JoelCouch
Aquarium Advice Regular
Trusting what I thought was a good LFS (local being 3 hours from my house), I started a tank with ADA Super Sand, AD Amazonian Soil, couple pieces of driftwood and a bunch of plants. He instructed me to light the tank for 8 hours a day, daily water changes for a week, every other day for a couple weeks, then once a week thereafter. His suggestion was that it will take a month before I am ready to add fish.
I am a very patient person, I am ok with whatever the timeline is with each stage of this process.
I'm about a week and a half into this process and am having an increasing amount of algae in the tank. Naturally I research how to handle this. This is when I start to learn that it is not recommended to have a planted tank while trying to do a fishless cycle.
Totally makes sense to me... now. However, I have a tank full of plants. What do I do with those plants while the tank completes cycling? Or is there another option?
Some of the plants I have require a fair amount of light, or I would just setup a bucket and go down and grab a cheap filter.
At any rate, this is where I am at. What I'd like to know is where to go from here. I would hate to lose all those plants (kind of a pricey lesson), however, I just want to end up with the results of a good clean and properly cycled tank. If that means tossing the plants and starting over, then so be it. Otherwise, I'm up for better suggestions (I'm sure there are some options).
I am a very patient person, I am ok with whatever the timeline is with each stage of this process.
I'm about a week and a half into this process and am having an increasing amount of algae in the tank. Naturally I research how to handle this. This is when I start to learn that it is not recommended to have a planted tank while trying to do a fishless cycle.
Totally makes sense to me... now. However, I have a tank full of plants. What do I do with those plants while the tank completes cycling? Or is there another option?
Some of the plants I have require a fair amount of light, or I would just setup a bucket and go down and grab a cheap filter.
At any rate, this is where I am at. What I'd like to know is where to go from here. I would hate to lose all those plants (kind of a pricey lesson), however, I just want to end up with the results of a good clean and properly cycled tank. If that means tossing the plants and starting over, then so be it. Otherwise, I'm up for better suggestions (I'm sure there are some options).