Recent content by mikevill

Ok... so after reading what y'all have said here, I think I need to do the following: 1. Do a 50% water change 2. Add water to top off (dechlorinated, of course) 3. Get three hardy fish to live eat and poop in the tank 4. Do a 75% water change every 3 to 4 days 5. Pray they don't die on me :)...

Thanks for the info Andy. I ordered the FritzZyme 7 on Amazon and I live in Texas so temperatures here were above 102 degrees from June to last week. Soooooo.... I am imagining that they were dead on arrival. :( I could do the fish-in cycle but I am not sure if I have the time to be doing...

Thanks again! I will try that.

Hi Aiken Drum. Thank you for your prompt reply. I am doing fishless because I don't want to harm any fish or use them as guinea pigs. I don't have anyone around me with established tanks so I cannot use any of their filter media to "insta-cycle" my tank and add fish to it, so I have to go the...

Good day to all, I am currently fishless cycling a brand new tank and I am not entirely sure if I am doing this right. I added all the gravel substrate, decorations, filter, airstones, heater, thermometer (set to 82 degrees), water, and dechlorinator (as per instructions on bottle). I added...