[Fishfirst]

Well since no one wants to talk about cycling I will...

russianwolfy, I would highly suggest you read this thread. It kind of clears up the confusion on cycling and puts it into fairly easy terms to understand.
http://www.fishforums.com/forum/gene...le-basics.html

You see, cycling or bad water chemistry is THE biggest killer of fish in the hobby today. A lot of people come to my work and ask me why all their fish are dying. They automatically assume its a disease. I politely ask them to bring in a sample of water, and we test it, and 90% of the time... its water quality and cycling being the culprit. Ammonia burns fish and damages gills, nitrite bonds to their gills better than oxygen and so they can't take up oxygen very well when nitrite is present. So you see, a combo of the two can be very very deadly. Fish that actually survive cycling (which is sometimes the case if your lucky like betta_lover), often are accompanied by health problems such as fin rot, and often have a shortened life span.