holiday

[falco]

just realised that just as my tank will cycle i am going on holiday for a week.what do you think the best way of keeping the ammonia going into water would be while i was gone.

[Bill M.]

I would use Ammo-Lock.. it neutalizes the ammonia, but it doesnt remove it so that the bacteria can eat it..... good stuff

[falco]

sorry,i have done a fishless cycle and when i go on holiday there will be no source of ammonia for my tank.

[RobbieG]

How close is your cycle to being complete?

If you are still adding ammonia daily you may be able to use a shrimp peel to keep the ammonia up while you are gone.

[falco]

about a week away.could get some fish in and have someone feed them but to be honest i wouldnt trust anyone to do it properly.unless if it would be possible to add a pleco and have algae wafers/drops etc for feeding.good chance there would be no food left over as its a new tank with no algae yet.

[Masafi]

Delay your Holiday!! be a real pitty to get so far and then watch it go backwards.... :)

[elmer]

I will be in the same boat soon. I am not setting my expectations too high. When I get back from holiday, whatever state the tank is in, I'll fix it. At least there are no fish in it yet, so no one is suffering. Plus I wouldn't want to miss the first week of fish by having someone else do it.

The shrimp peel sounds like a good idea. I also saw in another thread that someone buried a dead fish from the grocery store. Sounds a little weird, though.

[cocoa_pleco]

if you have more tanks vacuum the tanks gravel, then add the waste to the cycling tank for ammonia. i even cycle my tank like that

[falco]

if no fish are recommended then i will maybe try shrimp while i am away or tp the tank up with amm chlor,thats what i have been using.just bought another internal filter for tank,that should help with everything