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If you add a bacteria starter and ammonia you can Add fish after one week. Or you can add 1-2 small fish within 48 hours, after tank water is heated along with bacteria starter. Lasse, a professional aquarist in Sweden recommends cycling with hardy fish and a bacteria starter. That’s how we always did it back in the day and it’s still viable though now considered inhumane by hippies.
Ya i know but you need a big bottle.. thkse 250ml or 500ml bottles are too small and thr ones the stores sell are crap.. its a mix if fresh and zalt water bacteria... that isnt possible one or the other... its a gimmick for the store stuff.
I put fish and corals in my tank after 2 days but i used a gallon of fritszyme 9 it instant cycled my tank.. but i know what im doing.
Telling that to the average joe who wants a tank now he will ignore you.
Im no hippie i drive 30 year old gas guzzling v8 Jeeps.. but putting a fish or two to cycle a tank is stupid.. put a dead shrimp from the grocery store and watch how fast that ammonia will go up... It usnt about being a hippie its about using your brain.. why succumb a living animal to torture just to get it to tick and crap in the tank to cause ammonia when simply tossing s dead shrimp or a crap ton of flake food in will do the same thing