If you have ever successfully cycled a tank with fish before show me some pictures and let me know how you did it and if your fish are alive and healthy. If you oppose it the let me know what you think. Thanks
If you have ever cycled a tank with fish successfully
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four elements to instantly cycle a tank.
Filter media from established tank both squeezed and floated in the water.
Seachem Stability.
Seachem Prime.
Water.
I have done many tanks with this method. Last one was my 300g pond. I had fish in within 30 minutes of filling it up and have not lost a fish yet and it has been up for almost 2 months.
The main way that I lose fish is through predation.
Filter media from established tank both squeezed and floated in the water.
Seachem Stability.
Seachem Prime.
Water.
I have done many tanks with this method. Last one was my 300g pond. I had fish in within 30 minutes of filling it up and have not lost a fish yet and it has been up for almost 2 months.
The main way that I lose fish is through predation.
Nice. My dad has that same problem lol. I guess the main reason I'm posting this is because I'm catching some flak from certain hippies for cycling my aquarium with fish. Just want to know if I'm the only one. Also I didn't have access to any established media at that time and I've used those chemicals before with no luck and I'm capable of following simple instructions so I'm sure I used them right.
I am a chef and I find that fish keeping is very much like creating a recipe. A true chef will come up with their own recipes and usually make them up as they go along.
Same thing with fish keeping.
The only issues I have had with tanks is when pieces of equipment crap out. I had a real *****ing 180g sw that was really beginning to develope nice and had an issue with the pump in the sump. Came back 4 days later to find a not so nice milky colored tank of death.
Other times have had fish who decided to smash heaters, destroy filter tubes etc...
So far as the hippies who are hassling you tell them to pretend they have a tuba and blow. Or ask them if they are your lawyer, when they say no. Tell them to get off your case.
I will look through my photobucket to see if I can find the pics of a 180g that I did this way.
Same thing with fish keeping.
The only issues I have had with tanks is when pieces of equipment crap out. I had a real *****ing 180g sw that was really beginning to develope nice and had an issue with the pump in the sump. Came back 4 days later to find a not so nice milky colored tank of death.
Other times have had fish who decided to smash heaters, destroy filter tubes etc...
So far as the hippies who are hassling you tell them to pretend they have a tuba and blow. Or ask them if they are your lawyer, when they say no. Tell them to get off your case.
I will look through my photobucket to see if I can find the pics of a 180g that I did this way.
Ok here is a 8 ft 300g that I did this process on
Filling the tank, the cloudy part is from suspended solids that have filled the tank from the filter bags and such. This usually clears up within a day or so.
Fish in the tank within the next hour.
Some of the wood that went into the tank. For me the most important part is to make sure I have some substrate and various other things for bacteria to grab onto to keep alive.
This is the same tank a few days later. I do straight 50% water changes 1/day for the first week after I bang the tank together. Then at the end of the first week I do a filter clean. I also recommend over filtering the tank so that your filters can pull out as much of the gunk that is suspended. A good temp filter to use this for mechanical filtration are the AC hang on back. Throw 3 110 and let em rip and your tank will go clear very fast.
Filling the tank, the cloudy part is from suspended solids that have filled the tank from the filter bags and such. This usually clears up within a day or so.
Fish in the tank within the next hour.
Some of the wood that went into the tank. For me the most important part is to make sure I have some substrate and various other things for bacteria to grab onto to keep alive.
This is the same tank a few days later. I do straight 50% water changes 1/day for the first week after I bang the tank together. Then at the end of the first week I do a filter clean. I also recommend over filtering the tank so that your filters can pull out as much of the gunk that is suspended. A good temp filter to use this for mechanical filtration are the AC hang on back. Throw 3 110 and let em rip and your tank will go clear very fast.
i just slowly add fish (about 1 a week) and keep up with my weekly 50% w/c's.
Hope that helps.. im more on the patient side though. just don't overfeed and you'll be okay
Hope that helps.. im more on the patient side though. just don't overfeed and you'll be okay
The key to doing this is very much the same to heating up a Creme Soup faster than recommended. Keeping a watchful eye.
There for sure will be people who have issue with how I do things. But MEH to them. The proof is in the pudding and I am pretty sure they might very well do things that I disagree with. Yet, my tanks are my tanks as are theirs. So long as a person is not purposefully being negligent in the care of their fish, so be it. Be diverse and creative in how you keep your fish.
I do a lot of fish trading and selling as for me it is a business of sorts. I hope to be able to start to put my plans for my fish company into works soon as we just sold a property which will give me the needed capital to start up.
There for sure will be people who have issue with how I do things. But MEH to them. The proof is in the pudding and I am pretty sure they might very well do things that I disagree with. Yet, my tanks are my tanks as are theirs. So long as a person is not purposefully being negligent in the care of their fish, so be it. Be diverse and creative in how you keep your fish.
I do a lot of fish trading and selling as for me it is a business of sorts. I hope to be able to start to put my plans for my fish company into works soon as we just sold a property which will give me the needed capital to start up.
Awesome. I hope it works out for you. My buddy applied for a government grant to open a pet store and they gave him $80,000. He wanted to call it "pets and ****" but of course that wasn't allowed. I just have my 125 running now I've got 12 cichlids in it. I like to over filter my tanks. I've got two ehiem pro 2 filters on it now. I fell like it's adequate but I'd like to get some new filters for it eventually. But at the same time I want to buy a house when I get out of the navy in 2 yrs and build a 1000 gallon in my living room or something.