A few danios overflowed into my sump. Will that help my 90g tank cycling? By a few I mean like 4 or 5.
dead fish in a cycling tank
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Dead fish note the best idea, to many other things coming out of them, overloads your good bacteria. If you want to rush it a little use the bacteria in a bottle.
How long had the tank been cycling when you put the fish in ?
Did just the fish in the sump die?
How long before they died?
Questions... questions... questions.
Just don't want you to have latent problems.
How long had the tank been cycling when you put the fish in ?
Did just the fish in the sump die?
How long before they died?
Questions... questions... questions.
Just don't want you to have latent problems.
It had been running about 4 days when I put the fish in. They died because they overflowed and say on a drop plate.. Well.. I guess they're dead. Its not easy to look in my bio towers without taking the whole sump out of the stand. I have a big syndontis in the tank now with a few danios and guppies that are left.
that also happened to me when i was cycling my tank.. those feeder fish were big but they still managed to jump and die on the dip tray. i usually check everyday.. i did not have any outbreak (disease), maybe because of the UV sterilizer but them again... it went well and it's almost done cycling. Bio-Spira has been well recomended by a lot of fish keepers. 
ok. Now along with the few small fish I have left in the tank I have a 8"+ syndontis. I have checked every day for 4 days. everything is still at 0. Does that mean its cycled?
I think it takes a couple of weeks but since your ammonia and nitrites are undetectable, that's encouraging.
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Pitchar
What's "everything"? A cycled tank should register no ammonia, no nitrites, and should show the presence of nitrates. A tank can be cycled for a small bioload, but not necessarily for what you're planning to add. The best way is a fishless cycle using pure ammonia. Do a Google search for "fishless cycle."
cycling takes a long process.. adding amonia.. i haven't tried it yet. you're amonia and nitrite will read zero for a few days. them sometimes your tank becomes cloudy all of a sudden. i usually wait until the cloudiness goes off before testing the water again. you most probably will get a value for amonia and nitrite. i would do a water test every other day. daily test will just stress you. when your amonia is up i would just let it go for a week without testing it. them check... once your amonia and nitrite is zero that's the only time i check my nitrates. it's useless to test for nitrates if both amonia and nitrites have value because you can't get any fish yet in their. just saving some test kits.