any fish food will do, we only wanted the minerals and N and P and carbon and protein (protein breaks down into feed ammonia too by action of contamination bacteria during setup, an all in one trick studied by Dr. Reefs bottle bac thread)
darn good job on fish preps disease
yes on sponge filters they don’t bind meds, have high surface area and strong flow- through, fully agreed.
Additionally: some folks like testing and want to test, a three part ammonia proofing after day ten is acceptable per this thread
that’s three pictures of ammonia over one 24 hour period, that mechanism aligns cheap test kits very well. For picture #2 don’t spike above .5 ppm, specifically don’t spike as high as he did, stop when the kit shows .5 max and if you do overspike it, don’t post the 2ppm reading anyway you’d do a water change and redo the test to a maximum .5 ppm reading for the second pic.
I recommend skipping all that, you can tell for 25 pages we have basic timing down and covered. But if you do decide to test, then that’s the only way we want to see it relayed here (removing test read errors is our whole intention is why) and for pic #2 do not input more ammonia than it takes to get a .5 maximum level for pic#2. You can skip it though, for sure your testless cycle will be ready in ten days or just round up to two weeks of stewing, it can’t fail.
darn good job on fish preps disease
yes on sponge filters they don’t bind meds, have high surface area and strong flow- through, fully agreed.
Additionally: some folks like testing and want to test, a three part ammonia proofing after day ten is acceptable per this thread
100% Water Change
So in my previous thread, I had an ammonia issue that was out of hand. As suggested, I did a 100% WC and now i’m wondering when I should start adding fish back. If anyone has suggestions, let me know!
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that’s three pictures of ammonia over one 24 hour period, that mechanism aligns cheap test kits very well. For picture #2 don’t spike above .5 ppm, specifically don’t spike as high as he did, stop when the kit shows .5 max and if you do overspike it, don’t post the 2ppm reading anyway you’d do a water change and redo the test to a maximum .5 ppm reading for the second pic.
I recommend skipping all that, you can tell for 25 pages we have basic timing down and covered. But if you do decide to test, then that’s the only way we want to see it relayed here (removing test read errors is our whole intention is why) and for pic #2 do not input more ammonia than it takes to get a .5 maximum level for pic#2. You can skip it though, for sure your testless cycle will be ready in ten days or just round up to two weeks of stewing, it can’t fail.