Okay, so here's my issue, I have a 10g aquarium that's all the way cycled and aged 8 months that my fantail goldfish lives in. I bought (day before yesterday) a 29g tank and am trying to get it set up and cycled. The problem is that (technically) yesterday my parents bought me two "buddies" for my fish and her new tank. They don't understand cycling OR isolation. I had planned on doing this all myself, cycling the 29, putting Gremlin in IT and using her old tank as the qt for ONE other fish. So I have the fish (both about an inch long) in a fish bowl with cultured gravel from Grim's tank and a bubble stone. Is it safer to put them in a fishbowl where I can do VERY frequent water changes to keep levels down, or in the cycling tank, where I need to let the ammonia and nitrite levels spike and fall again?
Thanks, everyone, I already had 2 filters for the 29g, I was trying to go all out and get everything that I could afford for my baby (Gremlin), I've had her for 8 months and have NEVER had any illness, parasites or anything with her, I've babied her. I was just worried about introducing 2 strange new fish from a tank I did not see in with her, the introduction of illness and parasite. I guess it would be easy to treat them, but I just worry about her dying from some illness they may have that I don't see.
And yes, after the 29g is completely set up, I will no longer be able to use the 10g anymore, mom is taking it for her own use somewhere else, for whatever she wants it for, that was part of the deal for me to be able to get the 29g tank, a trade off.
Thanks, everyone, I already had 2 filters for the 29g, I was trying to go all out and get everything that I could afford for my baby (Gremlin), I've had her for 8 months and have NEVER had any illness, parasites or anything with her, I've babied her. I was just worried about introducing 2 strange new fish from a tank I did not see in with her, the introduction of illness and parasite. I guess it would be easy to treat them, but I just worry about her dying from some illness they may have that I don't see.
And yes, after the 29g is completely set up, I will no longer be able to use the 10g anymore, mom is taking it for her own use somewhere else, for whatever she wants it for, that was part of the deal for me to be able to get the 29g tank, a trade off.