Not sure where best to put this post, but decided here was probably most appropriate. I've been a bit of an idiot and accepted some pygmy coreys and neon green rasboras before I have my quarantine tank set up (tocotoex!).
It's a 50 litre and has a sand/gravel substrate with guppy grass, java moss, and ubiquitous duckweed. It will also have some bits of baby of java fern I plan to propagate onto bogwood. Eventually it'll have a few nerites and cherry shrimp as permanent inhabitants. So far so good, future-me will be grateful to past-me.
Current-me, however, has said she'll have these new fish before the tank is cycled.
I do not have a cycled sponge filter to put in there, but I do have a HOB breeder box that's been running for a couple of months on an established tank with filter floss/foam and a parlour palm and a peace lily growing in ceramic beads and some lava-rock rubble.
My choices are
1. Move the HOB set-up to the new tank and add the fish to to quarantine and pray
2. Add the fish to my main tank and pray.
Which is my least bad option? I cannot give backword on the fish, which would be my ideal option. Thanks in advance.
It's a 50 litre and has a sand/gravel substrate with guppy grass, java moss, and ubiquitous duckweed. It will also have some bits of baby of java fern I plan to propagate onto bogwood. Eventually it'll have a few nerites and cherry shrimp as permanent inhabitants. So far so good, future-me will be grateful to past-me.
Current-me, however, has said she'll have these new fish before the tank is cycled.
I do not have a cycled sponge filter to put in there, but I do have a HOB breeder box that's been running for a couple of months on an established tank with filter floss/foam and a parlour palm and a peace lily growing in ceramic beads and some lava-rock rubble.
My choices are
1. Move the HOB set-up to the new tank and add the fish to to quarantine and pray
2. Add the fish to my main tank and pray.
Which is my least bad option? I cannot give backword on the fish, which would be my ideal option. Thanks in advance.
