You bought a fish and want to introduce it into a new tank. The number one issue for any new tank is beneficial bacteria. When you first set up a new tank you need to make sure to cycle it. What does cycling a tank mean. It means you've built up enough beneficial bacteria in your tank sufficiently to be able to introduce fish. The best way to cycle your tank is to set it up completely with all equipment and leave it running for about a month. You then have two options to introduce waste into the tank in order to accelerate the bacteria growth. You can either put fish food into the tank as if you were feeding a fish or you can include a small number of fish to make waste in the tank. After about a month there should be a bacteria count high enough to ensure the livelihood of the fish you want to house in your new tank. If you can't do the full month to give you enough bacteria you can do a shorter time, but you have to introduce fish at a much slower rate. Bacteria boosters can be used but don't depend on them doing all the work for you. Another option to cycle your tank faster is to move over filter, media, decorations, gravel from an already established tank to your new tank. This will be put bacteria bomb in your tank and will build your bacteria colony much faster. If you're still in doubt of the bacteria count being high enough in your tank you can feed much less food to your newly added fish. This will reduce the amount of wasting reducing the amount of bacteria needed to break the waste down. You can feed your new fish every other day or even every other couple of days. This will give the bacteria count in the tank a chance to catch up. If you have any further questions on this or any other matter, please feel free to contact us.
Updated on April 24, 2023
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