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Turtle tank to a tropical fish tank?
Question : Turtle tank to a tropical fish tank?
I just bought a 75 gallon tank that had previously housed a turtle. My plans are to convert to a tropical tank. Any special concerns or directions I need to know about? I am thinking about obviously cleaning everything with viniger and water, and then putting a new filter pad in. Do I need to cycle then?
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#2 written by Gazelle 1 year ago
Yes you should cycle your tank for a week or at least three days if you add a bacterial supplement. Then you should add some good starter fish like zebra danios if you want a peaceful community, giant danios if you want semi aggressive, and fatheads/rosey red minnows if you want aggressive fish(just understand that they will be eaten, but as feeder fish they are cheap). Both types of danios are schooling fish so you will need at least six but this is good for them and other fish will be encouraged to come into the open as they are dither fish.
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#3 written by Eddie C 1 year ago
The vinegar and water is a good idea(or light rubbing alchohol is even better) just clean the tank and the filter VERY WELL!! turtle have a lot of bacteria and diseases that can still be on the aquarium glass and in the internals of the filter so thouroughly cleaning the filter is necessary as well. As far as cylcling goes its not necessary but always a good idea especially since comng from turtles. The only other suggestion is completely letting the tank dry a day before adding any water, and even then putting a small amount of algae destroyer in since algae is very prominent with turtles and can cause a whole lot of problems for a fish tank.( i know from experience had a filter completely overrun with algae just 2 days after cleaning but the algae destroyer works wonders.
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do not use rubbing alcohol to clean and vinegar is not all that good either. just dilute some aquarium salt using a rag clean the inside of the tank. do this a couple of times to make sure you got everything. clean the filter the same way. to let the tank cycle you can add a couple of cheap fish, but not rosey reds, or minnows or goldfish. most cheap goldfish have some sort of disease and will ruin your cycling. and if that’s not bad enough minnows and rosy reds are worse. if you have another fish tank you could remove some water from that and add to the new, if not just get it set up and add the bacterial supplement that gazelle was talking about but i would still wait until your water parameters are good before adding your fish. my opinion is the less chemicals in the water the better. good luck with your new set up