help midway through fishless cycle emergency!!!

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joedodge

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hello all so im fishless cycling my new 58 gallon i just got a good nitrite reading so ive cut back to the 3 drops of amonia per 10 gallons. but i was on aquabid.com hunting for the fish i am wanting in it and lol accidently hit the buy it now so i have to purchase them what should i do
 
Have you other tanks that you can dump waste water in for now, then water change the bad water out but use it to kick start the filter?

Depending on the size you can use used media as well to speed up the process
 
Or call them to intercept the order.
 
no i dont have any of my other tanks setup at the moment the only thing i was thinking is go buy a 20 gallong long and go to my lfs and see if i could buy one of his seasond sponge filters out of a tank and do that till the tank is cycled
 
ok went to my lfs and got a #4 sponge filter out of one of his tanks hopefully this will work but should i stop adding ammonia and just let the bacteria spread from the sponge filter to my ac110
 
Just let the sponge do its work. But you do have to add the fish right after putting in the filter or it won't work.
 
the other thing is you dont have to pay right, if u didnt enter ur credit card number you should be go.. if he doesnt have a CC he cant charge you. if he does then i guess you have to buy it
 
awsome thanks so much everyone for your help sorry for freaking out i put the sponge in and since ive been dosing ammonia i think theres plenty for the bacteria to do over night tomm after work il go get some tetras
 
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