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    Starting a Fishless Cycle without a tank?

    Drove up to ACE Hardware today and got a gallon of the ammonia that everybody swears by. Filled up the 10 gal rubbermaid with de-chlorinated water, got the filters, heater and bubbler going, and then put about 1.5mL of the ammonia in. My god that stuff smells like cat-pee concentrate (if such...
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    Starting a Fishless Cycle without a tank?

    I agree with all of that completely. This isn't the only forum that I have read stickies about fishless cycling so it isn't like this is a brand new thing that nobody knows about. I think its clear that the people I talked to at Petco simply had no clue, and the people at the local fish store...
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    Starting a Fishless Cycle without a tank?

    Interesting conversation here. I have a bucket that will be perfect for doing this fishless cycling: a 10 gallon sterilite container. I may try and run to an Ace hardware that is about 20 minutes away tomorrow and see if they have the ammonia I seek. I want to bring up the local fish store...
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    Starting a Fishless Cycle without a tank?

    So I went out today and the only ammonia I could find was "LA's Totally Awesome Pure Ammonia" at the Dollar Tree Some quick google searches of threads here and elsewhere had mixed information about the stuff. Some said it had other additives, others said it works fine.. I decided not to get...
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    Starting a Fishless Cycle without a tank?

    Awesome! I've got a massive Rubbermaid that I can clean out and start cycling the water in. I'm assuming I can also syphon the water from it to use in the tank? The tank will have a new substrate and possibly some new decorations/plants but moving both the water and the filters should yield a...
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    Starting a Fishless Cycle without a tank?

    Hi everyone, this is my first post here. I am going to consider myself a newbie to keeping an aquarium even though I have had several tanks in the past. (30 gallon freshwater that housed a variety of things, and a 55 gallon that had 5 Red Belly Piranhas.) When I had those tanks I did a fair...
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