Inroducing the fishless cycling....

[pegleg]

Thanks Jo,I thought that in this day and age there would have to be some sort of short cut to maturing a tank.
Had it planted over a week now,water parameters are,PH 7.5,AMMONIA 0,
NITRITE 0.8 mg/ltr,NITRATE 20 mg/ltr.

No signs of any algae bloom as yet!

[hullhunter]

ive kept tropical and cichlids and i never bothered with all that crap i put all my fish in my tank the same day i set them up and ive never lost a fish in 2 years

[Esfa]

Originally Posted by hullhunter

ive kept tropical and cichlids and i never bothered with all that crap i put all my fish in my tank the same day i set them up and ive never lost a fish in 2 years

Not lost them, just tortured them.

[Trillian]

Originally Posted by hullhunter

ive kept tropical and cichlids and i never bothered with all that crap i put all my fish in my tank the same day i set them up and ive never lost a fish in 2 years

Not a single casualty? I find that hard to believe...

Originally Posted by Esfa

Not lost them, just tortured them

Agreed.

[hullhunter]

once you have had your bloom and your filter is established its easy to keep your water a good quality so there is no reason for you to be loseing fish. so if you are than there is something wrong with your water. oh and why would i come on here and bullshit i dont know any of you so i dont have anything to prove and i was refering to looseing fish through poor water quality!!

[Trillian]

Originally Posted by hullhunter

i was refering to looseing fish through poor water quality!!

So when you just chucked all your fish in at once, did you test the water and do daily water changes to counteract the toxic effects of ammonia and/or nitrite?

[ianb]

[simonb-uk]

u dont need to cycle ur tanks now as u can mature a tank in a day...buy the bacteria u need already formed from any go aquarium shop... i got mine from a shop on the a127 cost me £5 to do a 150l tank

[Trillian]

Originally Posted by simonb-uk

u dont need to cycle ur tanks now as u can mature a tank in a day...buy the bacteria u need already formed from any go aquarium shop... i got mine from a shop on the a127 cost me £5 to do a 150l tank

Doesn't work. The only one of those cycling products that does is Bio-Spira which is a source of refrigerated live bacteria but is only available in the USA. The stuff you describe is about as effective as weeing in the tank.

[simonb-uk]

well it worked for my tank never had any problems and stocked the tank straight away