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I was sitting here thinking about my tank cycling today and a thought hit me. I thought that it may be a good idea but I'd better let the experts (you guys) make sure it's safe. Any ways a friend of mine has a well established, cycled tropical fish tank. I was wondering if I could take something out of his tank whether it be substrate or a little hide and set it in my tank to sorta "transplant" the good bacteria from his tank to mine to help my cycle get done sooner. Is this safe? His fish have no signs of disease and he's had them for 8-9 months now. Has any one had experience or succes doing this? If so let me know. I willing to hear what y'all have to say on this "transplanting" subject. :)
 
As long as you know where its coming from and know the tank is healthy then yes.

Filter media from an established tank is great too.
Also if you could run your filter in their tank for a week then put it in your tank that would really help.
Really anythin that lets you "culture" the bacteria and put it in your tank would work
Bacteria reside most abudantly in your filter media. Also find it on hides and on substrate
 
Sorry for hijacking the post haha but how long does it take for a new filter to get a bacteria colony if its running in an established tank?
Ive read from 1 day to a week and thats quite a large gap!
 
It depends on how much media you use and how heavily stocked your tank is.

If you have a large tank with just a few animals, it's basically an instant cycle. You've moved enough bacteria to handle the ammonia output of your animals. If your tank is small and heavily stocked, it could take a few days for the bacteria you've moved to multiply enough to handle the bioload on your tank.
 
Okay so I could pretty much run my filter in his tank and it'll grow bacteria on it. Cool! This cycle may be faster than I thought!
 
Kaysie said:
It depends on how much media you use and how heavily stocked your tank is.

If you have a large tank with just a few animals, it's basically an instant cycle. You've moved enough bacteria to handle the ammonia output of your animals. If your tank is small and heavily stocked, it could take a few days for the bacteria you've moved to multiply enough to handle the bioload on your tank.
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My situation is that I'm changing the filter in my cycled tank to a more suitable one, but don't want to mess up my cycle. They're both running at the moment, but I don't want to prematurely remove my old one :confused:
 
That's an excellent way to do it, Layna, as long as you don't have any animals in the tank (too much flow!). You could also remove all the media from the old filter and just float it in the tank instead of running both filters.
 
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