If you add fish to a cycling tank you will be committed to doing daily water changes to keep the nitrites down.
my water is too hard
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Why? These fish do not originate from brackish environments.
So, by "brackish" do you mean fresh water with 'some' salt in it, or actual brackish water (e.g., specific gravity 1.005-1.015)?
Adding fish to a tank which is undergoing (but hasn't completed) a fishless cycle doesn't make sense.
Fishless cycling implies the tank is being dosed with or is generating ammonia, why add a fish to that type of hostile environment? (cycling with fish is one thing, but adding fish to a tank that hasn't completed its fishless cycle is something else).
Additionally, as the fishless method processes, nitrite will eventually accumulate, so again, why are fish needed for this purpose if nitrite and nitrate are eventual end results of the fishless cycle? The purpose of fishless cycling is that fish aren't required to make it happen.
The tank will be ready for fish when the tank is capable of processing a certain level of ammonia (and, subsequently, nitrite) within a 24hr period and the accumulation of nitrate is occuring.
I was wondering that as well...some african keepers add certain salts to "mimic" the composition of the lake but it is completely different from sea salt or bracksih environments
