Fish Cycle

[Rissa]

My experience of cycling is i bought 4 platies, and put them in the new tank, at first they acted a bit listless, but they perked right up. The also bred in my tank. 2 weeks after, i brought all but one of the platies back, and got more fish after 2 weeks. I added fish slowly, but i have never tried fishless cycles.

[ZenZan]

Theres also Bio Spira For cycling. I've used it with great sucess

[lilmissmolly]

just be sure not to mention that at fishie forums they might blow up at you, I've found its far kinder to cycle without fish

www.fishieforums.co.uk/viewtopic.php?t=1112

[Pei]

I've used both methods, fish and fishless.

It is all preferences. Fishless cycle...less work. Fish cycle more work and can be cruel (it is how a person sees it).

When I have a pure new tank (never been used), I use fish less cycle. I used fish to cycle the 2 used tanks I got with used filter...used gravel. It speeds up a lot.

[ctfishguy]

One of my tens (the currently empty one) cycled in 3 days!!!!!! I couldn't believe it! I waited a few more day sfor the Ph to stabilize and i was done cycling, thats another reason why i like to fishless cycle and a reason why everyone should