I will probably wait to add fish until the water is clear as you would struggle to see them was going to start with a few small hardy fish. It is a 52 litre tank.
I assume there is no harm in starting the safe start without fish?
I didn't want to add ammonia (was going to use fish food) while the reading was so high and now the level has dropped right down I don't know if I should bring it back up or not or if to add a couple of hardy fish and revert back to the method I know
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Thank you for the reply. Well I was intending to do a fishless cycle using a bacterial boost to speed up the process (inpatient children). But am not sure as I've only done fish in before. Wanted to try and get the tank in as good a balance as possible before starting off with fish. Now am...
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I set up my new tank a week ago and just added water conditioner and after 2/3 days I had a bacterial bloom which still hasn't cleared.
I tested the water on day 4 and it was showing high ammonia (no source) so have let it run on the ammonia has dropped right off but I still have the bloom...