My cycle is finally over after a 9 week period.
I did a fishless cycle with at least 10 shrimp in a 225 and plan to go fish only.
I put in a very cool 4" Clown Grouper today and removed all the black decaying shrimp pieces. How long do I wait until I put in another fish. I have read that it should be one fish a month when stocking but how will 1 grouper sustain the bacteria bed that 10 or more decaying shrimp established for one whole month? I ask this because one, I can get a real good deal on a nice size Tusk Wrasse at the LFS and would love to get it before someone else does. And two, I think by having only 1 fish in there for a month my bacteria bed may shrink and minicycle next time I add something.
I was considering making a water change in a couple of days since I haven't done one yet anyway and hopefully would make it good to add the wrasse in a week. Does this sound like a potential disaster or will it work?
Thanks for the help.
I did a fishless cycle with at least 10 shrimp in a 225 and plan to go fish only.
I put in a very cool 4" Clown Grouper today and removed all the black decaying shrimp pieces. How long do I wait until I put in another fish. I have read that it should be one fish a month when stocking but how will 1 grouper sustain the bacteria bed that 10 or more decaying shrimp established for one whole month? I ask this because one, I can get a real good deal on a nice size Tusk Wrasse at the LFS and would love to get it before someone else does. And two, I think by having only 1 fish in there for a month my bacteria bed may shrink and minicycle next time I add something.
I was considering making a water change in a couple of days since I haven't done one yet anyway and hopefully would make it good to add the wrasse in a week. Does this sound like a potential disaster or will it work?
Thanks for the help.
