jungle products / Lenny
There’s not as much need to fishless cycle once you have a tank set up as long as you are just moving fish and not adding a whole new batch of fish. Once your current tank is cycled for the existing bioload, when you set up the new tank, just transfer 1/2 of the filter media from the existing filter to the new filter, split up the fish and you’re good to go. Or if transferring all of the fish from a smaller to larger tank, then you just transfer all of the filter media (or the entire filter system).
And if you get the tank bridge.. I’m not sure many retail outlets will sell them but there are several versions available online and you can even build your own if you are handy… I think you said you were. If you want links to the DIY one’s, let me know. There’s one that is made with acrylic and another that is made with clear and PVC pipe sections. You would also need a length of tubing to extend the intake tube on your HOB over into the other tank so it would create water flow through the bridge and also keep both tanks waters moving between themselves so if the fish decide to hang out in one tank, they would still benefit from the doubled water volume. One of our members out here recently bought a tank bridge on eBay and it was only around $10.00 plus shipping.
As far as the Python or Lee brand Water Change System, if they are so overpriced up there, you could get that in one of your smuggling trips down here.. or build a DIY one.. of course the DIY parts might be overpriced up there as well.
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