Any opinions?

Saltybumfuzzle · Aug 10, 2016

Chrisfish said:
as others have stated you do want to invest in good test kits, a refractometor, and an ATO , I manually do mine at this time. And as I did read read read, and I watched you tube videos, I have learned lots from the members here and watching you tube:D

Yeahh those I definitely do want, I'd probably end up getting them in that same order too haha:D but yeahh Ive always topped off manually so I'm used to it xD so when I do get an ATO I'll be like :cool: hahah

Saltybumfuzzle · Aug 12, 2016

I didn't really want to make a bunch of threads haha but I just found out I'm gonna have to go out of state for a few days, it shouldn't be no more than a week. But I was thinking about starting the tank and having it hopefully cycle while I'm away, I know it might take longer but I was wondering if you guys thought it'd be a good idea to Atleast start the cycle while I'm away so it wouldn't seem as long to cycle. :)

azbigjohn · Aug 12, 2016

Well, other than not being able to make sure it is, indeed, cycling, (by tracking ammonia and nitrate) that wouldn't be too bad.

Saltybumfuzzle · Aug 12, 2016

azbigjohn said:
Well, other than not being able to make sure it is, indeed, cycling, (by tracking ammonia and nitrate) that wouldn't be too bad.

Yeahh I was thinking about starting it a few days before, since I'm not sure when I'll have to leave, but I was going to make sure it started cycling before I had to leave :)