Cecil:

I'm of the same school of thought, throw some fish in there to get the process going. To save some BG, I'd toss a bunch of FHM in there, it sounds like they are really easy (and cheap) for you to get.

The only thing that I'm unsure of is on whether you should drain, hose off, drain again and refill the RAS. I don't know how long the surficant will take to break down that's in the system now.

If you did drain it, would it be better to refill it from the front pond rather than using well water? I know it would be more difficult to do that, but it might help jump start the system.

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