanks,
as that is also a way, as is using sopme water although water does not
carry as much goodies as foam or filter media or substrate does. Just
stick some filter bats in the operating filter and in a couple of days
it will be in habited as well.......