Cycling a 75gl..for how long?
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Stability is the best stuff out there. Put my fish in as soon as I filled the tank. Stopped dosing on the 7th day. First wc on the 14th day. And regular maintenance ever since then.
Interesting.
I got home from work today and checked all my levels (api liquid test kit) and I'm at 3-4ppm ammonia, nitrites off the charts (or right at the top of the chart, who knows?) and nitrates at 5ppm.
So with this in mind, would it be safe to get some Prime and Stability and move the fish over? Or am I better off just waiting for this cycle to finish?
I got home from work today and checked all my levels (api liquid test kit) and I'm at 3-4ppm ammonia, nitrites off the charts (or right at the top of the chart, who knows?) and nitrates at 5ppm.
So with this in mind, would it be safe to get some Prime and Stability and move the fish over? Or am I better off just waiting for this cycle to finish?
Nice job hijacking the thread. 
Don't move your fish.
Skip all the additives and just finish fishless cycling.
Sounds like you are almost there.
Don't move your fish.
Skip all the additives and just finish fishless cycling.
Sounds like you are almost there.
I just came back from Orlando Florida today, was there for nine days and got some things that are kind of hard to find here in PR and at very reasonable prices 
, I also saw something that was very hard to watch...a mega store that sell fish (Parrots to be specific..) are in very small tanks and most of them had sores on their nostrils an Ick...I knew this by some web friends, but never expected to watch that was true...poor little fishies..
, I also saw something that was very hard to watch...a mega store that sell fish (Parrots to be specific..) are in very small tanks and most of them had sores on their nostrils an Ick...I knew this by some web friends, but never expected to watch that was true...poor little fishies..CA-Delta;4491918; said:Nice job hijacking the thread.
Don't move your fish.
Skip all the additives and just finish fishless cycling.
Sounds like you are almost there.
Yeah....I'm generally pretty bad about hijacking
I don't intend to...it just happens
Anyways yeah I'll probably just continue along like I'm doing. I'm continuing to add the MicroBacter but thats about it.
Once my ammonia drops to zero, do I need to redose the tank and make sure it'll drop to zero again in 8-12 hours?
Sorry Coco:/
Sounds like a damn shame about those LFS
WHY IS IT SO HARD TO FIND A FLOWER HORN IN THIS ISLAND?? 
Sorry Coco:/
Sounds like a damn shame about those LFS[/QUOTE]
Sorry Coco:/
Sounds like a damn shame about those LFS[/QUOTE]
this is my first post so please be gentle ! i am setting up a 71 gal tank for ranchus will a rena xp4 be up to the job ? or should i be looking at something else ?
I'm pretty new too, but from what I've learned so far, I think you'd be fine. I have an xp3 on my 65, hoping it works out once I get the fish in, we'll see.
Update to my stupid situation though...I think replacing the filter on my 20 (moved up from a top-fin 20 power filter to a magnum250 HOT) sent my tank into a cycle, so now both my tanks are cycling and the ammonia levels in my 65 are actually lower and nitrates are higher than they are in the 20. At this point I'm tempted to move my fish over the 65, except I have ich in the 20...but I guess they'll either sit through ich in the 20 or sit through ich in the 65 with better parameters and more space...?
Update to my stupid situation though...I think replacing the filter on my 20 (moved up from a top-fin 20 power filter to a magnum250 HOT) sent my tank into a cycle, so now both my tanks are cycling and the ammonia levels in my 65 are actually lower and nitrates are higher than they are in the 20. At this point I'm tempted to move my fish over the 65, except I have ich in the 20...but I guess they'll either sit through ich in the 20 or sit through ich in the 65 with better parameters and more space...?
this is what I did when I had to clean out my filter. I took some media from my other filter and put it in with the new filter media so that I would already have a colony. theoretically it works and my ammonia in the tank is always 0 so I guess it does work. good luck growing your bacteria
