Keeping The Cycle Going

[love_fish]

Hello, I'm wondering what I can do to keep my cycle going in my 10 gallon. I'm buying new fish tomorrow, and I'm transferring all my 10 gallon fish into the 29 gallon as well. What can i keep in the 10 gallon, that wont eat fry so i can keep the cycle going? Or is there nothing I can do. I have 4, 1 week old fry in there now, but I doubt they'll produce enought waste to keep the cycle going.

Help anyone?

 

[prankster705]

Maybe a small bristlenose pleco and put it in the 29 gal when he grows up.

PS: Update your signature.

 

[love_fish]

Maybe a small bristlenose pleco and put it in the 29 gal when he grows up.

PS: Update your signature.

Thanks, my LFS has Plecs I think. What do I feed it?

What do you mean update it? It's up to where it is at the very moment


Oh, what is another alternative to keep the cycle going. I could always stock it wih something, then when I have to raise babies in it, I can take them out and put them in the 29 gallon. Sound ok?

 

[prankster705]

You can feed it algea waffers. And make sure you get a small kind of pleco as comon plecos grow huge. Ups sorry about the sig thing you said tomorow and I misread that you already got them, sorry.

 

[love_fish]

You can feed it algea waffers. And make sure you get a small kind of pleco as comon plecos grow huge. Ups sorry about the sig thing you said tomorow and I misread that you already got them, sorry.

NP. What else could I try besides a pleco to keep the cycle going?

 

[prankster705]

Maybe you could try some ottos, feed them algea waffers. Or you could try a small banjo catfish and rehome it to the 29 gallon when it grows, feed it algea waffers.

 

[love_fish]

Hmm, Ill give the ottos a shot.

Thanks a lot.

 

[Matty]

or, to keep the bacteria levels in your tank constant (and maybe increase them), add a few drops of ammonia to your aquarium every day.

 

[love_fish]

Yea, I do have a bottle of ammonia, I could try that. But I kinda think that'd be a little bit of a hastle. Although, I'm going to be stocking guppys and platys and they have babys a lot. What should I do now though, becasue I only have four fry, about 1 week, 2 days old in a breeding net, and they cant cycle the tank on their own. What should I do now then?

 

[Mr.September15]

Interesting...

 

[love_fish]

Interesting...

lol, nothing else to say arrowhead

 

[Mr.September15]

Interesting...

lol, nothing else to say arrowhead

Yeah I just dont know anything about this...

-Arrowhead

 

[Inchworm]

Hi love_fish

Do I have this right; you are going to use the tank to raise fry in.

If that's the case, it will need no more beneficial bacteria, at any given time, that what it takes to process their waste products and convert them to harmless nitrate. Therefore, you don't have to add any bigger fish to keep it cycled. When more fry come along, the beneficial bacteria will rapidly reproduce to accommodate them since they increase and decrease with the amount of food they have.

Whatever you do, don't add any ammonia or plecos to your tank while the fry are in it. You should, however, do lots of water changes to keep the tank fresh and to remove uneaten food which could breed harmful bacteria on it.

 

[love_fish]

Hi love_fish

Do I have this right; you are going to use the tank to raise fry in.

If that's the case, it will need no more beneficial bacteria, at any given time, that what it takes to process their waste products and convert them to harmless nitrate. Therefore, you don't have to add any bigger fish to keep it cycled. When more fry come along, the beneficial bacteria will rapidly reproduce to accommodate them since they increase and decrease with the amount of food they have.

Whatever you do, don't add any ammonia or plecos to your tank while the fry are in it. You should, however, do lots of water changes to keep the tank fresh and to remove uneaten food which could breed harmful bacteria on it.

Problem is, it's going to be empty when there's not fry to raise in it. So what should I do during that time? Add some ammonia to keep it cycled?