cycling with feeder goldfish

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dodgefreak8

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How many feeders would it take to cycle my 180 so that it would be comparable to my fishload now. I have:
1-9" silver aro
1-6" 4line pictus cat
1-3" gold nugget pleco
1 12" fw moray eel.

I plan to add biospira first but I don't want my fish to go through any kind of ammonia or nitrite spike at all this time. Also I will be adding 1 cycled emporer 400 to the tank when I move the fish and I will probably move them over to the new tank slowly.. suggestions please?
 
try maybe ten or more. But in reality if you useing a filter that is already colonized. You should be alright just by adding one fish at a time like once a week or every other week. Also try useing half the watter in your other tank to help jumpstart the bioload.


When i set my 150 up i took all filters off my 65 and used all the watter in my 65 for my 150. And never had a problem
 
DO NOT CYCLE WITH FEEDERS. They are usually very unhealthy fish and will end up introducing all kinds of diseases that will effect your fish. This is mention in basically every text talking about cycling and beginning fish keeping.
 
he could use rosey reds for the cycle not nessecerly gold fish.
 
dodgefreak8 said:
How many feeders would it take to cycle my 180 so that it would be comparable to my fishload now. I have:
1-9" silver aro
1-6" 4line pictus cat
1-3" gold nugget pleco
1 12" fw moray eel.

I plan to add biospira first but I don't want my fish to go through any kind of ammonia or nitrite spike at all this time. Also I will be adding 1 cycled emporer 400 to the tank when I move the fish and I will probably move them over to the new tank slowly.. suggestions please?
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Where are you? If you got bait shops that sell chubs or cutlips you can cycle with those and slowly raise the heat. They make good feeders Because niether they nor thier parasites live long at 72degrees+, Over many years I have had very few probs with parasites. Woodshrimp and singapore shrimp will cure the freeswimming stage of ich, They won't work in most tanks cause they are munchies. A 55 I had got a bad case of flukes once and I dumpin 20 sailfin mollies a week x3, at the end I had no flukes, no mollies, and really fat red bellies.
 
You can buy a jar of pure amonia (powdered) from aquatic ecosystems (aquaticeco.com). Put enough in to raise your amonia level to 5ppm, wait until the water reads 0 Then raise it again and repeat. Once your filter brings it to 0 in a 24 hour period its ready to ad all your fish at once. If your filter cant go from 5 ppm to 0 in 24 hours its probably not strong enough for your fishload. My guess on the feeder goldfish would be over 1000 to equal all of your fish.
 
1000 feeder goldfish :omg:
I thought goldfish were the next highest ammonia producer to predators. I think I might just do the biospira thing again and add my already cycled emporer 400. or I might try the store bought ammonia but it might take longer to cycle because as I said out of my 4 filters only one of my emp's is cycled. thanks for the replys
 
I always keep a sponge filter in a tank in the event I buy a new tank. I use half the water from another tank and place one or more previously used spone filters in the tank. Instant biofilter.
 
You could try to just get some inexpensive fancy goldfish that you could then take out and give back to the store
 
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