"Elaine T" wrote in message
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You know, you can take some old filter media like spent carbon, a worn
out sponge or cartridge, or some biomedia from one of your established
tanks and put it in your new filter for a few weeks. You will transfer
enough bacteria to keep fish immediately with no cycle. Just be sure
the "donor" tank is healthy.




Not quite true. You can seed a filter to speed up the cycle, but it still
has to cycle and will cycle. It will just do it faster since it has "seed"
bacteria to get things started. The fishless cycle is still the way to go
until it is COMPLETELY cycled.

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