Cycling and Fry

Question
QUESTION: I currently have a 50 gallon in excellent condition. I recently acquired a 10 gallon with 5 female guppy. The tank had not fully cycled (serious problems with ammonia over 2ppm, Nitrates at 160ppm and Nitrites at 5ppm.)I thought by adding a lot of water from my 50 gallon it would help the process but it did not. Anyway, The one female gave birth to 16 fry this morning. (I did not know she was pregnant) Now this becomes even more problematic.  I did about a 35% water change , added some more gravel from my 50 gallon, and even added some BioSpira to see if that would help. I am very concerned about the fry. The are in a Breeder tank on the 10 gallon. I thought about moving them to my 50 but the water conditions are so different I think it would shock them. PLEASE HELP!
ANSWER: HiYa!

Move the fry with the breeder tank into your 50gallon. If they do get a shock from the water conditions it will be better than trying to get them through the cycling of the 10gallon tank. Your moving them to BETTER conditions in your 50 gallon, it would be different if you were moving them from excellent conditions to bad conditions.

Hope they survive the transition!

Cheers! Rach

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QUESTION: Thanks for the help! I thought it would be best to move them too. Do you think I should move the 5 adults as well? They seem to be acting ok. Although it looks like one may have ich. I am guessing from the horrible water conditions. They were in the 50 gal at one point but my Angel fish kept trying to eat them! Larger tanks are so much easier to maintain.

Answer
HiYa!

You can move the adults or you can leave them in the 10 gallon to cycle it, if they appear to be ok in there now. Remember you will have to have some fish in the 10gallon to continue the cycle going.

Also remember with ICK that it is the tank that gets ICK, not the fish, so turn the temp of your 10gallon up and add some salt to speed up the life cycle of the ICK. (dosage for salt is 1tsp per 10 gallons, so 1 tsp).

Cheers! Rach