ellejay
Fish Crazy
It is day 36 and my tank is finally cycled, hooray! First time cycling and no major dramas so I'm quite pleased with myself.
I will be stocking my tank with sparkling gouramis, pygmy corys and cherry shrimp (following advice on another thread re tank size/water parameters etc). However, I can't stock my tank until a week on Wednesday, as I'll be ordering my fish online and that's the next possible day I can be in to receive them. I know normally I'd need to add 1/3 of the ammonia dose as a snack for the bacteria every 3 days to maintain the cycle, but I'd like to have plants in and ready for the fish coming, and was wondering how this would affect things. Would I still need to add the snack/maintenance doses of ammonia? Would I need to add bigger doses to counteract what the plants will absorb? Am I just overthinking this??
Plants - still deciding but likely water sprite, java moss (wrapped around wood), moss balls, anubias, and other easy types. Open to adding ferts but my lights are just LED strips so I'm unlikely to go high maintenance.
I will be stocking my tank with sparkling gouramis, pygmy corys and cherry shrimp (following advice on another thread re tank size/water parameters etc). However, I can't stock my tank until a week on Wednesday, as I'll be ordering my fish online and that's the next possible day I can be in to receive them. I know normally I'd need to add 1/3 of the ammonia dose as a snack for the bacteria every 3 days to maintain the cycle, but I'd like to have plants in and ready for the fish coming, and was wondering how this would affect things. Would I still need to add the snack/maintenance doses of ammonia? Would I need to add bigger doses to counteract what the plants will absorb? Am I just overthinking this??
Plants - still deciding but likely water sprite, java moss (wrapped around wood), moss balls, anubias, and other easy types. Open to adding ferts but my lights are just LED strips so I'm unlikely to go high maintenance.