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slingham64
03-13-2007, 02:52 AM
Well after a week of my nitrites spiking, i just tested an got a result of zero, am I ready for fish?
Drumachine09
03-13-2007, 02:53 AM
Do a water change, and you are set! Con-g's!
sergo
03-13-2007, 03:07 AM
yeap your pretty much done.
do you have your fishy wish list ready?
Drumachine09
03-13-2007, 03:08 AM
do you have your fishy wish list ready?


Of course he does....lol. Everyone does!
sergo
03-13-2007, 03:26 AM
Of course he does....lol. Everyone does!yeah, true. it's probably a pretty long list too ;)
Gelo_USA
03-13-2007, 03:34 AM
just remenber not to add all of them at once...
slingham64
03-13-2007, 03:36 AM
yeap your pretty much done.
do you have your fishy wish list ready?

I've had it written down for weeks. 2 Platy's, 4 Zebra Danio's an 3 Cory's. An 3 Ghost shrimp for some fun. I'm excited. Gonna get the Danio's tomorrow. Start with the hardiest of the fish.
Chrona
03-13-2007, 03:37 AM
No with fishless cycling, if you added ammonia to 5 ppm like instructed, you can add all or almost all your fish at once. Just to be on the safe side, only add 3/4 of them I guess. f1oored tested this once.
sergo
03-13-2007, 03:41 AM
this is true. his results were very surprising. i had some similar results but i didn't put as many fish as he did in. i probably would wait on the shrimp and cories as you don't have the algae for them to "graze" on yet. they tend to be scavengers.
Drumachine09
03-13-2007, 03:43 AM
Wait a week for the shrimp and cories. You could probobly get 10 shrimp. I had 4 sucsesfully in a 2.35 gallon. They are fun to watch, and they devlop some pretty sweet looking color spots.
Chrona
03-13-2007, 03:47 AM
Careful with ghost shrimp though. They tend to get eaten by any fish with a mouth large enough fit around them...
slingham64
03-13-2007, 06:28 AM
Wait a week for the shrimp and cories. You could probobly get 10 shrimp. I had 4 sucsesfully in a 2.35 gallon. They are fun to watch, and they devlop some pretty sweet looking color spots.

Come on guys... you under estimate my knowledge! i wasn't plannin on putting them all in at the same time, i was thinkin the danios tomorrow... maybe week- week an a half the platys, then another two weeks the corys. we'll see how my algae's looking though. I was lookin at my tank an there's two green spots on one of my rocks, guessin that's the start of some algae??
kimmers318
03-13-2007, 11:38 AM
If you did a fishless cycle as mentioned, you can add most of your fish all at once because right now you have a buttload of good bacteria, way more than what the fish should create to counter it. Go ahead and get all of the danios and platy's. Any good bacteria that you don't need for that stocking is just going to die off and have to regrow as your stocking gets larger later, the over abundance of good bacteria will not hang around waiting for a full stocking load. If you want the cories now go ahead with those also......IF YOU DID FULL FISHLESS CYCLE. There is no need to wait for algae, cory are not really algae cleaners, they will snuffle around the bottom of the tank looking for bits and pieces. Make sure you do bring them home some type of bottome feeder food, veg tabs, algae wafers etc with greens in them as they will prefer these over the flake. Shrimp pellets are greedily taken by all fish and those will sink also.
I would hold off on the ghosties though as they tend to be a bit more sensitive and this is still a tender tank. If anything goes wrong at all you will lose the ghosties. IMO they aren't that hardy anyway since they are basically raised as feeders, not as pets.
Enjoy your new tank!