new2betas
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I am helping a friend of mine with cycling her tank. She has owned fw fish in the past, but had never heard of fishless cycling before, so I am introducing her to it. She fell in love with my new dwarf puffer this past week and decided she wanted one, but I told her ONLY if she did a cycle of the tank first, would I help her order one....LOL!! So, she went out bought tank and all the trimmings. She got a 20g long. I took out three good sized pieces of filter pad from two of my existing tanks and one ornament (kept them wet) and took them over to her house as she was setting up her tank. My question is this......with using this filter media how long will it take before she starts to see nitrites? I gave her some of my ammonia also since I have more than enough to spare. We set up the tank on Sunday. I went over to her house yesterday and took the filter pads out of her filter and squeezed them in her tank, as I had forgotten to do that on Sunday. She does still need to cycle with the ammonia, correct? even though she has my used filter media? It is still okay to be using the ammonia right?
Any insight into this would be appreciated. As I told my friend yesterday, I have experience with the fishless cycling, but I never was fortunate enough to have used filter media to get from anyone, so I have never cycled that way before. So, I am not completely sure on when she will start seeing nitrites this way.
Any insight into this would be appreciated. As I told my friend yesterday, I have experience with the fishless cycling, but I never was fortunate enough to have used filter media to get from anyone, so I have never cycled that way before. So, I am not completely sure on when she will start seeing nitrites this way.