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12-02-2002, 01:00 AM
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| Administrator  Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Sunny Southern California
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|  Fishless Cycling - Everything You Wanted to know... To help beginners on the concept of Fishless Cycling, please refer to this article for more information: http://www.myfishtank.net/articles/fishlesscycle.php everyone else, feel free to add your own comments to this thread. This is a "sticky thread" meaning it'll always stay at the top of this section to help beginners and everyone else! |
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12-02-2002, 06:22 PM
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| Little Fish Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: Los Angeles, California
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| http://www.aquahobby.com/tips/fishless.html that site seems to explain it well. i followed it and it worked fine. ~~Mike |
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12-03-2002, 08:41 AM
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| Large Fish  Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Edmonton
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| Mike, It is a good article however I do not agree 100% with the second last paragraph simply because when fishless cycling, the major advantage is to add all your fish at once. By adding ammonia, you will build a very large bio and if you only add a few fish in at a time, the bio will die off because there is not enough 'food' for all the bacteria. Of course, when I fishless cycle, I add quite a bit of ammonia and after 3 weeks I do a water change. By that time, the ammonia would of completed its cycle and the nitrites would be maxed.
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12-03-2002, 03:13 PM
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| Little Fish  Join Date: Nov 2002
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| why would u want a fishless cycle when you can probably do it with a really cheap fish and really cheap fish food? On a siter called "Henry and Tammy's tropical fish aquariums"  has a little section on a plan for a half hour cycle so u can get ur fish in after half hour WOW amazing eh!
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12-03-2002, 03:47 PM
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| Large Fish Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Edmonton
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| Simply Amazing! Absolutely incredible unfortuately it does not work! Sorry to break your bubble. Btw, I can not find this info on their site. Can you post a link or something? Thanks! The point of fishless is again like I mentioned to be able to add all your fish plus not harm the fish. I would like to emphasise the last part of that sentence 'harm the fish'. Besides, fishless is even cheaper than with fish! A 4L bottle of ammonia that costs me $2 will last me 1000s of tanks. Beat that! 
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12-04-2002, 11:46 AM
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| Little Fish Join Date: Nov 2002
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| http://www.bluemoon.net/~tammy/profiles/ "henry and tammys tropical fish aquariums.  There is the url
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12-04-2002, 01:31 PM
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| Little Fish Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: Los Angeles, California
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| Red i also agree with you on that article i gave on the second last paragraph but i didnt pay attention to it i just dropped all my fish in there. i knew that was kinda stupid but i just ignored it. ~~Mike |
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12-04-2002, 02:03 PM
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| Large Fish Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Edmonton
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| Not a big deal! Happens to the best! Hazzamaya, Thanks for the link but I had already surfed their site. Lots of reading but skimming over the pages, I could not find the half hour cycling bit. Can you remember where it was?
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12-04-2002, 06:46 PM
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| Teenie Weenie Fish  Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: Vancouver, BC
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| I found it, RedTurquoise. As I read it, they lifted part of the media filter from an established tank, and put it into the new tank. "My theory was that I could transplant some bacteria from the cycled 55 to the 30 long and that should cut the cycling time in half. Boy was I wrong, but wrong in a very good way! We bought a second Emperor 280 power filter for the 30 long so I could pirate the bio-wheel from the 55 to jump-start the cycle" (http://aquarium.bluemoon.net/tammy/version2.html ). |
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