TetraKeeper

Glad to meet you all. I have been keeping tropical freshwater fish for the past 7 years now and find it a very easy hobby.

I am starting my 65 gallon aquarium back up after taking a break to paint in the house. I had condensed my fish into a smaller, 20 gallon tank for a couple of months. It contains 4 Buenos Aires tetras and 9 black skirts, and is filtered by an Aqua-Clear 150 power filter. So I decided to give the Buenos Aires more room with the 65.

I bought new gravel for the 65-gallon tank and treating it like a new tank set up. It has an Aqua-Clear 300 power filter as the only filtration, some decorative wood and plastic plants. I filled 'er up, primed the filter, and am letting it stablize for the next four days. Then I will transfer over the 4 Buenos Aires tetras and let the cycling begin. I always water-test during the cycle, too.

I intend to keep 20 Buenos Aires tetras in the 65-gallon and about 10 black skirts in the 20-gallon, with just a single Aqua-Clear filter on each one. I hope this is a good plan. Any advice for my situation is welcome.

fishuz

sounds good i would let it cycle a little longer though maybe use some of the water from the 20 gallon to help speed things up a little

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30g FW
2 Cichlids
2 Barbs
2 Tetras
1 Chinese algae eater
77g FW
1Empty

gm333

Welcome to the forum!

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f1oored

Welcome tetrakeeper! It's always nice to see people with a few years experience join the forum. You might consider a fishless cycle on the larger tank since you already have all your fish in the 20. I don't see any reason to stress them by putting them in the new tank before the cycle is complete, especially if you want to keep these fish.

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70 lbs of dead rock
25 lbs of dead gravel
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Tommy Gun

Yes, WELCOME!!!!!

As f1oored points out, it is always good to see people who have lots of experience come to the forum. I think you make a great statement when you said you "find it a very easy hobby". You can certainly add alot here to help out the confindence of some people who are very new to the hobby and are frustrated with it all.

It is very good to meet you and I hope to talk to you more in the future!!!!