What Fish To Put In Cycle

[SamUK]

your all missing something important here.


if the tank has been through a fishless cycle then he needs to stock the tank ASAP.


the bacteria needs ammonia to survive so they need fish in there now.

 

[Phantom Thief]

SamUK is right, imo.

The whole point of fishless cycling is for the tank to have enough bacteria to handle an ammonia load. You only add fish slowly if you're doing a fish cycle, so there's no point in adding them slowly now.

P.T.

 

[Fighterfish]

Hi,
Thanks for all the advice i have added two platies from my other tank.
Thsanks

 

[smurfyy_2k3]

i would use zebra danios

 

[soritan]

SamUK is right, imo.

The whole point of fishless cycling is for the tank to have enough bacteria to handle an ammonia load. You only add fish slowly if you're doing a fish cycle, so there's no point in adding them slowly now.

P.T.

Agreed, if you've fishless cycled to handle a big bioload, and then only add a small bioload, the unfed bacteria will starve to death. 5ppm ammonia is a big bioload, and that's the load the how-to on this forum uses. Adding slowly will destroy a good portion of the bacteria you've waited so long for.