Fishy Cycle Status - Normal?

I was answering your question--the whole point of Bio-Spira is to have no visible cycle in the first place. Its not a matter of getting through the cycle faster with or without fish. Bio-Spira won't work without fish. See where I'm going with this...??
 
beachbuum04 said:
I was answering your question--the whole point of Bio-Spira is to have no visible cycle in the first place. Its not a matter of getting through the cycle faster with or without fish. Bio-Spira won't work without fish. See where I'm going with this...??
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BIO-Spira won't work without an ammonia source, actually. You can buy BIO-Spira, add it to a tank, then dose pure ammonia to a reading of 5 ppm, just like with fishless cycling and then check the readings the next day to determine if it cycled your tank or not.
 
Jess7 said:
So would it be healthier for the fish then?
Sorry I feel really dumb I'm pretty new at this :(
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It's no problem. All you do is add the correct dosage of Bio-Spira to your tank (it doesn't hurt to overdose, just make sure you don't go under the recommended amount). Within a few hours you need to add your fish. You can even add the fish right after you add the Bio-Spira; I wouldn't suggest waiting overnight, like the package indicates. There is no need to since the bacteria will die off without a food source (fish waste). Since you already have fish in the tank--I would do a large quantity water change (or completely tear down if you feel necessary) and then add the Bio-Spira. Thats it. Make sure you keep a close watch on the water parameters and do normal water changes. If you see any detectable ammonia or nitrites, you need to do extra water changes until they become undetectable. This probably will not happen unless you didn't add enough in the first place.

And then you have a cycled tank :)

This method worked for me and I haven't had any problems so far--the tank has been running for over a month now and completely stable.

This will be much healthier for your fish. Does that help?
 
So I could take out the betta and dwarf frogs and temporarily house then is a small tank, completely empty and redo the tank, add the BioSpira and ammonia, and within a couple days I should have a cycled tank?
Is that correct?
 
You got it. I'm stressing for you to keep an eye on the water parameters, though! ;)
 
I wouldnt even take the fish out of the tank, if you were gonna cycle with the fish, this will be WAY eaiser on them than going through a normal cycle. So just leave them in there, and add the correct amount of bio-spira and then keep an eye on your amonia and nitrItes, they should slowly start going down, and you will then see nitrAtes appear...voila you're now cycled! Bio-spira is also hard to get a hold of sometimes. If its not kept in a refrigerator, then its not the real deal so dont buy it.

If you cant get a hold of any bio-spira, try and get some filter floss from an established filter...ie: from the fish store, or perhaps someone you know with a tank thats allready been setup, ust put it in your filterI would do this on the 2.5 gallon as well. being that its such a small volume of water it will really help, because smaller amonts of water are more than likely going to be harder to keep "in check" they tend not to be as stable, imn regarrds to water chemistry.
 
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