[Alin10123]

Thanks for this Ron. When i first started i wish i would've done the research instead of just listening to the folks at the LFS who told me that my tank was ready. I'm sure this will help a LOT of the new folks out.

By the way, another way to do a fishless cycle is to add a source of ammonia that isn't ammonia. For example i did the shrimp method. I basically just dropped a ****tail shrimp in the tank for about 5 days and my test showed a huge increase in ammonia. I took the shrimp out before it started to stink up the tank. Then i added some fish flakes in order to keep up the ammonia source while the flakes rotted away at the bottom. My 55 gallon tank cycled in exactly 1 month. Of course i also took the filter media out of my cycled 20 gallon and let it sit in my 55 for about an hour. But i didn't do that until i was positive of an ammonia source.


thanks again for the info.