Anyone have a ruff idea on how much fish food I should put in a 90 gallon to do a fishless cycle? I was thinking maybe 2 tsp. fist day and maybe 1/2 every other day?
Fishless cycle with food
- Thread starter midnightmadman
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I've done it, but not with that much food. The base idea is just to get a source of ammonia. No matter which way you cycle (unless you have used filter pads etc). Rotting fish food creates ammonia. But I've also never cycled that large of a tank either! I usually just toss in a few shrimp pellets. Wait a few days. I don't think you'll need to add food every day. With no one eating and just adding more, I would think the end result would be some very nasty substrate etc. Maybe just start with one teaspoon and see how it goes.
Yeah this is the first time I was going to try it without the old 'sacrifice' fish method. All of my last 20+ years of aquarium keeping I always did it the old school way.
Yeah, I have only done fish cycle's when I didn't know what cycling really was. I either do the food method (which I'm doing right now on a 5g) or transfer of used media. I've also done where you can put used gravel in panty hose, which I dont have so I just used a ziplock bag with lots of holes punched in, and put that in the aquarium for awhile.
Good luck!
Good luck!
Here is an updated article by the guy who started "fishless" cycling, on the internet.
http://www.tropicalfishcentre.co.uk/Fishlesscycle.htm
Here is an article that suggests a much cheaper form of ammonia for starting a fishless cycle. You already have what you need and you're currently throwing it out. ;-)
http://www.skepticalaquarist.com/fishless-cycling
http://www.tropicalfishcentre.co.uk/Fishlesscycle.htm
Here is an article that suggests a much cheaper form of ammonia for starting a fishless cycle. You already have what you need and you're currently throwing it out. ;-)
http://www.skepticalaquarist.com/fishless-cycling
Thanks. I threw a bottle of API Quick Start in also. I have been just adding a pinch of pellets every few days. Ammonia is at 1.5- 2 right now