NatureFish
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Yes. So how do you know whether its considered high or long? I'm sorry for being a newbie... I don't know a lot of these terms.
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Yes. So how do you know whether its considered high or long? I'm sorry for being a newbie... I don't know a lot of these terms.
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Some stores sell live nitrifying bacteria. I've never used it since it's illegal here but supposedly it works well.
The 29g should have the same foot print as a 20g long. 30" long x 12" wide (front to back).
You can do a Google search on tank dimensions.
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Oh and are there any products to aid in cycling? I've been at it for over a month and haven't made a whole lot of progress. I've been using different fish foods as an ammonia source. My ammonia is 0.25... Is that good or bad or neither?
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What is the highest you were able to get the ammonia using fish food? What are the nitrite and nitrate readings? This is a fishless cycle in the 29, correct? After a month I would think the filter would be converting it to nitrite.
Strong filters are nice and can help with processing nitrogenous waste but are no substitute for WCs (and testing to see how effective the WC amounts are). That being said, WCs are probably more important with weak filtration.
How much BB can and will develop depend on the media and the amount of ammonia present. More ammonia, more BB as long as it has had time to adjust to the ammonia levels and that there is adequate media for them to grow on. Yes, BB also develop on almost every surface in the tank.
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In Hawaii, certain products with live bacteria can't be shipped in.
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Fishless cycling is happening in the ten. The 29 hasn't even been taken out of the box. I'm not sure whether or not I will return it or keep it yet so that's why. The ten is really the only thing those platies can be in at the moment so would it work? Platies are tropical I believe so ill need to go get a heater. I figured that's the last step though. Also my dwarf hair grass that's in there is growing very slowly could that have anything to do with the fact there's no heater?
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How hardy is "hardy"? I'm a newbie and chances are ill screw something up.
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Hello again Nat...
Platys are at the top of the list of fish to use to cycle a freshwater tank. They're extremely tolerant of changes in water conditions that take place during the "nitrogen cycle". There are other species that are somewhat less tolerant, but still stand a good chance of surviving the cycling process. Female Guppies, Rasboras, White Clouds, and most species of Danios are some others.
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White clouds are hardy? Are they easy to breed? I like the golden variety.
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