weestv
Aquarium Advice Apprentice
Hello All,
Very new to the fish game so please bare with my ignorance on some facts. I bought a second hand trigon 190 tank that had been lying empty for a period of time, naively I took the word of someone else telling me that all I needed to do to get started was fill the tank with dechlorinated water and let it run the pump and filter for a month then add fish, how very very very wrong was this advice!
I have since done a lot of reading on cycling the tank and now that I have already bought 6 gouramis I now know that the cycle hasn't even begun. Ive read about fish in cycling and feel really bad (poor fish) that this is my only option now.
The fish have been in a week now and I have been testing for ammonia and nitrites and the ammonia is present 0.25 but nitrites aren't, the ammonia hasn't risen any further than this, am I right in thinking it should be climbing in order to convert into nitrites and in turn nitrates?
Will the tank still cycle if the ammonia doesnt rise? Can anyone point me towards a good guide for what to expect and how to make the fish as comfortable as possible throughout the cycle?
Thanks for any advice
WeeStv
Very new to the fish game so please bare with my ignorance on some facts. I bought a second hand trigon 190 tank that had been lying empty for a period of time, naively I took the word of someone else telling me that all I needed to do to get started was fill the tank with dechlorinated water and let it run the pump and filter for a month then add fish, how very very very wrong was this advice!
I have since done a lot of reading on cycling the tank and now that I have already bought 6 gouramis I now know that the cycle hasn't even begun. Ive read about fish in cycling and feel really bad (poor fish) that this is my only option now.
The fish have been in a week now and I have been testing for ammonia and nitrites and the ammonia is present 0.25 but nitrites aren't, the ammonia hasn't risen any further than this, am I right in thinking it should be climbing in order to convert into nitrites and in turn nitrates?
Will the tank still cycle if the ammonia doesnt rise? Can anyone point me towards a good guide for what to expect and how to make the fish as comfortable as possible throughout the cycle?
Thanks for any advice
WeeStv