new year, new seahorse build!!!!!!(many pictuers)

good plan; still a little annoyed by cycling with fish though...

 

I agree. Just start the cycle using ammonium chloride or put some food in the tank to decay and produce the ammonia for the cycle.

 

ya i knew i was going to start a fight on here by saying that but im useing manly baserock and i dont enought food for that. i thinki it would be cheeper just to do that

 

It's not a fight, but a discussion. I think peeps always try to educated when they see people cycling with live. It's an old-school technique, and really is outdated and has been replaced by easier, healthier and safer ways.

A table shrimp is cheaper....

And what are you going to do when you can't get it back out? Tear apart the tank to catch him? He's not even remotely acceptable as a tankmate, especially given the size of your tank.

You're also looking at captive bred seahorses.... you wanna put an un-quarantined, potentially cootie-filled wild caught fish in there?

 

ya thats the only reason im thinking about not getting one. its hard to beleave that 1 year and 3 days ago i bought my favoirt fish, a blue damsal. and im all dispressed today becuse he got sick about a week ago and passed today. but the shrimp ia agood idea, ill have my parents try to find some it might be hard becuse were in the midwest sooo ya. and i am buying captive bred from pekas ponies. she is a local breder with a huge rep of being great.;D

 

Cootie filled !!!! I love that! +1

I do agree with you 100 percent, just use some pure ammonia, or a table shrimp, all of which are really cheap. Cycling with live fish is just cruel, especialyl when there are so many other viable options.

Plus seahorsese are not easily kept, and your right introducing an not qt fish is a recipe for disaster

 

im not going to have anything else in the tank but the horses. also im useing 75 percent base rock to cycal that tank thats why i was thinking about useing a damsal. and as soon as the cycal is over im probaly going to put that rock back into my pest free 26

 

i already have a QT set up im just looking for meds. or peka might do if for me if i ask here. im still about a month and a half away befor i feel safe putting them in. theis is a huge investment for me

 

Can you explain this a little more indepth, I'm not quite sure I understand what your plan is.... or maybe it's just the logic of it that I'm unsure of.

 

right now i have the tank filled with saltwater and sand. im going to order about 23 or 25pounds or rock from reefcleners. next is to just take out a few pounds out of my 26. after the cycal is over im going to take the rock that was in my 26and put it back into my 26. i will leave some liverock from my 26 in this tank for the baserock to get stuff growing on it.