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So ground up a small pinch of food. Add it to water. Small water change on 3/31. Then cycled? That seems way too easy but I love it if that actually works!how to turn this exact cycle into a testless cycle with a known completion date
right now, add in one small pinch of fish food, any type, ground into powder in the setup.
wait until 3/31/23 and then do a water change of whatever % you can muster to change and the tank is cycled, and nothing your test kits say matter in it being cycled. source for claims: 40 page work thread on testless cycling. if you have rocks stewing in there, they'll be done by that date with a little carbon boost in place. since you can see by searching api usually shows .25-.5 ammonia in fully stocked tanks, you won't be able to expect your kit to tell you when it's ready.
between now and then you'd study on fish disease order of addition/stocking from the disease forum, that way your cycled tank wont get full up on disease right when you add new fish to it.
What’s the best way to acclimate my fish into my tank? I bought some saltwater from my LFS to get started and they keep their water at .030 salinityit's what we've been doing here all this time:
give it a run and post the results/we collect outcomes not the test kit readingsHow to unstick any seemingly stuck cycle
non digital ammonia test kit readings (api, Red Sea, nyos, seachem badges) make you think you aren’t cycled when indeed you are if you owned a $200 expensive seneye meter, you’d never be doubting your cycle status. since .01% of the reefing population owns these, we need a way to help the...www.reef2reef.com
*don't forget to buy fish in ways that account for acclimation of salinity. nearly every pet shop you get fish from holds them at very low salt levels, very low, because it's a cheat to preventing diseased fish they sell from expressing
but owners buy them, the get them into .024~ display water too quickly, which is the real initial insult. take your salinity meter when you buy fish, and don't buy from any keeper housing them well below reef salinity. simply buy from another source. don't bag float new fish to acclimate them, that's what freshwater aquarists do.
Okay so I need to find fish that are kept in the same salinity water I have?you have to test the water they keep the clownfish in not the change water
It does. It has. It will. I myself just did exactly this. Dropped in bottled bacteria, added the food, 10 days later added fish. Not a test one was done. All fish thriving and happy.So ground up a small pinch of food. Add it to water. Small water change on 3/31. Then cycled? That seems way too easy but I love it if that actually works!