When Can I Add Fish???

gst4life said:
Not true^ They will not just "die " from being put in there. They can die from ammonia spikes though. Ive had 4 zebra danios in my tank 2 weeks after it had been setup, and they are fine.
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I’ll assume you are responding to me? And yes, they can ‘just die’ if you add fish to an un-cycled tank and don’t bother to take readings of the water parameters or preventative measures to keep ammonia and nitrite down. This tank is un-cycled atm and he has no test kit to measure ammonia and nitrite levels. Any fish he puts in this tank will die without daily water changes to keep toxic levels low.
 
I tested the water and did water changes so that may be why they are fine.....But it defianately wont kill the fish "right"away.
 
From uncycled water??? Im confused. Ive never had a fish die Right away from being in a uncycled tank. But I do agree they can die in a matter of days
 
Are they going to immediately go belly-up or have their bodies melted off until there's nothing left but bones? No. But they can die in under an hour because people who DON'T LISTEN and ALREADY KNOW EVERYTHING don't pay attention to practical experience and simple science.

Ammonia (even in VERY SMALL amounts) can and will kill MANY fish. Just because it hasn't happened to you doesn't mean it doesn't happen. It just means you've gotten lucky. The last thing any of us want to happen is for someone new to keeping to come in here and listen to someone with (obviously) extremely limited experience spew off on a subject on which they're obviously ignorant.

I try to give only good, logical advice. If I don't know, I don't post and I read what the EXPERIENCED have to say. That's the whole point.
 
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