Help for starting up a 10 gallon tank

[Mgamer20o0]

hmm...after reading more about the harms of cycling with fish would it be possible to raise any significant amount of bacteria just using some of the fish food and maybe pouring in the water I keep dumping out during my water changes? Or perhaps I could use one or two of my ghost shrimp. It seems very slow this way in any case, so I wonder how much good it would do. .

P.S. Where do you get liquid ammonia btw?

[Edit] Although many of you think that 10 g is an improvement over 1.2 g anytime, so i'll probably try to arrange that as fast as possible. However, to give you the complete details, I actually have 3 bettas to take care of right now (since my brothers don't want theirs and are pretty irresponsible), so this still might prove useful.

I don't think I will use craig list since I'm still pretty unfamiliar with those kind of things (don't even have a credit card yet...if that's used).

craigslist is a free place to post ads for thing.

your jar isnt cycled yet. your best bet is just to put the betta in the 10 gal and cycle with the fish in there.

 

[Reddog80p]

hmm...after reading more about the harms of cycling with fish would it be possible to raise any significant amount of bacteria just using some of the fish food and maybe pouring in the water I keep dumping out during my water changes? Or perhaps I could use one or two of my ghost shrimp. It seems very slow this way in any case, so I wonder how much good it would do. .

P.S. Where do you get liquid ammonia btw?

[Edit] Although many of you think that 10 g is an improvement over 1.2 g anytime, so i'll probably try to arrange that as fast as possible. However, to give you the complete details, I actually have 3 bettas to take care of right now (since my brothers don't want theirs and are pretty irresponsible), so this still might prove useful.

I don't think I will use craig list since I'm still pretty unfamiliar with those kind of things (don't even have a credit card yet...if that's used).

The 3 bettas will only be ok if they are ALL females. Any male and female combination will result in death. You can find "pure" ammonia at a harware store or grocery store. Do not use scented ammonia (lemon,berry whaterever)
Look at the ingredients the stuff you want is just water and ammonia. Stay away from ammonia with purfumes, cleaners, surfactants and other additives. Shake the bottle, if it foams it has additives. Ace hardwares ammonia is known to work.

 

[wataugachicken]

he can use tank dividers to make a 3-in-1 in the ten. . . but then again that's more $$ to spend.

ever look through the newspaper and see the classified ads? craigslist is just like that, a local area online classified ad site.

no matter what, you should tell your cousin to stop breeding fish if she can't find proper homes for them BEFORE they are raised. "surprise, here's a fish!" isn't a good idea if someone is not expecting or prepared for a fish, or doesn't have the extra cash laying around to spend on the hobby. fish, bunnies, or puppies - pets are not good gifts!