plantedstudent
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Hi all, I have a question about cycling my planted tank. I am a college student, and was planning on cycling the tank with some media from a friend, but I realized that that aquarium was saltwater. Will the media from a SW tank help to cycle a FW tank?
Also, my plan for the time frame was to get the tank planted with everything except the fish (heater, light, filter, PFS substrate with liquid fert, etc) the week after Thanksgiving. I will be around for a week after that, then I'm headed home for break for about 5 weeks. I was planning on dosing with ammonia or some kind of bacteria starter as soon as I get the tank set up, and monitoring for those two weeks that I'm still at school, then letting it do its thing until I get back. I will be able to leave everything plugged in, but is this a recipe for disaster? I was thinking it would be a good way to let the plants get established and the ammonia cycle happen with the help of the plants, but I don't want to have spent all that time and money for all the plants to melt away or something like that.
Thoughts?
Also, my plan for the time frame was to get the tank planted with everything except the fish (heater, light, filter, PFS substrate with liquid fert, etc) the week after Thanksgiving. I will be around for a week after that, then I'm headed home for break for about 5 weeks. I was planning on dosing with ammonia or some kind of bacteria starter as soon as I get the tank set up, and monitoring for those two weeks that I'm still at school, then letting it do its thing until I get back. I will be able to leave everything plugged in, but is this a recipe for disaster? I was thinking it would be a good way to let the plants get established and the ammonia cycle happen with the help of the plants, but I don't want to have spent all that time and money for all the plants to melt away or something like that.
Thoughts?