Got to say the security here is top notch. lol I just joined two days ago and I guess I hit refresh too many time as I was trying to upload the pics and they marked me "my activity as suspicious. lol Good deal here. I finally got the green light today...so thanks for ziggy the mod I believe in the chatroom if he got me in.
Well, just jumped on board so, hello everyone! About 2 weeks ago I walked in to a pet store & somehow I came out with a 50g fish tank.
Worry not, I'm doing the fishless cycle and so far in about 12+ days the tank is going through the cycled. Just yesterday ammonia dropped to about 2ppm and was slowly dropping and I said what the heck and tested for nitrate was surprised it at 5.0ppm and I missed it *lol* and tested for Nitrate at 10ppm. Skip to day the Ammonia is gone, nitrate 5.0+ and nitrate at 40/80ppm.
I'm in no rush & working OT to make sure I have everything up and running correct and then some before the fish goes in & before I posted anything to make sure I understood what I was doing and why. I wanted things to be hard now so it will be easier for later for me when I have fish you can say. It was going to start with just red cap goldfish and a friend made sure I went the cichlid route and that is the way I'm going now and I’m glad.
So far, I have a 50g tank, Emperor 400 bio wheel which I tweak just a bit with bio balls if you can call it that, a fluval heater with temps set at 80-81, egg crate in there for Texas Holey Rock (as I look for them at a good price
) and got pool sand as my choice. Only a very, very small section of pool sand went inside as I want to set the rocks up on the egg crate. I think that about it for now but I do know the direction I'm going as far as filter and the whole 9. I guess that's for another time!
Well, just jumped on board so, hello everyone! About 2 weeks ago I walked in to a pet store & somehow I came out with a 50g fish tank.
Worry not, I'm doing the fishless cycle and so far in about 12+ days the tank is going through the cycled. Just yesterday ammonia dropped to about 2ppm and was slowly dropping and I said what the heck and tested for nitrate was surprised it at 5.0ppm and I missed it *lol* and tested for Nitrate at 10ppm. Skip to day the Ammonia is gone, nitrate 5.0+ and nitrate at 40/80ppm.I'm in no rush & working OT to make sure I have everything up and running correct and then some before the fish goes in & before I posted anything to make sure I understood what I was doing and why. I wanted things to be hard now so it will be easier for later for me when I have fish you can say. It was going to start with just red cap goldfish and a friend made sure I went the cichlid route and that is the way I'm going now and I’m glad.
So far, I have a 50g tank, Emperor 400 bio wheel which I tweak just a bit with bio balls if you can call it that, a fluval heater with temps set at 80-81, egg crate in there for Texas Holey Rock (as I look for them at a good price
) and got pool sand as my choice. Only a very, very small section of pool sand went inside as I want to set the rocks up on the egg crate. I think that about it for now but I do know the direction I'm going as far as filter and the whole 9. I guess that's for another time! 
To AA!
