First RCS Tank - Question
Posted: Wed Jan 28, 2009 10:52 am
Ok, I have fallen in love with RCS now and am going to have to have a tank devoted to them. And I would like to make sure I get it set up properly for them before I get them. Someone tell me if this wont work.
I have had the "Biomax bag" part of the filter on a aquaclear 30 in the back of a whisper 60 on my well established 75 gallon tank for about a month in anticipation of something like this.
I plan on using that aquaclear 30 with that biomax bag on a 10 gallon tank along with a couple of handfuls of gravel and maybe some mulm/detrius, and a piece of large driftwood from the 75 gallon. Then getting a big bunch of java moss(should have extra bacteria) and about 10 RCS.
I have used this method before on hospital tanks and it seemed to work fine, but I just wanted to make doubly sure. I have read that RCS are sensitive to nitrate poisoning.
Should that be enough bacteria to start the tank without doing fishless cycling or something?
I would of course make sure the water temp is right and de-chlorinated good.
My tap water:
ph: 7.2
kh: 4
Nitrates are zero
I have had the "Biomax bag" part of the filter on a aquaclear 30 in the back of a whisper 60 on my well established 75 gallon tank for about a month in anticipation of something like this.
I plan on using that aquaclear 30 with that biomax bag on a 10 gallon tank along with a couple of handfuls of gravel and maybe some mulm/detrius, and a piece of large driftwood from the 75 gallon. Then getting a big bunch of java moss(should have extra bacteria) and about 10 RCS.
I have used this method before on hospital tanks and it seemed to work fine, but I just wanted to make doubly sure. I have read that RCS are sensitive to nitrate poisoning.
Should that be enough bacteria to start the tank without doing fishless cycling or something?
I would of course make sure the water temp is right and de-chlorinated good.
My tap water:
ph: 7.2
kh: 4
Nitrates are zero