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If you don't dose with some form of bacteria, its going to take months, literal months for the tank to cycle. It'd be silly to not pick up a bottle of some kind of quick start, or Seachem Stability and start dosing daily. This will be the foundation of the bacterial colony and help turbo...

Go off of what the bottle says for your size tank, and just test daily to every two days, and dose once a day. That's the thing cycling is you just have to be patient and let it run its course

Yes, ammonia will spike, then nitrites will jump, and ammonia will drop, at that point you should start to see nitrates meaning the cycle is starting to come to a close. The big thing you'll be watching for is ammonia and nitrites to both drop to zero over a 24 hour period, this is your sign...

Its takes awhile, best thing you can do is keep dosing beneficial bacteria daily, this will help get the colony established. Aside from waiting to see ammonia readings meaning you'll start to see nitrites rise, you're also looking for the water to get very cloudy, this will be your bacterial...

its gonna take a bit before you start getting ammonia readings. Once you do get a spike you'll wanna do a water change since you have fish in tank to bring the numbers down. But for sure keep dosing beneficial bacteria daily until you've gotten the tank to cycle.

Can you upload a picture of the tank? What all equipment do you have? You'll have to do a fish in cycle in fish are in the tank. This requires having a filter of some sort, which a sponge filter on its own can work, but that should be in the tank. Do you have a test kit? If not you need to...

There's an absolute plethora of resources one can indulge themselves in, so take some time and get yourself schooled up. The question you need to ask yourself, are willing to maintain a tank? There's a certain level of commitment whether it be a 5 gallon tank, or a 200 gallon tank. If you...

I boarder line feel this is a troll post, but ill give you the benefit of the doubt. Honestly this is what frustrates me about the fish keeping hobby, so many people run out and buy a tank and do ZERO research on how to set one up, let alone maintain it. You didn't cycle the tank, and at your...

First off lets focus on getting your tank cycled, my 2 cents, ditch the Dr.Tim's junk, and switch to Seachem Stability, and get some Seachem prime, best stuff on the market. Get your ammonia up to 5 ppm, and start dosing daily with Seachem Stability, this will get your cycle moving along, no...

That filter is great! You wont have to worry about replacing anything! the bio rings never need replaced, once the tank is established a healthy beneficial bacteria colony will call those rings home, same for the sponge! carbon works well you water clarity and I run some in two of my tanks...

Before anything, the question that needs to be answered, are you willing to do the work to maintain the tank? Setting up and stocking a fish tank is only part of the process, maintaining it is the other half! Weekly to by weekly water changes, vacuuming the substrate, cleaning the glass...

Another thought, I'd pass on the clown loaches, as someone else said they really need a school of 5 to 6, and they get pretty big full grown. Really you'd be better to have a school of some type of cory cats for bottom feeding, or if you want loaches, and you can find some, id consider Yoyo...

I have one tank with three almost full grown EBA's, one almost full grown Rainbow shark, and a school of 8 Serpae tetras. They all get along great, and Ive had zero aggression issues! If you're seeking red schooling fish, Id consider Serpae Tetras as they are big enough that full grown EBA's...

Really don't need a sump for fresh water, just my 2 cents.. A good HoB such as the Marineland emperor 400 with good filter media would be enough plus a sponge filter or two. If you have the income you could always upgrade to a canister filter which would really be the best choice...

Keep in mind you don't need much pure ammonia , here's a good article on doing a fishless cycle: https://www.algone.com/fishless-aquarium-cycling. Id highly recommend using Seachem Stability for your beneficial bacteria, and dose daily to your tanks size, along with doing a full water change...

Plants wont speed the cycle, as you're still just waiting on ammonia to be converted to nitrites, until it converts to nitrates, which as someone else said some plants will suck that up keeping your levels low. For example one of my tanks is a planted setup, combined with the filtration I have...