Cycle question

cameronh · Oct 21, 2015

Ok guys, my biocube will be here tomoro. Im gonna go and pick the live rock up tomoro night and sand and what not. So I was gonna fill it up with live rock to help the cycle and was wondering if I could dump some water change water from my other tank into this one. Will this help. It sounds logical in my head but maybe im wrong. Thanks guys

joecrack8 · Oct 21, 2015

Definitely that water has all ready cycled and so that is what you want. Use as much of it as you can and maybe even add a damsel to help cycle.

cameronh · Oct 21, 2015

Thanks for the reply man. Ill just add live rock and water change water. I dont wanna subject the damsel to that though, even though they can take it, I imagine it probably sucks for the damsel lol.

Salty1962 · Oct 22, 2015

Water is not much use for cycling a new tank. The beneficial bacteria is in the sand and LR. Water has very little bacteria.

redfishbluefish · Oct 22, 2015

Agree with Salty.....water is not going to do much.....little bacteria in the water. You'd be better off putting a rock or some sand for your existing tank into the new tank to get it going.

shoelaceike · Oct 22, 2015

If the rock is really live and you have enough of it, you shouldn't have a cycle at all.

TomatoSauceTy · Oct 22, 2015

I swear the cycling with damsels needs to be banned. Why would you ever put a fish in your tank that 99% of the time you don't want, is aggressive esp in small tanks, is a pain in to catch, and why subject a life to conditions not suitable for a fish.

I can easily compare this to humans and everyone gets all defensive.

brandon429 · Oct 22, 2015

Let's say you simply lifted the rock out of the lfs vat and set it in a bucket of sw and brought it home submerged...no recycle

I would link a cool thread for examples but apparently imageshack has blocked all my links now the thread has no pics which stinks