New Tank Step By Step Guide Please?

[RiiCKYOMD]

Could someone breka it brown for me from start to finish with a FISHY cycle not fishless. Eg. Set up tank all the way to enjoy your new auarium

thanks

 

[RiiCKYOMD]

Could you pm me your answers instead of posting here

 

[backtotropical]

I would always recommend fishless cycle. Kinder on the fishes.

Also, why PM? The whole point of the forum is so other people can read posts and bounce info off each other.

 

[CruX]

I would always recommend fishless cycle. Kinder on the fishes.

Also, why PM? The whole point of the forum is so other people can read posts and bounce info off each other.

Got to agree here 100% on both points. Please try a fishless cycle as even if the fish you cycle with survive they will certainly feel the effects of it. Also with it being a discussion forum, you may get the exact same thing PM'd constantly, or you may get some bad advice, if you discuss it on the public forum then everyone is entitled to a view.

 

[RiiCKYOMD]

But on my laptop I was going on I cant go on the itnernet yet cause the cursor internet explorer has viruses but i can still recieve pm's through email

sorry if i offended anyone

 

[backtotropical]

sorry if i offended anyone

Didn't offend me mate. I just thought it was a strange request, thats all.

I'm still going to promote fishless cycling to you though.

 

[RiiCKYOMD]

sorry if i offended anyone

Didn't offend me mate. I just thought it was a strange request, thats all.

I'm still going to promote fishless cycling to you though.

But it takes much longer and costs more

 

[demonmagus]

not really. a better option is find some mature media (there is a list of donors on this site)

if you can't then use danios , I must admit I didn't go fishless but it is more work with fish -

 

[backtotropical]

But it takes much longer and costs more

If your priority is to rush it and spend as little as possible, i'd think twice about keeping fish.

To succeed, is a long (and sometimes very expensive) process.

Fishless cycling is kinder to the fish and IMO that should be every fishkeepers priority.

 

[RiiCKYOMD]

But it takes much longer and costs more

If your priority is to rush it and spend as little as possible, i'd think twice about keeping fish.

To succeed, is a long (and sometimes very expensive) process.

Fishless cycling is kinder to the fish and IMO that should be every fishkeepers priority.

However fishy cycling has been used to for centuries and everyone to themselves

 

[CruX]

But it takes much longer and costs more

If your priority is to rush it and spend as little as possible, i'd think twice about keeping fish.

To succeed, is a long (and sometimes very expensive) process.

Fishless cycling is kinder to the fish and IMO that should be every fishkeepers priority.

However fishy cycling has been used to for centuries and everyone to themselves

Thats a fair comment, however I guess the reasons people cycled with fish way back when was they didn't know how the cycle actually worked just that it did. Now we know that adding ammonia every day does the trick until it becomes cycled does the trick. To add fuel to the fire, yes it has been done like this for centuries but time moves on, afterall slavery was rife for thousands of years, it doesn't make it right though does it?

 

[RiiCKYOMD]

Cinoaring slavery to preparing a torpical fish tank are two extremes. The fishy cycle is a natural process. The fishless cycle can take a lot of time, money, the test kits could mess up and they do cost alot, adding ammonia, if done wrong could add to much.

 

[CruX]

Cinoaring slavery to preparing a torpical fish tank are two extremes. The fishy cycle is a natural process. The fishless cycle can take a lot of time, money, the test kits could mess up and they do cost alot, adding ammonia, if done wrong could add to much.

It's not natural though using a live fish to generate bacteria in the confines of an aquarium. You can speed up the cycle, you should really buy test kits anyway and if you add too much ammonia then surely a water change can rectify this?

As for comparing slavery to the use of a fish to cycle a tank is in a way very extreme contradictions but that wasn't my point, my point was just because people have been doing it for an age doesn't make it the right thing to do. There is however a common denominator between cycling with fish and slavery though, they both involve the abuse of living beings.

 

[RiiCKYOMD]

So people breathe for long periods of time but it is not the right thing to do

 

[backtotropical]

The fishy cycle is a natural process. The fishless cycle can take a lot of time, money, the test kits could mess up and they do cost alot, adding ammonia, if done wrong could add to much.

The fishy cycle is a natural process, but not for fish. In their natural habitat, they don't experience huge ammonia and nitrite spikes as their eco-system is already "cycled" and copes with it. It is not natural for fish to be exposed to large concentrations of ammonia, it can kill them!

Also, i agree test kits could mess up, but its infinitely more reliable than not testing at all.