Pure ammonia for fishless cycling

Pure ammonia will only list ammonia and water as ingredients. As the opposite to cycle an aquarium with fish, fishless cycling is more humane. No fish will die in the process. While there is more than one way to fishless cycling an aquarium, one of the fastest ways is to use pure ammonia. I have a certain bias towards using fish food or combining fish food with pure ammonia.

The conventional method of using a hardy fish to cycle a new tank has some disadvantages.

First, subjecting a fish, however hardy, to ammonia and nitrite stress may be unnecessarily cruel. To do a fishless cycle, start by getting pure , household ammonia and using an online ammonia cycling calculator to determine how much you should add to your tank. Then, add the right amount of ammonia to the tank water. Fishless cycling is a form of maturing an aquarium. Im thinking about doing a 55gallon aquarium so for the cycling process I just introduce pure ammonia.

We recommended pure ammonia products for fishless cycling. However, it can be done with hardy fish too (example: Zebra Danio) but not recommended really. Without heavy bacteria seeding from TSS, it is impossible to cycle your tank in a week or even a month with or without fish.

This video shows you how to properly start cycling your aquarium with pure ammonia. I show you how much ammonia to put. It is a slower and messier way to start aquarium nitrogen cycle. Dosing ammonia in a fishless cycle.

Very nice set with everything needed for fishless cycling (except the test kits). Provides a ton of ammonia and starter bacteria and instructions on how to start the cycling product. The only other required portion to cycle is a master test kit to check ammonia , ph, nitrite and nitrate.

Once you have identified your source of ammonia you are ready to start the fishless cycling process. Just follow these simple instructions. Add the ammonia to the tank a little at a time until you obtain a reading from your ammonia kit of ~ppm. Hey i use the fishless cycling method for my 10g tank by adding pure ammonia with no perfumes or surfacant. I had an ammonia spike then decline followed by a nitrite spike and decline followed by the nitrate spike and i then did a water change and waited hours before adding fish.

To use the fishless cycling method simply add 4-drops of pure ammonia per gallons of water to a fishless tank. Do this once a day until nitrite becomes measurable. At that point cut back to 2-drops per gallons of water, per day. When nitrite and ammonia are both at zero, and nitrate is measurable, the tank is cycled.

One should follow the above formula and general fishless cycling should take anywhere from 5-days.

How fast one can achieve a. Doing a fishless cycle uses a pure ammonia source instead. If you cannot easily obtain pure ammonia then cycling with fish may be the best alternative. On the other hand if ammonia is easily available then fishless cycling will allow you to have your aquaponic system running more quickly and eliminate some stress that could have been generated for you and your fish. All that is needed to start the Nitrogen Cycle and begin the building of beneficial nitrifying bacteria is ammonia. It’s critical to use pure ammonia.

More specifically, it needs to only contain water and ammonia (usually around ammonia ) with no dyes or soaps (known as surfactants). Using no fish, instead a liquid ammonia must be added and monitored. Ensure the ammonia is pure , that. You can also use fish foo but in my experience it is really messy and gets everywhere. Congratulations on successfully completing the fishless tank cycling process.

Seed your new tank with something from a disease free, well established tropical fish tank. Dose ammonia at teaspoon per 10-gallons to start. The ammonia method is quicker and for the main advantage in my opinion cleaner.

Most people use fish to cycle their aquarium. However, a kinder, more efficient and quicker way of cycling an aquarium can be done by using pure ammonia and no fish whatsoever. As is true with any cycling metho there are both pros and cons associated with the fishless cycling method. The speed of the fishless cycle is one of its major advantages.

To cycle a tank with starter fish usually takes between 4-weeks. However, the fishless cycling method introduces far more ammonia into the aquarium an therefore, larger. Ammonium chloride in an easy to use dropper bottle for fishless cycling.

You need to find pure ammonia that does not contain any additives such as detergents or scents. I found this forum) One reply I got said that it sounded like too much and that he only uses teasp. In the beginning I put teasp. All it takes to some kind of an ammonia source.

This can be a raw shrimp (or prawn) bought from a fishmonger, or your local supermarket, thrown in the tank or some fish food added to the tank to kick-start the ammonia generation. Make sure it says 1 Ammonia 2) Make sure it is not scented. Get my tank tomorrow so want to get the fishless cycle in process as soon as possible. I have read that it is quite hard to get hold of pure ammonia , can anyone point me in the right direction please.

Found this on ebay, any good?