Letting a tank sit for a couple months, without either adding small amounts of ammonia, or( for example,) a piece of shrimp meat, to feed beneficial bacteria, or adding sacrificial fish to produce ammonia (that may eventually kill these fish) is not cycling a tank.
Cycling a tank is the process of growing a population of ammonia and nitrite using bacteria to consume the amounts of waste produced by fish metabolism.
Letting a tank sit with filters running , but without some of ammonia, accomplishes nothing.
Cycling a tank is the process of growing a population of ammonia and nitrite using bacteria to consume the amounts of waste produced by fish metabolism.
Letting a tank sit with filters running , but without some of ammonia, accomplishes nothing.
