How long would you cycle a new tank? My new bichir setup runs almost 2 weeks now. I filled it with 10% water from my old bichir setup and added some snails at day one. The snails still do fine. One hour ago i added 12 neon tetra as test fish. I want finally add my bichirs! ha ha so tell me, when would be right?
How long cycle?
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Hello; Perhaps give the neons a few days to be sure all is still well. I tend to add fish to a new tank a few at a time in order to give the bb population to stabalize. If you have a cycled/established tank handy, some of the filter material or other hard surfaces can be puty into the new tank. There seems to be a general feeling that there are more bb on hard surface than in the water. I like to toss plants from an old tank as well as snails.
I cycle for about 3 weeks, then add 1-5 test fish. 2-3 weeks later I begin adding the intended stock slowly.
Add some media from your other tanks, filter socks, bio balls, cartridge filter, whatever you use, put right into the other, will speed up cycling to almost virtually none if you add the Polys slowly to build up the bb
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Unless I'm misreading your original post, I think you don't understand how cycling works. You need to have a supply of ammonia for the beneficial bacteria. Cycling doesn't just mean letting clean water turn over and over in an empty tank. You know when your tank is finished cycling by doing water tests. When ammonia and nitrite are 0 and nitrates start climbing, the tank is cycled.