[AquaticLife] setting up 10 gallon aquarium - have questions
“Fishless Cycling” is a procedure where we use plain household ammonia (no scents, surfactants, soaps, etc… just plain ammonia available at Ace Hardware and many other places) and add it to the new tank up to 4-5ppm and check it once a day and add more as needed to keep it up to 4-5ppm until the tank is cycling the ammonia through the nitrite and then to nitrate compounds. My A to Z of fish keeping page has a link to a full article on Fishless Cycling with detailed instructions. This process takes a few weeks and up to six weeks but can be much quicker (7-10 days) if the new filter media is seeded with some filter material or gravel borrowed from a healthy tank.
Fishless cycling keeps from having to put the fish through the arduous process which can permanently damage and/or kill them.
Lenny Vasbinder Fish Blog - http://GoldLenny.blogspot.com
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