weirdest thing...about a 10 gallon I was working the other day

[kyrie_eleison]

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[Loverotties]

I'd still waite.

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[jenajet]

That's the good thing about having mature systems. You can start up a new tank using mature rock and some water from the existing system and have very little if any cycle. You can always get a nice pc fixture for that tank pretty reasonable and make a nice softie or lps tank.

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[XeniaGirl]

I'm glad it worked out so well! How exciting... and think of all the money and time you saved!... you should go buy yourself something for your tank, to celebrate.

[YiNYaNg]

Yeap I did the same thing with my 10g .... Instant cycle

[Daemonfly]

Well, the main thing is that there should be no die-off like you'd get from new rock. Thats the big part of waiting for rock to cycle. All a cycle really is is populating everything with the proper bacteria, then waiting for the population levels to balance themselves. Nice clean rock & substrate thats already doing well in another tank won't have the issues that new rock will. "Uncycled" rock will have a lot of things dying, resulting in the excess waste chems.

Same reason Premium Aquatic's rock, for example, does so well as long as you ship it overnight/2-day. Their rock all sits in big vats and is already cycling. Also, if the rock at your LFS has been sitting for a while, it's already cycling there as well, but then again, some LFS rock can be pretty barren of life...

You don't even need to use wastewater from other tanks. Just rock & some sand for great results.

[zero186]

lol i have done it too with my 5.5 used curing rock and used sand and 50-50 new-old water it did it in about 6 days but my PH is low so i havent added and it feels werid too right now since it did it so fast

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[zero186]

there is other things you could get, but yea 10g is too small for a maroon clown .

we all have done something like that before, but as long as you realized it good job

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[jenajet]

Love my maroons! They are the most social of my fish (at least that I can touch and not get stung). My first fish was a maroon(still have her 6 years later and recently found her a mate that she didn't try to kill). Maybe you can get a used setup to move him to.

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