New fresh water aquarium?

Question

OK so im upgrading my fish tank from 2 small ones to a 289 l one size is 1268 x 500 x 705 and heres the run down, ill be using new gravel maybe some of the old ones and a fake tree log and ill put a a small power head in the cycled aquarium so when the new one arrives ill put to run in the new one to help the water to cycle ill be adding a diluted solution of jbl denitrol 1/3 bacteria and the rest of aquarium water to put in the new filter, a tetra safe start and about 10 liters of the small aquarium water, do i still have to wait 3 days to put in new fish?, i was thinking of putting a cory catfish to accelerate the cycle after about a few hours.
So how many fish per day can i add after, ill be having in total adding new fish 15 neon tetras, clown pleco,5 male guppies, 4 dwarf gouramis male, 3 cory catfish, little Ludwigia repens Live not plastic and maybe 2 -4 small fish, think will it be ok considering having 1 fish per gallon.

Answer 1

I would recommend you move 1 or both of the filters from the cycled tanks to the new tank along with it's filter and move your fish right in. There may be a small spike in the ammonia levels, but not much if any due to the bacteria in the old filters. After a few weeks remove one of the old filters and allow the tank to adjust to that bacteria lose. Then a few weeks later remove the other old filter. Each time there may be a very small short ammonia spike, but not enough to be concerned about. It's a long process, but reasonably safe as well.

Once you have it down to one filter, then start adding the new fish one species at the time about a week or so apart.

Sound like it will be a great looking tank!

MM

Answer 2

I don't have an answer for your fish question, but maybe you could use this tidbit I've read a few times on different webpages: In order to further speed up your cycle, use gravel from your other tank- at least a cup of it. If you don't want to mix it in with your new gravel because of different color/size, just put it in one of those nylon socks you can get for free from a shoe store. Tie the top and push it into your new gravel for awhile.

Apparently that helps. I, unfortunately, don't already have a fish tank and I don't want to use the pet store's gravel because of all the dead fishies I see once in awhile. Plus it's just not recommended to use the store's.

So if you want, just put some of your old substrate into a nylon sock or cut the bottom off of some nylons, or just find a mesh back or something like that.

Hope it helps a bit!

Answer 3

i suggest you wait but you can do that if you want. my fishes have better results if you wait. i don't know about waiting 3 days but you can do that, i suggest 1-1 1/2days though. the one- for-one rule sometimes don't work. i did that with a 30 gallon aquarium and the fishes competed for space. most of them lost there lives. so i suggest one-for-five gallons.