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Originally Posted by soup
Have googled for aquarium cycling and there seems
to be 301,000 different opinions on how to do it.
A straw poll, how many believe in the chemical
approach and how many in hardy fish and does
anyone have a method involving black cats and
ouija boards  ?.
As I understand it "cycling" is too get the level
of good bacteria up so they can "eat" fish waste
and convert it into nitrites then convert these
nitrites to nitrates.
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yours S
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I use Nutrafin Cycle, to add good bacteria to my tank. I bump the temperature up to 28 Celsius and add a touch off fish food. This kick starts the cycle process. I've found the advantages of a fishless cycle are. I don't get stuck with fish I don't really like e.g "hardy fish" and no matter how hardy they still suffer from stress during the cycling period. I've managed to cycle a 50g tank in 4 weeks using my method.
TheWizardHunter