Another new boring cycle post

2 weeks ago I move an old marine tank 500L form my old office to my new office and started fresh with africans chilidis, I waited 12 hours for the
water to get to 24C and then added aqua safe and a little bit of marine a salt (half hand full) not sure if I added enough, then wend shopping for one african chiclids fish to just test the system for toxins. He lived over nigh then went shopping the next day to "fill to the brim" with fish so there will be les aggression, buy any one standards it would be considered over stocked, then I waited another day to allow the ammonia to build then I took all the old filter wool out of a old african tank at home (Not the gravel just the woo) and transported it to the new tank and let it lay on top of the trickle filter and squeezes all the wool out in the sump.

I fed heavily for the fist 4 days and notice the nitrite reading had a very slight orange suggestion 0.1ppm NO2, as I would not have the energy to start doing water changes I almost stopped feeding, and just gave very little food every day and started to monitor NO2 daily, at the same time some of the new fish had some large white bumps (bigger than white spot and fin rot F0 adult fish.) I started to dose a full dose Serra Costapur (it has malachite green) every second day. after 5 days the Nitrite as gone back to yellow 0.0NO2 not that 0.1PPM was very significant, although I did not know how high it was going to get so hence the daily moniteur, now the fish are clean and I ve stop meds and the tank is cycled.

Basically all this ammonia post have made a mountain out of a mole hill cycling is going from yellow to a very very slight orange then back to yellow.

No rocket science involved at all.

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surely it's better to slowly stock your
tank and quarantine so that your fish DONT end up with
large white lesions and fin rot and THEN medicating them

Are Ammonia posts boring?

That would be an ecumenical matter! :wink:

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surely it's better to slowly stock your
tank and quarantine so that your fish DONT end up with
large white lesions and fin rot and THEN medicating them

No, and No and No, sorry I dont agree on all three points.

1)To stock slowly, you have the problem of aggression form the established inhabitants, especial african chiclids, and each time you add fish you expose the other to more risk of diseases, I would rather get it over quickly and hit it on the nail.

2)My 12 hour old tank was a massive quatine tank which evolved into a display tank after all my drastic treatments were over.

3) The fin for was the fish were imported directly from Africa (adult F0 fish) so you are going to bring in something any way.

The bottom line is I am drunk and you are ugly and I will be sober in the morning** Not literally ofcourse as the tank did not get any where near the results of the other ammonia post and 20 day cycle system, 0.1PPM for 3 days in not much to mention the fish are fine its very over stocked and there is no fish lost.

**Winston Churchill quote, basically your tank is ugly and my tank was risky and probally less desirably than yours from 12 hours old to 7 days old and perhaps worrying for some, even though after 48 hours it got a hole load of diry filter wool from a old tank, the bottom line is its not pissed any more and you tank is still ugly. (not literally, so don take it personnel!)

See I knew I was right when I voted that ammonia posts are not borring?

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