Well I had water in it for awhile with no fish had a filter going then turned it off for a couple weeks. when you turned the filter off most likely it killed off the BB you had so it started the cycling process over again, if you have other established filter media I would use that to seed the tank, it will help speed the process up and get your tank stable alot faster.
I went fishing caught some bait, bait came home which included 1gal of the native stream water, 2 fish died and 3 snails died, now there are two left.
what kind of fish did you put in it ?
Since adding the fish it has been about 3 weeks.
They eat everything I put in right away, never any wasted food, I feed them crawlers and rinse the dirt off the worms before I feed them there is a bit of dirt in the tank from the worms, it is about the size of two quarters stacked up.
It is a 10 gallon with two hang on the back filters, one is for 5-10gal the other is for 10-20gal.
