Fishless Cycling, Cycling, Cycled!

[rdd1952]

Congratulations. Neons could eventually be an iffy proposition with the angel. They are the natural prey of angels in the wild and could become food for them later on. Some people say thy have had good luck with keeping them together when they were both bought small and basically grew up together but it's still risky.

 

[backtotropical]

Congratulations Luke.

I'm glad to help you out any time. I agree with RDD on the angels / neons thing. If you want to keep angels, a safer bet is a larger tetra like a Rummy Nose Tetra. Just a suggestion.

Cheers and good luck with your newly cycled tank.

BTT

 

[OldMan47]

I agree the neons don't work well with the angels once the angels start to grow up. I put them together when I set up my present community tank and they were great together the first year or so. After that the number of neons just started dropping slowly. Even now some of the faster neons have survived but a better option is black neons. They get a little bigger than neons or cardinals so they don't look so much like food to an angel. An adult angel can easily be 6 inches tall and a half inch thick, they are big fish so you need to keep that in mind.

 

[lukejwindsor]

Duly noted.

I've just picked up my first fish! 10x Rosy Tetras (hilarious little things, full of character - only been in there a few hours and the males are already pestering the females continually) and 5x Albino Cories. Any general advice on these?

I figure I'll see how these get along before adding any others, including the centrepiece angel. Would love to hear others' thoughts on what else to get.

Cheers!

 

[rabbut]

Congratulations on the fishless cycle completion, and the addition of your first new fish

All sounds good so far . I won't advise on further fish, as this is something I'm not particularly good at I'm afraid.

All the best
Rabbut

 

[raptorrex]

From my experience, a water change won't hurt the cycle and could actually help.

Correct. Bignose explains it well in the linked thread below, if you're interested.

[URL="http/www.fishforums.net/content/forum/22...cling-Are-Good/"]http/www.fishforums.net/content/forum/22...cling-Are-Good/[/URL]

however the reasoning behind the actions of p&j, is not the same as the evedence in the linked thread. looking at the evedence from bignose, its clear that this system does indeed speed up the cycle, but by two days in twenty one. there seems no evedence that it is in anyway better than the traditional method, just faster, and then only by 10%. indeed the thrust of the thread is to try and maintain the minimum of toxic chemicals in the tank, whilst not harming the cycle speed, something that is academic in a fishless cycle. which ever way you do it, the tank will cycle, if two days is worth so much, then the water change system will do the trick, but it must be remembered that the none water change system, will still give you just as good a cycle.