Fish-in Cycling Diary.

[Joshwainwright]

I'm enjoying doing it without any mature filter media.

 

[waterdrop]

some would advise to do a 50 - 70% water change every time

Yes, I'm one of those! ...not just blindly every time but when you are testing and finding .50 or 1.0 for these its warranted!

 

[Joshwainwright]

Went a day without a change!!!

 

[Hiya70310]

Went a day without a change!!!

It's okay, I went a day without doing my water changes...it's called life. It isn't so good for the fish just do a big water change and test your water. We won't make it a habit and we will get through our fish in cycle

 

[rabbut]

Water changing daily is better than leaving them having their gill burned off by Ammonia, and oxygen removed from their blood via Nitrite though... Remember that the damage these two chemicals cause is irreversible and will shorten the life of your fish While you can get away with running the levels of Ammonia and Nitrite higher than we recommend on here (pH being correct to balance Ammonia to Ammonium in the fishes favor of course), but it won't do them any good

I assume you going a day without a water change Josh means that Ammonia and Nitrite read zero If so, great news, looks like it was a reasonably fast cycle assuming they are still zero today

All the best
Rabbut

 

[Joshwainwright]

I bought a new dechlorinator today, or at least I think I have, its King British safe water, but it says nothing about chlorine...

 

[rabbut]

King British Water Safe does deal with Chlorine and Chloramine as far as I'm aware

 

[Joshwainwright]

Ok, thanks.

 

[Hiya70310]

So is the King Britian any good??? I wonder if any one brand of dechlorinator is better than another. They all do the samething right? What brand are you switching from? Are you familiar with the Tetra brand AquaSafe? and if you are, do you know what BioExtract is and what it does?

 

[Joshwainwright]

I'm just switching from King British Safeguard to KB water safe.

Next time I buy it though I think I'm going to get a different brand as King British works out at £4 for 50ml!

 

[rabbut]

Most de-chlorinators do the same thing. When I used to use it, I used API water conditioner

 

[Joshwainwright]

I'm going to use that next time I run out, its a little cheaper...

 

[Hiya70310]

Luck for you guys I either use tetra or nothing.