amazonwoman
Aquarium Advice Apprentice
I am starting up a 30 gallon and I am of course anxious to get things going quickly. I have decided the "few hardy fish method" is not for me-I couldn't stand to watch them swim around in water I know is toxic to them-so I was wondering which would you recommend- using ammonia and cycling the tank without fish or getting bio-spira-I have read about both and I have heard that the bio-spira leads to pretty unstable levels in the future and I am nervous about playing around with a whole tank full of fish-and by the way-how expensive is bio-spira? As for the ammonia method-I've readabout it and I think I can do it but I am impatient to get some fish! So I guess I'm asking about anyone's experience with either methods-are there other drawbacks that you know of?