MRSkz Posted June 9, 2005 Report Share Posted June 9, 2005 Ok now ya'll I've done my reading so I'm not compleatly uninformed THIS TIME lol. Now I've set up my 3 foot tank, gave it a few days with plants and a couple of buckets of water from my mature tank before adding my 9 little guppies. Now the amonia is off the scales but the nitites are fine so do I really need to worry as the tank has only been set up for 4-5 days. I've also just added heaters today, as I didn't realize till lastnight the old heater I had blew a fuse trying to heat the entier tank all by itself. Not sure if this might have something to do with the amonia going up so much since I checked it 2 days ago. All help appriciated Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
suphew Posted June 9, 2005 Report Share Posted June 9, 2005 9 fish even if small is still a lot to cycle a tank with, any how it sounds pretty normal otherwise, just do daily water changes (10-20%) to keep the amonia under control and it should be fine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MRSkz Posted June 9, 2005 Author Report Share Posted June 9, 2005 Thanks for that. I had to do that with my 2footer when the nitrites tried to take over. It's finally settled down and I decide to go and set up another tank lol. :roll: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HummingBird Posted June 9, 2005 Report Share Posted June 9, 2005 I think 9 small guppies should be fine for cycling a tank, especially one that size. They aren't going to produce very much waste, especially since they're just small and you want to build up the good bacteria in the filter to a substantial amount. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
suphew Posted June 10, 2005 Report Share Posted June 10, 2005 I would say that the fact his amonia is off the scale would prove you wrong. If the bacteria is supplied as much food (amonia) as it can process adding more food wont increase the growth rate it will just make the water more toxic, which is why the amonia level so high. The ideal is to increase the fish numbers (and therefore the food for the bacteria) inline with the increase of bacteria. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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