cycling too early

This is a long story so bare with me. I originally owned a small square tank with two equally small fish a minnow and a small orange no longer than 2 inches. I’d had them for about a year and the other day I noticed one had disappeared, this is when I saw that the minnow was dead under the...

Hello TFF, So I have a 5-gallon tank set.  I knew a little about the cycling process before but now with all the disasters it seems like I've had to do a whole lot more research.  So I was reading that you can set your tank up plug in the filter and let it sit for a day and let the fish...