This is my gorgeous guy Sinatra I got 3 days ago from the PetSmart I have a part time job at. He's very interactive and loves attention. I've had a 5.5 gallon low tech planted tank cycling since I got him with about half of its water being from my neocaridina tank. Is it less dangerous to put him in his tank after only a week cycled than to keep him in the cup any longer? He's seems very healthy and I don't want to put him in more danger than I have to.
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Posted by Legendaryllamaz
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Depends on the values. Check ammonia and nitrite. Fritz complete can neutralize them for you. I say it be safer in the tank but only with Fritz complete. He’s swimming in ammonia right now anyway. Just do daily water changes until it cycles. Shouldn’t be too difficult with a 5g.
put him in the tank and try use some media from the filter on your shrimp tank in the filter for his tank
He’s beautiful, I love the name!
I’m team “get him out the cup”. His cup water is uncycled as it is, and way smaller than the tank you have set up for him. I agree with the other comment about using filter media from your other tank if you can. If you’re able to test his water daily/every other day to monitor spikes in ammonia and check in the cycling process, I’d definitely add him to his tank.
It’s better to get him in the tank and follow the steps for a fish-in cycle. It would have been most ideal to wait for purchase until the tank is ready, but that ship has sailed and the cup has no filtration and is building up ammonia
It’s easier to do a fish in cycle than to maintain safe and healthy parameters in a cup and the cup is extraordinarily stressful, not adequate temperature unless your house it kept at like 76f minimum, preferably 78f, no hiding place, etc. Get him in the tank where he can destress in peace.
If you can’t straight steal some media from the filter of your shrimp tank, squeeze some sludge from it straight into your new tank. Very little bacteria lives in the water itself, it’s on surfaces, the majority of that being your filter, some being your substrate/plants/decor and glass.