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Does anyone at WWM have experience with fishless cycling?

April 26, 2017cycling experience fishless wwm

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Does anyone at WWM have experience with fishless cycling?

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Greetings , I read with great interest the Fishless Cycling article and wanted to share my diary with you and possibly get some feedback. My wife is the fish person while my involvement is setup and cycling. I have a broad mechanical/fabrication background and am enjoying learning about aquarium plumbing and function. We already have a 10 gallon setup that we will use as a hospital tank that currently contains 2 Cichlids. It turns out our well water is a natural for them ( Non chlorinated, high hardness/high pH). We recently acquired a 2′ x 2′ x 8′ 200+ gallon aquarium free(should have been my first clue) from our neighbor. It was up and running until I moved it to our home on 6/1. After 2 weeks of work refinishing the base, building a new canopy, beefing up foundation, polishing scratches in acrylic tank, re plumbing pump and filters and overhauling the under gravel filter it was time to fill and cycle.