View RSS Feed

1AaronTravels

Quarantine Tank - 16 Gal. Bow Front - Cycling and Salt Question

Rate this Entry
2 Comments
by
1AaronTravels
, 01-18-2011 at 12:42 PM (1693 Views)
Hello All,

My weekend project was to build a Quarantine Tank and start it cycling. I built the cabinet from scratch wood leftovers and the tank used to be a red ear slider Turtle tank. All in all I'm impressed that it's straight and level... lol.

Now, I've read a lot about the various ways to cycle a tank and was wondering if anyone has ever tried the dead shrimp into the tank as a biological medium to start the cycle on its way?

And what is the relationship between temperature and salinity? do I want the tank temp at 75 degrees and 1.025 salinity or get the tank at 81-82 and then set the salinity at 1.025. This being for the Quarantine and soon the Display tank???

Thanks,
Aaron
Attached Thumbnails Attached Thumbnails Click image for larger version Name: DSC_0034.jpg‎ Views: 270 Size: 83.7 KB ID: 3886   Click image for larger version Name: DSC_0035.jpg‎ Views: 276 Size: 74.2 KB ID: 3887  

Submit "Quarantine Tank - 16 Gal. Bow Front - Cycling and Salt Question" to Digg Submit "Quarantine Tank - 16 Gal. Bow Front - Cycling and Salt Question" to del.icio.us Submit "Quarantine Tank - 16 Gal. Bow Front - Cycling and Salt Question" to StumbleUpon Submit "Quarantine Tank - 16 Gal. Bow Front - Cycling and Salt Question" to Google

Tags: salt, temperature
Categories
‎ Water Chemistry , ‎ DIY projects , ‎ Questions - Need some input

Comments

  1. srusso's Avatar
    I would take a small piece of live rock from your display to seed the tank. Also when you get a sponge filter for the tank have it run in your sump for a while then move it to your QT after a few weeks.
  2. Sisterlimonpot's Avatar
    I have used the dead shrimp cycle a couple times for my QT tank, and I would definitely recommend that you bring the temp and salinity to what you have your display at. Toss the shrimp in and wait for the ammonia to rise to, then remove the shrimp and wait for the ammonia to go to 0 before adding fish.

    Unless you're going to put fish in the QT right away, you’ll need to continue feeding the biological filtration a source of ammonia to sustain the bacteria.

    Of course this is the slow process of cycling your QT, sometimes you can’t plan when you need to have one ready. In those situations I would definitely suggest srusso idea and have a filter that fits your QT’s hang on back sitting in the sump of your display tank already cultured and teaming with bacteria for those ‘quick get the QT ready to go’ scenarios.