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Hi, would like to get some hardy fishes to start of to help me cycle my tank..

ANY RECOMMENDATIONS???? :rolleyes:

I dun think it a gd idea to use fish to cycle tank. U should only add LS after cycling.

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Hi, would like to get some hardy fishes to start of to help me cycle my tank..

ANY RECOMMENDATIONS???? :rolleyes:

Hi,

To start you cycle, you can throw in a few pellets or 1/5 cube of mysis shrimp. Don't need to use livestock to start the cycle.

HTH ;)

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Dead Fish will be hardy. lol.

I hope you mean you have already cycled your tank and hope to get some hardy fishes to start off with so as to minimise heavy loss in buying expensive fish. You can start off with some corals and see whether they are doing well....then follow by inverts and then fishes. Just my 2 cents worth advice. All the best.

Tank : 4 X 2 X 2 with low iron front panel and external overflow

Skimmer : BK SM200 with waste collector

Return Pumps : Red Dragon 6m3 and Ehiem 1262

FR : 2 X Deltec 509 & powered by AB2000

Nitrate Filter : Deltec NF 509 and tee off from AB2000

Calcium R'tor : Deltec PF 501 with RM secondary chamber

Kalkwasser R'tor : Deltec KM500

Chiller : Pansonic 1 HP Compressor with 20m titanium Coil

Wave Makers : 4 X Tunze 6055 with 7096 & Vortec MP40w

Controller : GHL Profilux

Lighting : ATI Powermodule 10 or 8 tubes

Water Top-up : Water Top-Up tank powered by Tunze Osmolator

External Monitor : American Pinpoint pH and Temp. Monitor for main tank and GHL Profilux Controller to measure temp, pH, Redox

Ozonizer : Sander C50

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Hi,

To start you cycle, you can throw in a few pellets or 1/5 cube of mysis shrimp. Don't need to use livestock to start the cycle.

HTH ;)

Here's a write up on fishless cycling for your information - http://www.fishchannel.com/fishkidz/beginn...ss-cycling.aspx

HTH ;)

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try not to use fish for cycling. very inhumane.

however if ur lookign for hardy beginner fishes after u cycled, u can try cardinals, clowns, royal gramma. maybe even a shrimp or two ;)

i dont recommend damsels and dottybacks as ur beginner fishes because they will get very aggressive and adding new tank mates will be abit of a hassle later on. i think most of us have been tru that :pinch: i still have my blue damsel from my early days. if u do have a soft spot for damsels and dottybacks, can try adding them last. when all ur other fish hav settled in nciely

u can read the articles posted in this forum re. cycling tank.

happy to help =)

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cheap and nice will be chromis.

Tank : 4 X 2 X 2 with low iron front panel and external overflow

Skimmer : BK SM200 with waste collector

Return Pumps : Red Dragon 6m3 and Ehiem 1262

FR : 2 X Deltec 509 & powered by AB2000

Nitrate Filter : Deltec NF 509 and tee off from AB2000

Calcium R'tor : Deltec PF 501 with RM secondary chamber

Kalkwasser R'tor : Deltec KM500

Chiller : Pansonic 1 HP Compressor with 20m titanium Coil

Wave Makers : 4 X Tunze 6055 with 7096 & Vortec MP40w

Controller : GHL Profilux

Lighting : ATI Powermodule 10 or 8 tubes

Water Top-up : Water Top-Up tank powered by Tunze Osmolator

External Monitor : American Pinpoint pH and Temp. Monitor for main tank and GHL Profilux Controller to measure temp, pH, Redox

Ozonizer : Sander C50

UV : Corallife 6x

Algae Scrubbler

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cheap and nice will be chromis.

But never damsels... :eyebrow:

1ft cube with IOS [the low tech tank]

1. JBJ C-breeze to keep temp hovering around 27-28'C

2. LED clip on - 120 bulbs

-skimmer-less-

My 3 humble equipments that keeps my tank running... [DRIED OUT]

1. The RSM itself of course 2.My NEW Deltec MCE-300 Skimmer 3. My trusty Arctica Chiller

Tank parameters:

Temperature maintained at 25.3'C to 24.7'C

No3: 10ppm(b4 the use of the deltec skimmer)

No3: 5ppm (after use of the skimmer)

Others? too lazy to measure...LOL

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my 3 spot damsel died when the scallop i had died and polluted the water.

so sad... it was king in my tank.

Listen to the pros.. damsels will take over your tank.

size does not matter!

FOWLR Tank : Decom

Invert Tank: Decom

Current Tank: 2 ft with 2ft sump, 2 pyjama Cardinals, 1 Watchman Goby, 8 sand gobies, common saltwater shrimps, 3 turbo snails. 1 super green paly

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if u wan to add damsels can. but add it as ur last fish. that way all existing fishes will have their little slice of the tank to call their own. if u add the damsel first, the whole tank will be his.

thats why it is wise to plan the order in which to add ur fishes.

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Surprisingly, my yellowtail damsel although is the first fish, he gets bullied by the my other fishes... cos they are all bigger than him :rolleyes:

yellowtail damsel is one of the least aggressive damsels. the changing damsels (genus neoglyphidodon) are one of the most aggressive.

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More articles on fishless tank cycling.

http://fishwhisperer.homestead.com/articles.html

http://saltaquarium.about.com/cs/bionitrog.../a/aa042403.htm

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