Use copepods to cycle a tank?

[exnisstech]

1. Get a block of sponge
2. Give it to a friend to keep in their sump
3. When you setup your tank, throw the sponge in your sump

Done.

This is what we do to setup quarantine tanks and instantly have ammonia processing online. As usual, the internet takes something simple and turns it into a complicated mess.

This works well. When I was adding more fish and QTing I used aquaclear 110 hobs and always had a couple of sponges in the sump ready to go.

 

[saltyfish24]

1. Get a block of sponge
2. Give it to a friend to keep in their sump
3. When you setup your tank, throw the sponge in your sump

Done.

This is what we do to setup quarantine tanks and instantly have ammonia processing online. As usual, the internet takes something simple and turns it into a complicated mess.

Do you QT the sponge...or just let whatever flatworms and aiptasia get into a new tank?

 

[christa55]

I cycled wit a damsel, cocepods and live rock. I added polyfilter and purigen to make it a more controled cycle. I allso added microbe lift wich helped a lot. Cycle took 3 weeks