fishless cycling question....

[disco]

I am putting some goldfish in a new tank in 3 weeks. I intend on
fishless cyling it about 5 days before I put the fish in. My question
is, can I go ahead and add water (from my garden hose, not
dechlorinated), now and let it sit until 5 days before I fishless
cycle it? Do I have to have my filters and air pumps running during
this time as well?

I dont want to mess up the fishless cycling by using water straight
from the garden hose, so I was wondering if I could put the water in
the tank early and let it dechlorinate before I began to fishless
cycle?

TVYM
D.

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why not use dechlor??? you will have to when doing water changes during the cycling.

it takes more than 5 days to cycle a tank, fishless or not.
Ingrid

(disco) wrote:

>I am putting some goldfish in a new tank in 3 weeks. I intend on
>fishless cyling it about 5 days before I put the fish in. My question
>is, can I go ahead and add water (from my garden hose, not
>dechlorinated), now and let it sit until 5 days before I fishless
>cycle it? Do I have to have my filters and air pumps running during
>this time as well?
>
>I dont want to mess up the fishless cycling by using water straight
>from the garden hose, so I was wondering if I could put the water in
>the tank early and let it dechlorinate before I began to fishless
>cycle?
>
>TVYM
>D.



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disco wrote:

> I am putting some goldfish in a new tank in 3 weeks. I intend on
> fishless cyling it about 5 days before I put the fish in.

It's gonna take longer to fishless cycle than that... Figure 20-30 days.

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