I believe the cycle is being done with fish. The water will need to be monitored everyday. Its only a few very tiny fish I think, so it won't be hard to keep everything running smoothly without harming the fish.
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I believe the cycle is being done with fish. The water will need to be monitored everyday. Its only a few very tiny fish I think, so it won't be hard to keep everything running smoothly without harming the fish.
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Yes i'm cycling with fish. Which shouldn't take long or be that bad since the tank was used by my friend until the day I got it when we gave her pleco away and dumped it out when I got home I refilled it. I have decided on some different things after visiting a fish forum and i'm getting some fish tomorrow.
4 Platys
3 pygmy cory cats
2 sparkling gourami
5 ghost shrimp
and perhaps an otto
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You'll want to get a male and female sparkling gourami, they are just like bettas. I do hope you've got plenty of hiding spaces for a lone female. Forget the otto, I discourage anybody from getting only one of a schooling species. They really are pitiful in a tank all by themselves, especially if you've seen the way they act in groups.
If the filter was kept wet the whole time between your houses, and it wasn't changed, there is a chance some of the bacteria survived. But it won't have had any "food" in the days that the tank was empty, unless you fed the empty tank. Lots of people feed empty tanks to keep the bacteria alive.
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She had a pleco which she fed in there the whole time. We gave him to her uncle since he was about 8 inches and way too big for the tank. I will skip out on the otto then thanks for the info.
Zoe and Oliver you will always be missed wait for me at the bridge babies.
Also owned by 2 cats named Olive and Sophie
1 bunny named Houdini
1 syrian hamster named Oreo
A 17 year old cockatiel named Baby
7 zebra finches named Beeper, Zeb, Sprout, Buzz, Scout, Jack and Pearl
7 bettas
and several tropical fish
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What I meant was putting food in the tank while it was empty. If you continue to run the filter and put food in the tank, the bacteria has a better chance of survival. Do you know how many days it was between her giving away the fish and you getting the tank and filling it up?
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We gave the fish away on sunday. I brought the tank home on monday so it has been about 5 days since there has been a fish.
Zoe and Oliver you will always be missed wait for me at the bridge babies.
Also owned by 2 cats named Olive and Sophie
1 bunny named Houdini
1 syrian hamster named Oreo
A 17 year old cockatiel named Baby
7 zebra finches named Beeper, Zeb, Sprout, Buzz, Scout, Jack and Pearl
7 bettas
and several tropical fish
Visit Lucy, Maggie, and Gracie's Doggyspace
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Do you have the filter plugged in so there's plenty of oxygen getting to the bacteria?
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