oceanblue
Aquarium Advice Apprentice
I’m new to aquarium hobby. I didn’t know about the nitrification process when I bought my 10G tank couple months ago. The LFS owner gave a pamphlet about the nitrification process and recommended to start the cycle with 2 feeder fish. First the fish were infected with fungus, and eventually died in 2 weeks. Only when I was reading about the fungus, I came to know about fishless cycle. After the fishes died, I started with fishless cycle (on Sep 9th). This is what I was doing during the cycling process.
- Heater set to 85 F
- Dosing about 4ppm of pure ammonia ever other day
- Testing the water parameters after adding ammonia
- Adding bacterial supplement (TopFin) during water top-up/change