MICHIGAN MEMBERS - I may need your help!!

[seuadr]

Last night, my puffer tank crashed. I believe it was due to poor quality root tabs (i should have known better)

anyhow. i have been thinking about a QT tank, but i do not have the equipment, nor the funds to set one up at the moment. I am trying to re-cycle that tank as quickly as possible, but i replaced ALL of the substrate (just to be sure)

i've re-housed puff in my 36 gallon bowfront. It is a planted tank, and there are lots of hiding spots, but there are also around 10 school fish in there, and they are quite a bit larger than puff. I do't know if he is gonna hold his own, or terrorize them too much, so i may need to re-home him if it isn't going to be a good scenario until the puff tank is safe again.

i am hoping that, given i have 750+G of bio blocks and the old filter material (wet/dry sump setup) that should be relatively unaffected by the ferts that it will cycle quickly, but i thought i'd stick a feeler out just in case.

[Pufferpunk]

Do a 90% WC, cleaning the substrate well & add Tetra's Safestart to the filter. I have recovered several crashed tanks this way.

[seuadr]

Do a 90% WC, cleaning the substrate well & add Tetra's Safestart to the filter. I have recovered several crashed tanks this way.

because the root tabs disentegrated in the substrate, i had to remove it to be sure that i got all of the chemicals out. I did add api's version of safe start last night. in addition to all of the plants that were growing in there, i put several bunches of chain swords floating, since they seem to be pretty prolific at absorbing nutrients. I am hopeful that in the meantime everything will work out well, since puff is in a tank with a TON of hiding places. he was swimming around last night. even the shrimp lived, so i think i was fast enough.

my wife was really confused when i started reaching in the tank and grabbing shrimp and fish and cupping them in my hands and running to the other tank and tossing them in, though. my 2 year old daughter thought it was hilarious and quite a good time and started running back and forth with me

[JRC3]

Specifically what filters do you have on each tank? Can you just move some filter media over from the 36g?

[seuadr]

my small puffer tank has a wet/dry sump system. i have mechanical filtration and 750g of bio blocks and a purigen pad.

the larget tank has a fluval 205 canister with 1500g of bio blocks and several stages of mechanical filtration, and a purigen pad.

last night i stopped at the LFS on the way home from work and got a bottle of dr tim's one and only and dumped it into the tank, then aclimated everyone and moved them back. seems to be fine thus far, although puff had a field day with the population of snails in my larger tank, none of them seem to by any worse for the wear. the smallest amano is now milky and i suspect will be moving on to the afterlife soon, but i don't think it is related as the ghost shrimp and other amano are still pretty healthy looking.

i guess i got a little excited and worried for no reason!