since the bacterias are not in the water column then no you cannot cycle an aquarium by just putting water from an established tank.
The way I set up mine and have zero ammonia, is to take a few pieces of liverock from my main tank and put it in there with bare bottom. I use a small canister filter to collect the scrap and that's it.
I have done a 4 weeks treatment with Seachem paraguard and that did not kill the bacterias. Same with hyposalinity, the bacterias survived just fine but all the feather stars, feather duster and bristle worms, pods etc died.
I did a 5 week hyposalinity for my hippo tang with ich and that worked great, then did a 4 weeks treatment of paraguard for my niger trigger with one pop eye and that also worked.
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Originally Posted by bignose
So after buying some fish that came with ich I've decided to learn from this mistake and start a qt. First I should mention that the sick fish I bought was not ready for sale and I place no blame on the store in any way.
Everyone please ask questions as I don't want this to be my thread and I would like to learn as much out of this as possible.
My first question is, can I set up a tank transfer some established tank water and have an instant qt? I would of course have a heater small light and powerhead in the tank.
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