75/110 Usg Tank Fishless Cycle Log

[Wills]

wow.... your doing really well here mate just keep at it. Once you get all those tanks going just wow! Any ideas of other fish you want to add in?

 

[jjkremp]

wow.... your doing really well here mate just keep at it. Once you get all those tanks going just wow! Any ideas of other fish you want to add in?

well for the extra tanks i was thinking of isolating my headlight tetra and placing him in a school of his own (10) and a school of (10) neons in the 29 gallon the koi and goldfish now have another 100gall i just got today im beginning cycling it tomorrow
and im gettting a 60 gallon hex tank with a breeding pair of bettas and it comes with 9 tiger barbs which i want to seperate from the bettas what do you think about splitting them into the ten gallons

after i stock them all im gonna begin using real plants

any other ideas im leaning to schooling fish for the other 29 and 10 gal what ya think?


oh and that main tank coming nicely heres a link to pics i started stocking it went ahead and put the koi and goldfish in for the afternoon while i cleans their tank walls and gravel vac check out the pics http/viewmorepics.myspace.com/index.cfm?...albumId=1043109

 

[jjkremp]

also i made a dark secluded almost sealed cave for any fry to run to if they make it that far an airstone inside helps slowly circulate the water inside and no other fish can enter as its one point of opening is in the back as a 1" wide but as thin as coin hears a pic
its the lower left side http/c1.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images0...e8e1daa5acc.jpg excuse the mess the pic was taken before the outside glass was cleaned

 

[jjkremp]

day 9 main tank is now stocked the koi and goldfish were in with them just for their tank cleaning now they back in their own. readings at 0 original stocked tank now empty is confusing the levels went up but the fish have been outta it for over 18hrs its between .25 and 1ppm IS THIS NORMAL whats going on?

koi and goldfish tank at zero it likes to bounce so i dont expect that reading for long prolly go back up anywhere around 1ppm by tonight
extra 10g is at 2ppm the other 10g 7ppm again weird did i kill my bacteria by forgetting to add ammonia in two days to that tank?

new 75 just added 2ml to it will check tonight the readings

gonna go buy some cheap whisper 10's at walmart they are 5bucks and for 2-10gallons figure ill get 10 of em and put them in my cycle tanks so that the biological pad in them develops squeezing it in with other filters would be easy to help start other cycles any thoughts on this?

 

[jjkremp]

looks like im going 3-6 days without readings my test tube broke ordered a new one from Houston scientific materials 2 of them and a dropper for 5.48 including shipping 6 days though to wait or maybe 3 anyways on the tanks with fish i will have to watch their behavior for signs of high ammonia