Joined
·
432 Posts
Greetings-
We're relatively new to freshwater fishkeeping. A few months ago we set up a 36 gallon community aquarium. The cycling, due much to our own errors, took about 6 weeks to complete. Happily this tank is now thriving with rasporas, rainbowfish, corys, tetras, and such. It wasn't long before we became obsessed with the idea of a large African rift lake tank, and we had soon purchased a 75 gallon tank for such a habitat. We purchased a sponge filter and kept it running in our little tank for around 3 weeks. After getting our large tank set up with accoutrements, we added the sponge filter along with an old carbon filter from the established tank. After adding our first batch of cichlids (Hap Ahli, Red Peacock, Eureka Red Peacock, OB Peacock, and Maylandi Peacock) we started our daily water tests (amm, nitrite, nitrate). 2 weeks in we had seen zero rise in ammonia, zero nitrites, and at around 17 days we started to see the nitrates rise. Could it be that our tank is cycled?
Many thanks for any input, your forum has been invaluable to us thus far. Here we go!
We're relatively new to freshwater fishkeeping. A few months ago we set up a 36 gallon community aquarium. The cycling, due much to our own errors, took about 6 weeks to complete. Happily this tank is now thriving with rasporas, rainbowfish, corys, tetras, and such. It wasn't long before we became obsessed with the idea of a large African rift lake tank, and we had soon purchased a 75 gallon tank for such a habitat. We purchased a sponge filter and kept it running in our little tank for around 3 weeks. After getting our large tank set up with accoutrements, we added the sponge filter along with an old carbon filter from the established tank. After adding our first batch of cichlids (Hap Ahli, Red Peacock, Eureka Red Peacock, OB Peacock, and Maylandi Peacock) we started our daily water tests (amm, nitrite, nitrate). 2 weeks in we had seen zero rise in ammonia, zero nitrites, and at around 17 days we started to see the nitrates rise. Could it be that our tank is cycled?
Many thanks for any input, your forum has been invaluable to us thus far. Here we go!