Michigan Cichlid Association
General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: danielratti on September 01, 2012, 12:54:42 PM
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Ok so I plan on moving my fish from my 90 to 180 I have filters and bio balls from the wet dry from work and my 2 400s on my 90. Can I just take the media from those and put in the wet dry would that be enough seeded bio plus my sand,rocks,driftwood, and.spongfilters to get the tank going without worrying too much.
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I would think so... But, keep an eye on parameters to be sure.
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You should be fine as long as you don't go hog wild and add more fish than what was being supported previously.
You'll undoubtedly lose some bacteria in the process so you want to give it time to build back up.
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Only adding some fry to the tank prly will not make it too long in there. I will watch them for sure though. Really only wanna add maybe a fusco and a pheno.
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If you can take water from the 90 as well, that would probably help.
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That's what I was just going to ask if it is possible for me to take all the water out should I do that
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There is usually bacteria in the water, so if you're just shutting down your 90, take it all. If you're keeping the 90 running, I wouldn't take more than half.
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I wouldn't worry too much about taking the water as I would be about keeping all the filter media, substrate& decor wet/Submerged in tank water . So, any BB present will live.
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So sand needs to stay completly under water.
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So sand needs to stay completly under water.
It is highly recommended to keep all media submerged just as Blair mentioned.
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Its gunna be some heavy ass buckets is all.
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Its gunna be some heavy ass buckets is all.
Half filled...just more trips
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Your dealing with a 25 year old here... I we all were my age one time why make more trips when you can kill youreself with the first one. Well so far no leaks last time it was due to bad bulkheads this time I've been running strong for 30 min and will check again after I shower.
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...why make more trips when you can kill youreself with the first one...
Laughing pretty hard at that one.
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Damn joint leaked I think I fixed it.now.
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Your dealing with a 25 year old here... I we all were my age one time why make more trips when you can kill youreself with the first one.
28 year old here - the handles on those 5- gallon buckets break when you have too much weight in them. ;)
I've also had the bottoms blow out from time to time. :o
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For some odd reason I decided to take all the buckets that no handles left... after 3 buckets of rocks and driftwood I'm kicking myself in the ass. Got the leak bfised earlier too had a plumber friend swing by and look at it he was a little confused how it was leaking but it was... the rocks and filtemedia all have airstones on them will this help keep all that stuff alive.
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Everything is moved and fish are in still cloudy just hoping it clears up soon used a lot of tank wster from the 90 as well.. Fish seem to be doing ok and hopefully all goes well with the transfer. bad news came as well with this. When I moved the tank in February my girlfriend had her brother in law help and his alcoholic friend since this was after my accident and only had one hand. I student know abbot it until today but some how the two of them wrinkly cracked the bottom pain of glass on the 90. I only found out after cutting my hand on as piece of glass sticking up.
Good news is I have the ok to buy more fish since my tank looks empty now. Oh and the.damn drop came back... Fixing it tomorrow