Fishless Cycling
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I can't use ammonia because of the smell, I have an exotic parrot in the house and since it creates fumes I cannot use it. :/ Are there other options for cycling?
Good read, all the technical data is great. I personally learned years and years ago to cycle in a similar way from my dad. If you already have a tank going and established use waste water or filter rinsings to add bacteria and waste to the cycling tank. Test accordingly and wait for it to normalize naturally. Still do it to this day...or just zyme and $2 worth of comets if I worry to bother.
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Help, I thought I cycled my tank and the plants are thriving. I bought 2 endlers, and they seemed to do fine for a couple hours, I left for an hour after that and came back both fish were dead, I was only gone a few hours. So somewhere between 4 & 5 hours they died. I didn't do an ammonia test but I never had fish in there, so I stuck a Tetra from another over populated tank in there and this time the fish died within 10 minutes. I did another strip test, nitrite was 0, there were some nitrates. I only have an in tank foam air filter.... What am I doing wrong?
