Cycling my new tank

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It says add 5ml for every 10gal per water change, so I thought it was a given to do some water changes during the process and add bb to correspond with the amount of water I replace.
 
jaws7777 said:
You really should do some research on any product your going to use...your not doing a traditional fish in cycle....your using a bb in a bottle.

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Actually if you look into their dosing instructions they tell you to do water changes when your nitrite reading is higher than .5 ppm, which is bound to happen during the cycle at one point
 
bloodlucky said:
Just finished up setting my freshwater 40 gal, and I'm trying to cycle it as fast and efficiently as I can. I'll be buying Tetra SafeStart and I was recommended by a few people on here to buy some starter fish. The problem is I'm planning on buying only one blood parrot to live its entire life in the tank by himself, so if I get any minnows or danios he'll just shred them overtime. Feeder minnows I don't mind if he chomps on them, but the risk of disease transmission is too high for me to allow. Danios shouldn't really be sharing the same conditions as the required ones of the blood parrot, and I'd hate to stand and watch tropical fish become food to tropical fish. So I'm thinking about cycling fishlessly.

They say using all the external factors like the SafeStart, the tank should be ready in a week if I add an ammonia source to the tank during it. I'm unfamiliar with cycling fishlessly, though, and I don't really know how much fish food I should be adding each day. I have an ammonia testing kit though so I can just sort of do trial and error throughout the days. Just any advice or input on my plan would really help. Thanks
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I use stress coat and aquarium salt. I never cycle the tank. I never had a loss. Along with some nox-Ich. Everything is fine still. Same with when i do water change. Im sure people have different methods but just telling you mine :)

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bloodlucky said:
Actually if you look into their dosing instructions they tell you to do water changes when your nitrite reading is higher than .5 ppm, which is bound to happen during the cycle at one point
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Again your not doing a traditional cycle. I never registered nitrite when I used used safestart

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Don't mean to be a sourpuss but if you'd listened to Jaws from the start you'd be fine, I wouldnt start messing about with more dosages etc, just do your best to clean the filter impeller of sand; and go forward.

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convict360 said:
Don't mean to be a sourpuss but if you'd listened to Jaws from the start you'd be fine, I wouldnt start messing about with more dosages etc, just do your best to clean the filter impeller of sand; and go forward.

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I didn't do any water changes yet man I did everything jaws told me to do so far I just had questions


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