Hello there,
Firstly, you'll need to explain everything to me like you'd explain it to a child lol I've read so much about cycling and all this stuff And I grasp the concept, help grow bacteria, amonia is needed for this, bacteria eventually convert amonia to nitrite, then nitrite to nitrate, water change helps remove it, weeks later all done and happy fish, or from what I gather, but everywhere online I can find explains the process, but not actually HOW to do it, there are no step by step instructions anywhere, just lots of rambling about bacteria but not how to actually do it on a practical level.
For my Fish loving 2 year olds birthday I bought a little 24ltr tank just to have a couple of little fish in for her to look at from pets at home. They said to just set it all up with the water and tap safe and leave it 3 days then come back and get the fish. It's a little cheap tank they do with a little filter that has a little tube thingy that sits about the water and spits a stream of water out to make more oxygen I assume? Anyway so I washed all the gravel and decorations and placed them in, along with the love fish tap safe and also love fish filter booster, which says to add a double dose daily for 7 days, so I measured it out with a syringe and added what the pack says. Sorted I thought, now just wait a bit and get fish, wrong I guess. A couple of days later the water turned milky, not massively so, but enough that I can notice it which im told is bacteria? Anyway my question is, what should I do now? I don't want to spend a fortune on testing kits and everything just for a couple of tiny fish but at the same time I don't want to harm any little fishys I may get. All advice welcome! And sorry its so long!
Firstly, you'll need to explain everything to me like you'd explain it to a child lol I've read so much about cycling and all this stuff And I grasp the concept, help grow bacteria, amonia is needed for this, bacteria eventually convert amonia to nitrite, then nitrite to nitrate, water change helps remove it, weeks later all done and happy fish, or from what I gather, but everywhere online I can find explains the process, but not actually HOW to do it, there are no step by step instructions anywhere, just lots of rambling about bacteria but not how to actually do it on a practical level.
For my Fish loving 2 year olds birthday I bought a little 24ltr tank just to have a couple of little fish in for her to look at from pets at home. They said to just set it all up with the water and tap safe and leave it 3 days then come back and get the fish. It's a little cheap tank they do with a little filter that has a little tube thingy that sits about the water and spits a stream of water out to make more oxygen I assume? Anyway so I washed all the gravel and decorations and placed them in, along with the love fish tap safe and also love fish filter booster, which says to add a double dose daily for 7 days, so I measured it out with a syringe and added what the pack says. Sorted I thought, now just wait a bit and get fish, wrong I guess. A couple of days later the water turned milky, not massively so, but enough that I can notice it which im told is bacteria? Anyway my question is, what should I do now? I don't want to spend a fortune on testing kits and everything just for a couple of tiny fish but at the same time I don't want to harm any little fishys I may get. All advice welcome! And sorry its so long!
