fishless cycle

[Mr.V]

Many methods. You could add a market shrimp, or pure ammonia. If you do pure ammonia, you want to bring the tank to 4ppm ammonia.

by shrimp do you mean like ghost shrimp or like commercial cooking shrimp?

 

[USMC Sniper]

by shrimp do you mean like ghost shrimp or like commercial cooking shrimp?

It would be the cooking shrimp, primarily because of the size. The ammonia comes from the decomposition of the shrimp, just like if you had something in your tank die and it was left in there to rot.

 

[soulFish]

Here's a question, what If I used water and some substrate from an established tank to help fill a new tank, would this jump start the cycle?

Although the filters would be new.

 

[ahfu25]

I used pure ammonia to bring reading up to 4ppm then I added some bio-spira to give it a running start and my 75 was cycled a lil over a week.

 

[DJ_PEE_ZEE]

thats cruel.

 

[DJ_PEE_ZEE]

If ya got a bait and tackle shop near by, get like three crawdads. They will cycle the tank quick.

That's Cruel. I love my crayfish and they will die without a cycled tank.

Crayfish are great to watch and you should look at setting up a tank for a cray. Its good to get them when they are small so you can watch them grow and change colour with each moult.