Recent content by Meelar

Update and proposed "instant" cycling experiment So today is day 10 of my tank cycling. My ammonia levels have definitely spiked and are remaining steady at around 1.5ppm. I added some Nutrafin Cycle to try to bring the ammonia levels down a bit and it did nothing. Here's the interesting...

I think you're right. You're confirming what I've read in a bunch of places now. Being a newbie I was worried my fish might get sick if I didn't feed them enough. Sounds like they can go a couple of days without food for now until things stabilize.

So I'm making an assumption here, and that's that aqauarists, not unlike dog owners, refer to each other by their "setup". "Oh, that's spike's owner." Feel free to call me "29g freshwater 4 mickey mouse platys". Or Meelar. I'm currently cycling my first ever home aquarium. It's a 29 gallon tank...