How To Add Fish Right Away To Your NEW Aquarium - Easy Guide

So you just got a new fish tank, and you are excited to put fish in your new aquarium. If you add fish right away, you could have some issues, as the tank has not been cycled. This video explains how you may be able to add fish right away to your new aquarium. I also cover how to have a quarantine tank always available.

Here are the medications that I use when quarantining my fish:

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[TazawaTanks]

Here are the medications that I use when quarantining my fish:

[joecassara]

Great video with a ton of useful info for beginners. It's sad how so many people leave this great hobby due to frustration from a bad start due to misinformation.

[ritenour]

Yep ever since my first tank I’ve used this method I usually just squeeze a sponge filter from another tank into any new tank and it cycles immidetly I’ve had no problems in seven years doing this

[alexiswilson]

The amount of people online that argue with me when I mention instant cycling is insane. Thank you for this video, I’ll be sharing this link next time it comes up :)

[JTCT]

You can set up an aquarium and add fish on day 1 without any beneficial bacteria. If you don't have live plants, stock slowly and be on top of your aquarium to dilute ammonia, and nitrites....If you have a good ratio of plants to water (think 2 per gallon), now you have a place for ammonia and nitrites to get filtered out of the water as quickly as it begins to accumulate. No human can create a filter which does what plants do. They were designed that way and create a much healthier, stable aquarium.

[ThierryC]

Fish do no die right away with nitrites, I have had a Nitrite spike for 6 days due to hidden dead snail. The spike went up to 2 ppm over the course of 3 days, large water changes solved the issue along with the removal of the stinky snail. A perfect way to start an instant aquarium is using live bacterias such as Fritz Zyme 7, tested and approved!! I started an emergency 10 gallons with only a water pump, no filter at all, a bit of brand new filter moss thrown in the tank and Fritz Zyme, tossed 10 fish in that for 2 weeks and not a single dead a month later after redoing the 10 gallons properly. Supervision of water parameters is key to react when water change is required.

[theresaabshire]

All great ideas & info ! I learned a long time ago to keep extra filter media in my filters so I have cycled media available at all times. Always a must have for fish keepers !

[cindylou]

Thank you! I research so much I sometimes confuse myself, and this brought all of it together in my head for me.

[amandajoanbaker]

Happy Saturday Zenzo, always nice to have my lazy Saturday morning routine watching your video!
For years I kept an aquarium without understanding the cycle, understanding it makes it sooo much easier! I’ve done fishless cycling but find a fish-in cycle with used media easier. With used media I rarely get ammonia, but do get nitrite and still need to stock lightly and test regularly.

[rogerhuggettjr.]

I recently bought a new 75-gallon tank to move my 7 goldfish from a 55-gallon tank I was worried might be getting cramped. I put 7 Amazon swords and some pothos clippings in, a piece of decor from the other tank and added some live bacteria I had purchased when setting up a 29-gallon a couple months earlier. I moved the two fantails I had first thinking they were the least destructive and water was great for two days. I added a shubunkin next and that was all that was needed to throw off the ammonia and see the swords pulled up. Moved the shubunkin back and bought a small butterfly telescope goldfish and decided to take my time to complete the change. The telescope is only 3", the fantails are 5" and the shubunkin are 6-8" so by waiting the baby will have time to grow and the swords will have a solid root system by the time they are challenges. I have swords in the other tank, but having such an empty tank must have left my trial fish bored.

[BogdanBogdan-dkiv]

In the last years i.ve always did fish in from the first day using prime and stability from Seachem with absolutly no problem ever...

[dolphindiver]

Thanks! I am starting up a bigger tank for my cichlids. I set it up and had NO idea I could Kickstart by using my floss in their current tank! That's awesome!

[swimmye.]

Nice work Zenzo! You had a lot of ideas in this video I hadn’t thought of before!

[TheRealGame]

I am going to have my first aquarium. It will definitely be a sand substrate aquarium. I do need any and every tip you are willing to give. I plan to have a 10-20 gallon tank. Maybe a 15 gallon. I want to have a couple of guppies and minnows.
Thanks for your tips. :)

[dappledlight]

One thing to add would be that if getting mulm/cycled media from a LFS, that it can be a route to introduce certain diseases to a tank. Just something for folks to be aware of.

[ritenour]

My advice to any newbie is water changes are key I been in the hobby all 21 years of my life and the one thing I’ve learned is never skip that water change

[jeffalbillar]

I have never quarantined a fish or cycled a tank without putting in fish .
I've never lost a fish doing this.
Of course I almost always put Catfishes or plecostomus in first.
Not one loss.

[joe-orange]

Wow.... Very informative and easy to follow.... I am one step closer in buying my very first aquarium.... I need to review, one more time, the nitrogen cycle. thanks in advance for your video.

[alan]

Your posting was very helpful. I really appreciate it!

[jhuckobey]

I always have some tanks to jumpstart the cycle, but I am also fond of the fritz product as well.