A Little Idea..

[Delloy12]

I was looking in my cupboard and I found a fish treatment called methylene blue and it says on the box that it neutralizes nitrate in the tank. Could I use this to speed up my fishless cycle?

 

[swanseastilo]

Nope you cant sorry.

 

[Delloy12]

Ah well, It doesn't matter.

 

[XeroTolerance]

I don't think so but good idea though.

 

[MBOU]

Brilliant treatment for bathing fish in for 5-10 mins but it has a delightful side effect of wiping out a good deal of bacteria in the filter. A nice mature tank might withstand it and cycle through but tbh... i wont ever try it again for sure. Use it regularly when acclimatising new fish though.

 

[XeroTolerance]

Brilliant treatment for bathing fish in for 5-10 mins but it has a delightful side effect of wiping out a good deal of bacteria in the filter. A nice mature tank might withstand it and cycle through but tbh... i wont ever try it again for sure. Use it regularly when acclimatising new fish though.

What are you talking about? Do you mean the fish bath I was talking about in the other thread. If so than you didn't read it correctly. I said to take a gallon OUT of the tank and put it into a bucket.

 

[Delloy12]

The methylene blue gives the fish a "bath"

 

[XeroTolerance]

Ah I see. Thanks for the info I thought it was something else.

 

[MBOU]

maybe no one else treats fish outside of the tank?

Meth Blue is great if the fish has a mild fungal/bacterial/parasite problem but its no good for putting in tanks as it kills the bacteria in the filter...

So you take out water from the tank (into a bucket or something), add the meth blue (double/triple dose), stir, add fish, wait 5-10 minutes then pop fish back into tank...

Or when acclimatising new fish... add a drop or two to the bag the fish is acclimatising in and dont put that water in the tank.

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Put simply... the answer is 'no' it wont cycle your filter, just screw up the cycle

 

[Delloy12]

Methylene blue is used for A LOT of stuff from fish treatment to dye

 

[XeroTolerance]

Yeah that sounds similar to what I was referring to except you use salt instead of that.