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Bear with me folks this is long :roll:... I have a few questions for you. First of all,my Fiance' bought me a brand new 10 Gallon tank for Christmas this past December 5 months ago. We cycled it, added female bettas, snails, and Cory cats slowly over the past months.
But now we found a used 29 gallon aquarium tank at a garage sale yesterday with an aquarium stand and plastic plants, gravel, filters, heaters etc etc...I never had a tank this big before. Is there anything special I need to do to cycle it, filter it, etc that is different from a 10 Gallon tank? We want to cycle it to transfer all the fish from the 10 Gal to the 29 Gal. First....How do you Sanitize a used tank. (I read a few books that said use a weak Bleach soultion with water, and some books say just use Baking soda water to make a paste, and also use Vinagar to get the hard water stains off) What is the correct and safe method to clean the used tank?
Some of the accesories look really old LOL... so I will probably get some new stuff. One thing will be a new filter. The lady who had it used both a under gravel filter and a hang off the back external filter. Whould it be good if I only used a big HOB filter only and not with an Undergravel one? (I heard the undergravel ones are hard to maintain)...
Does a 29 Gal tank take longer to cycle than a 10 Gal tank? What can I do to speed up the process? ( I read that I can add some of the 10 Gallon's tank gravel to the 29 Gallon's tank to jump start the cycle) Is this true? Are there any other ways too?
The lady's Garage sale that I bought it from, her family had used the tank for Fancy Goldfish only. She says they died because she moved from one state to another state and the water in the new state killed her Goldfish. She tried with new Goldfish but couuld never make them survive here in my state, so she gave up keeping fish.
Any info for me on this, or any other suggestions on anything about the tank and it's set up etc? I just want to do things the right way because my fish mean alot to me and I know that they would LOVE moving from the 10 Gallon to the 29 Gallon!! I want my fishies to be happy :-D
But now we found a used 29 gallon aquarium tank at a garage sale yesterday with an aquarium stand and plastic plants, gravel, filters, heaters etc etc...I never had a tank this big before. Is there anything special I need to do to cycle it, filter it, etc that is different from a 10 Gallon tank? We want to cycle it to transfer all the fish from the 10 Gal to the 29 Gal. First....How do you Sanitize a used tank. (I read a few books that said use a weak Bleach soultion with water, and some books say just use Baking soda water to make a paste, and also use Vinagar to get the hard water stains off) What is the correct and safe method to clean the used tank?
Some of the accesories look really old LOL... so I will probably get some new stuff. One thing will be a new filter. The lady who had it used both a under gravel filter and a hang off the back external filter. Whould it be good if I only used a big HOB filter only and not with an Undergravel one? (I heard the undergravel ones are hard to maintain)...
Does a 29 Gal tank take longer to cycle than a 10 Gal tank? What can I do to speed up the process? ( I read that I can add some of the 10 Gallon's tank gravel to the 29 Gallon's tank to jump start the cycle) Is this true? Are there any other ways too?
The lady's Garage sale that I bought it from, her family had used the tank for Fancy Goldfish only. She says they died because she moved from one state to another state and the water in the new state killed her Goldfish. She tried with new Goldfish but couuld never make them survive here in my state, so she gave up keeping fish.
Any info for me on this, or any other suggestions on anything about the tank and it's set up etc? I just want to do things the right way because my fish mean alot to me and I know that they would LOVE moving from the 10 Gallon to the 29 Gallon!! I want my fishies to be happy :-D