Cycling With Ammonia Harm Plants?

Amunet

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Howdy all! I just got ahold of some ammonia to cycle my 10 gallon tank. I would like to add in little shoots from my marble queen radican to the tank, but I'm not sure if I should just wait til the tank is done cycling or not.
If I decided to put them in now, would the ammonia harm the plants? Would it affect the liquid plant food any? Should I just wait til the tank is done cycling?
 
Exactly the opposite. Plants will use the Ammonia and this will mean your filter takes longer to accumulate the bacteria.

There is an argument for heavily planting and then stocking straight away, letting the plants take away most of the ammonia and the filter slowly building up, but don't know if it works or not.

If you are thinking of going this route, wait for someone more experienced to answer this part.
 
There's one big problem with adding ammonia to a tank with plants and that is algae. This is because light + ammonia = algae. You need to fishless cycle in the dark which isn't very friendly to the plants. Fishless cycle first in the dark and then add plants and fish. Preferably add plants first and then slowly stock with fish.

James
 
Alrighty... I'll wait then, and thanks for the info about the light and algae! I would never have known that and wondered why my tank was being invaded by algae lol.

I'm only going to be adding in 2 bettas (divided of course).... so how long after I plant should I add in the fish?
 

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