Originally Posted by
turbochild
The tank was someone elses but they upgraded it then my old man gave me some water out of his tank plus the filters in the tank were used i also cleaned these out in some of my dad's tank water as i know his tank is healthy and i filled the rest up and put tap safe stuff in it the tank has been running for a couple of days and was up to temprature i was also told that would be fine well i'll just need to see what happens now i guess
If your using used filters, and part water from an already established tank, the cycle wont take as long as a brand new fresh tank. id just put a few cheap fish in, and see how it goes.