Planted Plants During Fishless Cycle?

[adfsuperduke]

Hi All

I'm a few days into fishless cycling my tank and having planted cuttingsi'm not sure should i be feeding them or will this stall/harm the cycling process?

The cutlings are planted in the Silica play sand substrate at a depth of around 2"

Cheers for any advice

ps, i posted this in another section but I think it wasn't in the right place as no replies.

 

[ian]

The problems with using plants in a fishless (ammonia) cycle is that, the plants will need light. When ammonia is introduced, you'll get algae as light + Ammonia = Algae.

 

[adfsuperduke]

The problems with using plants in a fishless (ammonia) cycle is that, the plants will need light. When ammonia is introduced, you'll get algae as light + Ammonia = Algae.

Okay cheers for that, will any plant food i put in the tank affect the test readings or cycle though?

 

[ian]

Which food is it?

Some plant food contains ammonium (a safe form of ammonia), which still registers on test kits.