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Originally Posted by ramon
Will it help to cycle the new tank with water from an established tank
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It won't hurt anything to use water from an established tank, but it won't do much. Your good bacteria is mainly in your filter, in your gravel, and on the walls and decorations of the tank. It is not usually free floating. If you want to "borrow" some gravel from an established tank and put it in a nylon stocking and place it in your filter for the new tank, you could get bacteria that way. You could also place a smalll piece of sponge in the filter of an established tank a couple of weeks before setting up your new one, and then use this piece of sponge to seed your new filter in the new tank.