Stupid question about fishless cycling.

[AdamHorton]

You know that whole process for fishless cycling? Add ammonia, test to see if the ammonia is removed within a day, etc?

I've used it for saltwater with success, but before I tried it again for freshwater, I wanted to make sure it would actually work. I can't see any reason why it wouldn't work, but maybe I'm wrong.

 

[findad]

makes sense that it would be the same

 

[meegosh]

That's pretty much it, with a lot of waiting in between. Last step is dose back to ~4ppm ammonia and see if it is consumed within 24hrs. If it is, do a large water change and start stocking, slowly.

 

[Floyd R Turbo]

Yes, I did it on a 225 FW Cichlid tank. Took 2 weeks to fully cycle.

 

[AdamHorton]

Awesome. I've had so much success with fishless cycling in my SW tank (after so many failures with other stuff) and would love to be able to use the same method for FW, but I'd never explicitly heard that it was OK for FW.

 

[Mark Hewitt]

Yeah sure, in fact I've heard it talked about a lot with FW but didn't think it would work for SW