Tropical Fish Forum
Tropical Fish Keeping Help and Advice => Fishtank Filtration and Cycling => Topic started by: deano79 on November 20, 2014, 08:00:00 PM
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If I buy a new filter for my current setup, will I need to keep my current filter operating alongside the new one for a bit?
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Hi deano,
If you get a filter that takes the same type of media ( although i'm not sure this is essential) you can put a bit of your old filter media in your new filter and this will seed it. You still need to allow the tank to cycyle though before you add fish.
FC76
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run it along side but when you clean your old
one out put the squeegeings in to your new filter
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You can run both together but you need to leave them both running for at least 6 weeks, and even then when you remove the old filter you might well see an ammonia and/or nitrite spike.
As Fishcake says, it is much better to put all the old media into the new filter any way it will fit.
Is this the tank with the platy with whitespot? If it is, it might be worth waiting until the whitespot is gone before doing anything with the filter
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It is the same tank Sue, I am currently treating the tank. I was only thinking of a new filter for sometime in the future so not now