#tank cycle

[chewybitart]

Almost theeeere.... But also, snails 🐌

Can anyone ID these guys? I've found 3 so far

[smittyaquatics]

Cycling Aquariums

When we are talking about cycling an aquarium, we are talking about the nitrogen cycle.  The nitrogen cycle is essential to every living thing, it’s part of what takes our toxic ammonia laden waste and turns it into harmless nitrogen.  If you’ve ever changed a cat box or two, you will be familiar with ammonia.  Especially if you went away for a week and had to take care of the nasty aftermath. …

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[petsofcloudclipper]

Came home from the weekend to find all 3 flying foxes dead.. being that I found the largest 2 halfway eaten and every other fish is fine, I'm assuming the bichirs got hungry in the 1 whole day I was gone and learned how to hunt fish that don't fit in their mouths :/

So this evening has consisted of doing a water change and dosing my tank to try and take it down from the 0.5 ppm ammonia the large decaying fish caused. At least all other params are where they normally fall....

[500daysofscales]

day #1, cycling my axolotl tank.

I thought i would record my entire cycling experience as I'm going along.. i’m hoping someone out there will find this useful (let’s hope it goes to plan!) or can point me in the right direction if it starts going wrong. I'm doing a fishless cycle

EQUIPMENT: tank, freshwater liquid testing kit, 35% ammonia, exo terra aquatize dechlorinator & exo terra cascade filter

DAY 1: fully cleaned the tank with hot water and no cleaning products. added an aquarium safe sand. added décor from previous tank. added water that had been dechlorinated. i used an ammonia calculator online which calculated the dimensions of my tank and it gave me an amount of ammonia to add (0.24ml) which i dropped into the tank, then took a reading. the first ammonia reading was super dark - 8ppm, which is too much to kickstart the process, so i did 20% water change and it dropped to 5ppm - 6ppm. hoping i’m on the right track with this

[dailyfishtips]

You can instantly cycle new tanks just by adding filter media from established filters. If you have hang-on-back filters, put extra filter media (like this stuff) into them. After about two weeks of being in with your established filter, the extra media can be used to 'seed' new tanks. another alternative is to run extra sponge filters in established tanks - your fish get extra aeration, and you have an instant sponge filter to use in a new tank if need be.

Again, any new filter media needs about two or three weeks in an established tank before it will have enough bacteria to 'seed' new tanks. The filter media also needs to be in a place with high flow - like a sponge filter or inside a HOB. Just chucking a bunch of floss into your tank won't work.

[jayce-rp]

//Axel is going to outgrow his temporary tank at this rate. I don't want to have to buy a new one just for the other to cycle though. He'll be fine. His regular tank is finally showing progress. 0.5 ammonia, 0 nitrites and about 5 nitrates. I have plants now so I haven't seen those move. In the course of a day though ammonia dropped 0.25...and actually more if you consider my tap water has 1 ammonia in it. Hopefully soon now.

[djbizarre]

Tank Parameter Check

0pmm ammonia, 0ppm nitrite, 5ppm nitrate, 7.4 pH

Does this mean my cycle is rebuilding because I think it does and I'm excited.

Also that was fast. 

[rikvelyn]

I has nitrates?

I has cycle?