hello
well it seems with the help of my LFS i'm doing a fish-in cycle
heres the story,
got new 250l tank 9 days ago, set it up,filled with water and put a few real plants in along with plant fertilizer, then i put in nutrafin aqua plus, then put nutrafin cycle in for about 5 days, then last friday took water to LFS (as he said will be ready for fish after a few days) and he said it was fine for "hardy fish" so he sold me 5 x zebra danios, 6 x tiger barbs, 6 x black widow tetras and 2 dalmatian mollies.
so i put them all in last friday along with some marimo moss balls, everything seems fine and the fish seem happy, the water is pretty much clear now also, it was a bit cloudy over the weekend.
i haven't done a water change yet as LFS said i don't need too..
well after now reading the forums i realise i should have done a fishless cycle
so i got a API master test kit to have a look at the levels, what do you guys think about the levels in my pic? when should i do water change?
i just don't want the fishies to suffer
well it seems with the help of my LFS i'm doing a fish-in cycle
heres the story,
got new 250l tank 9 days ago, set it up,filled with water and put a few real plants in along with plant fertilizer, then i put in nutrafin aqua plus, then put nutrafin cycle in for about 5 days, then last friday took water to LFS (as he said will be ready for fish after a few days) and he said it was fine for "hardy fish" so he sold me 5 x zebra danios, 6 x tiger barbs, 6 x black widow tetras and 2 dalmatian mollies.
so i put them all in last friday along with some marimo moss balls, everything seems fine and the fish seem happy, the water is pretty much clear now also, it was a bit cloudy over the weekend.
i haven't done a water change yet as LFS said i don't need too..
well after now reading the forums i realise i should have done a fishless cycle
so i got a API master test kit to have a look at the levels, what do you guys think about the levels in my pic? when should i do water change?
i just don't want the fishies to suffer