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spacepops

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So before you pass judgement the fish in this tank will only be here temporarily during a period of fish in cycling. I have here a 1gallon aqeon minibow. I have fine gravel as substrate. A few smooth stones as hard scape .this will be for only shrimp after it’s cycled I had it running that way for a few day then decided to add the little Minnows from my other tank in here. I first did only one “since it’s so small” but he freaked out alone and I decided to have his battle buddy tag along with him. They were fine after 5 minutes. They even ate like normal. So last night I decided to find some land moss to try and carpet this little 1 gallon. And this is the result
 

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hey King! And they are doing well so it seems when I get up this morning. They are utilizing the little tunnel I made with the stones. I have been doing 50% WC everyday and I added some filter floss from my other established tank I believe that may be helping. These little guys have gone through a fish in cycle once before and they are healthier now than the first time. The spikes shouldn’t be too harsh. I believe the plants will help the cycle right?
 
The plants help minimally. The 50% water changes daily is what will help with spikes. If you added BB from an established tank then you should be cycled soon if not instantly.
 
I added bb from the other tank and live bb from a package. Eventually with the plant life I won’t need a filter right?
 
I might be wrong about this but I think you need a heavily planted tank to be able to go filter less. I personally would run a small air driven sponge filter or airstones for water movement which in turn oxygenates the water. You could probably get away without having biological filtration media as the BB would accumulate on everything in the tank. This is true for many established tanks though and yours is fairly new???
 
Yes it is . And king fisher yes this tank is only a week old or so and the one I took to the bb from is about 1.7 months
 
Got home from work and checked the water before feeding and WC. And this is what I got . Looks like we are moving in the right direction since these were showing heavy traces last night

Edit: the fish are chasing food and there’s plant growth
 

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More water changes if there's any Nitrite.

If there is no filter then isn't there nothing to cycle?

I’m still slightly getting nitrite. I went ahead and removed the fish. I had to move the little tank to a window and hope it gets enough light through the blinds “I replaced the bulb in the hood and melted the hood smh” it wasn’t on the tank at the moment . Any ways the light is was kept it warm and now no light at all so natural light it is for now. It does have a filter . No cartridge it has a diy cartridge lol I took some sponge and put it in a pantyhose then draped a piece of floss from my established tank over that foam. As well as a prefilter sponge. And since I took the fish out I’ll be adding small amounts of mysis shrimp to spike the ammonia
 
Here’s an update . I’m gettin lots of growth and I added duck weed . And just now a hitch hiker popped up
 

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