Hi from Chi-town!

[tazzy695]

Originally Posted by Otty

Lights fuel algae!

Since you have a tank up already then just use a few pieces of rock from it and a cup full of sand to start your 90g. Put one little Yellow Tail Damsel in there to keep the bacteria stable and let it run for a while. You already have the bacteria started in your FOWLR tank.

please spare the fish the stress and burning of the gills from amonia also dont put a damsel in that tank unless that is all you want they are aggresive and tend to harase other tank mates to death

[reyno26]

I've taken some LR from my 37 gal (I'm down to 800 lbs of LR now) for the new tank already and put some of my sand in there. I'd prefer to cycle without putting any fish in crisis (I just lost my 3 yr old Banghai Cardinal and you would have thought my granny died). Shrimp it is then. Is it okay to take the water from my 37 gal & put it in the 90? I wanted to transfer everything over to the 90 gal, so I left room for the 37 gal water. Is this okay, or not?

[reyno26]

I have an Allen Damsel in my 37 gal and aside from "puffing up" on a new introduction, he's been pretty tame.

[Otty]

Originally Posted by tazzy695

please spare the fish the stress and burning of the gills from amonia also dont put a damsel in that tank unless that is all you want they are aggresive and tend to harase other tank mates to death

Do you spare the fish from stress when you cook it to eat...

Plus I don't think you are speaking from experience on the yellow tail because if you have only one in the tank and not two there will be no problems at all. I share experience not hear say, worked just fine for me and tons of others.

Plus if you are starting a tank with established rock and sand from another aquarium then it will not be a hard cycle.

[reyno26]

I spare the fish about as much as I spare the cow..........

[Otty]

Originally Posted by reyno26

I spare the fish about as much as I spare the cow..........

Me 2

[tazzy695]

Originally Posted by Otty

Do you spare the fish from stress when you cook it to eat...

Plus I don't think you are speaking from experience on the yellow tail because if you have only one in the tank and not two there will be no problems at all. I share experience not hear say, worked just fine for me and tons of others.

Plus if you are starting a tank with established rock and sand from another aquarium then it will not be a hard cycle.

ok how would you feel if I put you in a house full of pesticide and told you to make it clean to live in same therory

when I eat fish I kill it instantly not a long painfull death that it dosn't deserve this is an old school method of cycling and with the knoledge we know now about the cycle process there is no need to introduce a fish that could possibly bully a more sensitive and much more expensive fish later on and kill that other fish

no I dont have any damsels in my tank and dont want them I have tried a few and they were a major pita but 2 out of 3 died in the first week of cycle I will not ever make that mistake again

[Otty]

Originally Posted by tazzy695

but 2 out of 3 died in the first week of cycle I will not ever make that mistake again

3 fish in a cycling tank, no wonder you lost them. I know what works for me so you can go ahead and do what ever you want. This information is free...take it or leave it for the next person to decide.

[reyno26]

Can't we all get along? Change of topic - how about using the water from my 37 in the 90?

[tazzy695]

yea using the water and all the rock from your old tank will help lessen the cycle emensely