GarlicAlien
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Hello most knowledgable members of caudata.org, please help a newbie out.
My three axies have been in their small 10g tank since they were tiny, but they have now grown enough to warrant an upgrade.
So I've acquired a 40g tank - and I've been trying to cycle it for a few weeks now, to no avail.
I placed only 4 guppies in it (that's the most I could get my hands on, my LFS is... not that great), but still ammonia, nitrite and nitrate all register at 0.
Then I had an idea - maybe instead of dumping the water from the water changes in my current (cycled) 10g tank, I could put it in the larger tank, thus helping to kickstart the cycle... Is this a good idea?
Alternately, I could attach the 40g's canister filter to the 10g - I'd have to seriously reduce its flow (not sure if that is healthy for the filter, it is rated for a whopping 650 liters or 170 gallons so it is quite overpowered even for the 40g), but then it'd have some actual filth to filter. Would this help?
Help appreciated!
My three axies have been in their small 10g tank since they were tiny, but they have now grown enough to warrant an upgrade.
So I've acquired a 40g tank - and I've been trying to cycle it for a few weeks now, to no avail.
I placed only 4 guppies in it (that's the most I could get my hands on, my LFS is... not that great), but still ammonia, nitrite and nitrate all register at 0.
Then I had an idea - maybe instead of dumping the water from the water changes in my current (cycled) 10g tank, I could put it in the larger tank, thus helping to kickstart the cycle... Is this a good idea?
Alternately, I could attach the 40g's canister filter to the 10g - I'd have to seriously reduce its flow (not sure if that is healthy for the filter, it is rated for a whopping 650 liters or 170 gallons so it is quite overpowered even for the 40g), but then it'd have some actual filth to filter. Would this help?
Help appreciated!