Well, I think I've successfully made myself another statistic. Today I've decided to start a fishless cycle. Please don't think ill if me, but I killed quite a few little neons in my stupidity and currently have 4 unhealthy ones in an uncycled "quarantine" 10g. So, I have a few questions. I'll start from the beginning...We bought the tank, 20g, set 'er up and got some neons the next day. Then I noticed what I thought was ich (I've kept fish before when I was a teen, but wasn't educated at all about cycling etc.), so I put some medication in the tank called "Clout", it worked for the ich, a couple fish still died, but the leftovers seemed to have fin rot or fungus. We started to get frustrated...Anyways, this morning, (the day after the last treatment) I did a 75% water change,(50% was recommended by the med.), took the remaining ill fishies out and have decided to go with a less stressful fishless cycle. But I'm wondering if the parasites and possible fungus will be able to survive without any hosts? I know some parasites can be extremely resilient (sp?). Also, there are some plants- a clump of cabomba, 3 amazon swords, a small java fern, some kind of anubias, I think, and a peice of bogwood. I have seeded the tank with some water (1L or 1/4 US gallon) from my turtle tank, as well as conditioning the water with AquaPlus and Cycle, (both by Hagen). Does this all sound acceptable for a fishless cycle? Should I worry about possible leftover "nasties", or will the nitrogen cycle take care of that? Thanks a bunch for your replies,
Another sad statistic, Kat
Another sad statistic, Kat