Just curious if there is anyone out there that has experience with cycling a tank with decaying fish food. Just wanted to know how it went and what are the pro and cons to doing a cycle this way.
Cycling with Fish Food
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I cycled this tank with fish food, I didnt have any issues with it. I cycled my last tank with a raw shrimp, worked well also. Its a pro over an fish in cycle, but no pros or cons over liquid ammonia cycling IMO.
My friend cycled a small pond using only fish food, my only advice is make sure the water is warm or you'll get nowhere very slowly
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Yeah I actually put some flakes and some brine shrimp. It seems to be going well. How long did it take for the tank to cycle?
Nice! I'll check this out.
Yeah I'll keep a eye on it. Right now my ammonia is at around 1-2ppm and the nitrite is now going up. Currently at 1 ppm. So seems to be going well.
I would think using pure ammonia would be a much cleaner way to cycle a tank rather than with fish food which can rot and mold. Granted, I have never cycled using the fish food method, I've always just seeded new tanks with mature media from one of my other tanks. I'm just curious about how much of a mess the fish food or rotting prawn method makes in your tank.
I've used dry food with lots of success. The reason I liked it is because I knew how much food I was putting in (and planning on putting in) every day, so when the fish arrived, I knew exactly how much was my starting point.
Ammonia's also quite nice for it's ease, but in those days I didn't have the metrics to convert ammonia to food, so it was really a guess as to how much ammonia equaled the food needs of my fish.
In later times, I used ammonia, not food, because I had the information to equate food and ammonia. Either one works, and each has some good points.
Ammonia's also quite nice for it's ease, but in those days I didn't have the metrics to convert ammonia to food, so it was really a guess as to how much ammonia equaled the food needs of my fish.
In later times, I used ammonia, not food, because I had the information to equate food and ammonia. Either one works, and each has some good points.