Cycle question

[cameronh]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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

 

[TomatoSauceTy]

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]

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

 

[cameronh]

Well ill have plenty of live rock from my lfb (local fish buddy) he has tons of corals and fish and live rock all setup in an outhouse.