Recent content by iadubber

No you won't skip the nitrite phase. You still have to wait for ammonia and nitrite to spike and come down to 0. It might just knock a week off if you indeed have very mature media you are using.

For freshwater if you want colorful and large go with Rainbowfish or make an all cichlid tank.

the fastest way to fishless cycle is go to your LFS and get as much mature bio media, filters, sponges, floss, gravel that you can and put them in your filter and tank. I haven't yet seen a claim that TSS or anything like it helps the cycle at all. I tried TSS in my tank and had no results in...