Blu3Shyft
Aquarium Advice Regular
Just a quick thread to kinda show off my (daughter's) tank progress. Still working on cycling the tank. Kinda working. Ammonia still taking a long time to go down, but Nitrites are staying at 0, and Nitrate is slowly climbing. It's only been a week and a day since I started the cycling though, so I'm glad of the progress made anyway.
Quick question, though. Am I correct in thinking that the cycling will be more effective/slightly faster with more decorations and mid-tank (like IN the water, not around edges/on the bottom) surface area?
adding the water last week.
wife scared the hell out of me with the camera flash JUST as I went to grab the surge strip and plug in the filter and heater. I was sure it was electricity arcing to my hand!
first of the decorations in and filter running.
soon to be birthday girl checking out her present in progress. She picked the decorations. The bag on the bottom left is a 'slime starter' from a LFS's established tank that she keeps extra old filters in just for the purpose of cycling help.
Added some more decorations (more surface area for the bacteria to cling to), and a starter piece of wood, about 5 inches long, also from an established tank behind the dragon, by the filter intake.
What do you think? Should I adjust placement of equipment or anyting? I was thinking have the filter intake toward the corner so it's kinda easy to 'hide' with plants or something.
Quick question, though. Am I correct in thinking that the cycling will be more effective/slightly faster with more decorations and mid-tank (like IN the water, not around edges/on the bottom) surface area?
adding the water last week.
wife scared the hell out of me with the camera flash JUST as I went to grab the surge strip and plug in the filter and heater. I was sure it was electricity arcing to my hand!
first of the decorations in and filter running.
soon to be birthday girl checking out her present in progress. She picked the decorations. The bag on the bottom left is a 'slime starter' from a LFS's established tank that she keeps extra old filters in just for the purpose of cycling help.
Added some more decorations (more surface area for the bacteria to cling to), and a starter piece of wood, about 5 inches long, also from an established tank behind the dragon, by the filter intake.
What do you think? Should I adjust placement of equipment or anyting? I was thinking have the filter intake toward the corner so it's kinda easy to 'hide' with plants or something.