Ammonia product for fishless cycling?

Kostas · Post by **Kostas** » 25 Jun 2003, 10:58

Hi,
I have just read about fishless cycling and i want to do it to my new tank which i am going to buy today!But i dont know which ammonia product is safe for aquarium use.Could you suggest me a product or give me some guiding rules?What products have you used to cycle your tank?

Thanks in advance

aeroflight · Post by **aeroflight** » 25 Jun 2003, 14:50

I went down to a local grocery store and found some pure ammonia in the household cleaning department. Make sure it's 100% pure or clear ammonia with no perfumes or surfactants. If you shake the bottle and it foams up, then it has surfactants.

Crissytal · Post by **Crissytal** » 25 Jun 2003, 15:46

I used Clear Sea Mist ammonia. It worked well. I was able to cycle my 55gal tank in under 2 weeks. Here are a couple links I found helpful:

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/faustus/ni ... shless.htm
http://home.attbi.com/~kerorocks/fishless_cycling.htm

Post by **Rusty** » 25 Jun 2003, 16:18

Kostas,

If you already have established fish tanks, fishless cycling is a waste of time. Just move some material which has bacteria into the new tank from the old tank, like gravel, putting old media into the filter, etc.

Rusty

Kostas · Post by **Kostas** » 26 Jun 2003, 09:28

Hi,
I have other tanks but they are running only 2 months apart from my cichlid tank which is well established but has calciferous gravel(and a large amount of peat to neutralise the ph) and from my 60 liter tank which,although it is well established,one of its fishes(gourami)is deseased and i dont know what he has