Brand New Tank With Cycled Water! Trigger Question, Help!

souljah

souljah

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I just set up a brand new 75 gallon tank with all cycled water from my friends 200 gallon that he had for 1 year.
I was curious if I could put a 1 and 1/2 inch assasi trigger in it now.
If and when it gets too big I'll give it to my friend but I was curious if a trigger would live in a brand new tank with all cycled water.
would this be ok?
let me know <img src="graemlins//confused.gif" border="0" alt="[confused]" />
 
von_rahvin

von_rahvin

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def, i would not add a fish.
after you get your rock and sand settled check your readings when they are al 0 ammonia nitrites and nitrates then you are ready to add fishies
 
hunterdaddy

hunterdaddy

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Who was the guy that said adding cycled water dosent speed up the process?? Anyways thats wrong. The tank cant really be considered "cycled" but adding all that bacteria will speed the process up.
 
broomer5

broomer5

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I would not add a Trigger to a new tank - no matter what water I used.
As far as the "cycled" water;
I'm sure if measured, we'd find "some" free floating bacteria in the water of our tanks.
But this is by no means the foundation of an active, functioning biological filter.
As Ed and Johnny mentioned, the bacteria reside on the "hard" surfaces, substrate, live rock, glass, and any biomedia you may have.
You must allow these bacteria to populate these hard surfaces to become a true working biofilter.
This takes time - and aside from maintaining temperature, water circulation, oxygen and a food source ( ammonia/nitrite ) there is very little we can to to make it occur fast.
Using another persons tank water to me gains you very little, and actually opens up a whole new question of disease, prior copper treatment, and other "unknown/uncontrollable" issues.
Risk versus Gain - not much gain IMO.
 
naturelover

naturelover

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In my experience I did the same thing but of course I moved around 40 lbs of LR and Filter to the new setup to speed up the process using brand new cc. Added damsel after 12hrs and every thing is in going well after 3 months as a reef tank. Stocks are 2 flower pot(red and green) 1 colt corel, 3 toadstool, diff. musrooms, diff. polyps, condi anamone, seabae anamone, pair of percula clown, 1 maroon clown, banded shrimp,6 peppermint shrimp, watchman goby, a pair of spotted hawk, a royal granma which I see only at feeding time and both damsels I added after 12hrs. I would do this again and again since I had 2 tanks setup this way. But would not recommend that it works every time. I must be a lucky one and it worked both times.
 
jakob4001

jakob4001

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hey ITandFISH, would like to see few pics of your flower pots; have not seen red ones before & hear flower pots are suppose to be amongst the hardest corals to keep...
 
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