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Ok so out of impatience I cleaned my grandsons turtle tank today and poured a bucket of yuckies from there into my tank..Going to wait till morning to see what things look like hoping it kicked off my fishless cycle... I deleted my other post couldn't keep looking at it I really miss my fishes...
So far day one I began with PH 7.6 all other values O
I set up my new filter and put my established plants back in my tank.
I then dumped about 4oz of flourish in the water to make my plants happy
Followed bye 1/4 cup fish food. (75 gallon tank.) to kick off cycle.
Day 2
Swished all that fish food around in the am. and again in the pm.
AM test
Ammonia .50
PH 7.6
Nitrites .25
Nitrates 5ppm
Tested water a second time in pm
Nitrate 0 other values same as in AM..
Sooo I Added turtle tank gunk...HA... My plants are loving it..
2 hours after pouring in the yuckies I vacuumed the left over fish food on floor of my tank.
I am still waiting for my substrate to arrive.Hoping in comes in tomorrow...
Curious what happens with my cycle over the next few days...
The root system in my amazon sword is huge.