abirozy
Active Member
Hello
I have a strange problem and am hoping to get some advice. I have a 28 gallon nano that is done cycling and am having some fish delivered. The problem is that I have a few too many fish being delivered at once. My plan is to take my two clowns out and put them back in the old tank they lived in for a few years and replace them with the new fish. Then after my new tank has adjusted to the new bio load, place the clowns back in the new tank. My old tank was a two gallon and I have had two clowns in it for quite a few years and they were doing fine. The clowns have been out of the tank for a while now and I am trying to figure out the bio load problem.
1) Should I put my two clowns back in the old tank now when my new fish are coming on thursday, or will moving the fish this soon lower the bio-load capacity in my new tank in those 4 days?
2) If it is too soon to move them, at what point should I move them, the day the new fish are to arrive?
3) Since it has been over a month since I removed the fish from my two gallon, will the bio load capacity on that tank have gone down? I have kept it running.
4) I guess I am just trying to figure out how bio-load works... Once you establish the bacteria to handle a certain load, does that capacity dwindle if you remove stock?
Thanks for any advice
Adam
I have a strange problem and am hoping to get some advice. I have a 28 gallon nano that is done cycling and am having some fish delivered. The problem is that I have a few too many fish being delivered at once. My plan is to take my two clowns out and put them back in the old tank they lived in for a few years and replace them with the new fish. Then after my new tank has adjusted to the new bio load, place the clowns back in the new tank. My old tank was a two gallon and I have had two clowns in it for quite a few years and they were doing fine. The clowns have been out of the tank for a while now and I am trying to figure out the bio load problem.
1) Should I put my two clowns back in the old tank now when my new fish are coming on thursday, or will moving the fish this soon lower the bio-load capacity in my new tank in those 4 days?
2) If it is too soon to move them, at what point should I move them, the day the new fish are to arrive?
3) Since it has been over a month since I removed the fish from my two gallon, will the bio load capacity on that tank have gone down? I have kept it running.
4) I guess I am just trying to figure out how bio-load works... Once you establish the bacteria to handle a certain load, does that capacity dwindle if you remove stock?
Thanks for any advice
Adam
