Its hard to tell without knowing your perameters. A better filter system would also be a great improvement. The cycle will not hurt anything. Prime is a good dechlorinator as well. Thank you all so much for your help. The tank is 20 gallon. I will keep using cycle I guess at water changes if it won't hurt the fish.
I got a test kit, but it doesn't do the nitrate here are the results: Nitrite - 0. Filters - One Aquaclear filter which hangs off the back of the tank, it says it is for tanks up to 30 gallons and it has carbon and a sponge in it. Also one undergravel filter, with a power head, which bubbles. The algae eater was being fed algae wafers, but the new one hasn't been fed yet because there is quite a bit of algae in the tank and he seems to be happy enough eating it.
I plan on switching him to wafers once he has cleaned most of the algae up. The fish store has always told me to add nutrafin cycle and Aqua-plus at all water changes. I know that the Aqua-plus is completely essential, but I am unsure if the cycle is necessary once the nitrogen cycle has been started. Thank you for all of your help thumbs Thank you for all of your help thumbs2: Dont use the nutrafin cycle anymore.
What is the ph, ammonia,nitrite, nitrate of the water from your tap? After you dechlor of coarse? What fish died and what symptoms did they have when they died? How long ago was this? How long were they in your tank before they died? You aren't doing anything wrong, certainly nothing immediately harmful to your fish, by adding Cycle after a water change.
You are, however, spending a lot of money for Cycle, which isn't cheap. After your tank is established there is no need to continue adding a product like Cycle or Smart Start, even during regular water changes. The only reason you might begin dosing your tank with Cycle or similar again would be if you experienced some sort of 'crash' that destroyed the biological filter and you needed to re-establish the bacteria in the tank.
Something like a drunk buddy or your nephew pouring some strange brew in the tank that kills everyone, or maybe after dosing the tank with a lot of medications that could kill the biological filtration. I've literally added whole bottles of Cycle to a tank with no visible effects on the livestock, but its unnecessary in an established tank and I suspect the person at the fish store who told you to add it after each water change was either a bit misguided or maybe embellishing on its usefulness hoping that you'd buy a lot of Cycle from them.
Your nitrites are high 1. They are just as deadly as ammonia. Water changes are the best way to lower it. Is that a liquid test kit? Those test strips are notoriously inaccurate! You need to keep watch on ammonia,nitrites and and nitrates. Ph is important too but as long as its stable its fine. Acts in tank water to keep aquarium and fish healthy It releases an amount of the beneficial bacteria into your aquarium that prevents fish loss It's safe for plants, animals and humans and impossible to overdose Provides clear, odour free, high quality water.
Check more product details at Amazon. Instructions for use. Make sure you shake the concentration well before use When you want to set up a new aquarium, mix 10 ml of nutrafin cycle and 10 gallons of water. Repeat these directions every 7 days for 2 weeks. Switch to a weekly maintenance dosage by adding 5 ml of the liquid to 10 gallons of water. Use over three days, using 25ml per 38 Litres 10 US G. After water changes, filter maintenance or weekly dose - 5ml per 38 Litres 10 US G.
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SidKarver Feeder Fish. MFK Member. Feb 7, 84 0 0 Gone fishin Has anyone here ever used Nutrafin Cycle? I just filled my new gal. The temp is still cold, about 59deg. I haven't added any de-chlorinator, or the N-Cycle nor fish, needless to say. The details are a bit fuzzy to me
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