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I have heard that nutrafin cycle does not contain the proper bacteria for a fish tank. Others will argue that it does. I have also read that using this product can actually stall the "real" cycling process in your tank.
That said, what do the directions say on the Cycle bottle as far as when you add your fish?
Under normal circumstances, your readings would indicate a tank that is ready for its first fish.
It's not that they don't look real. Your tank looks great!
Plants in a tank you're trying to cycle can absorb the nitrates thus giving you incorrect readings and throwing off your cycling. You might want to remove them and keep doing readings to see just how far into the cycle you are.
No, they look real enough I just wanted to make sure. You can put fish in now. Don't put to many in at once I suppose, but really there is no reason to wait. Going out of your way to cycle now would be cycling just for the sake of having cycled, not for the fish.
It's 65G 36x24x18 and about the Barbus in the magazine they told me is ok for now but I have in my head another one, but right now he is like The big Boss of the Tetras Hehehe