Is one fire fish enough to keep a cycle going ?

[christwendt]

Hello I’m upgrading tanks and I’ve started my fish less cycle with ammonia and dr Tim’s. When it’s ready can I keep a cycle going with just one fire fish in a 100 gallon tank ? I have 70 lbs of rock.

 

[damsels are not mean]

Yep

 

[Dan_P]

Hello I’m upgrading tanks and I’ve started my fish less cycle with ammonia and dr Tim’s. When it’s ready can I keep a cycle going with just one fire fish in a 100 gallon tank ? I have 70 lbs of rock.

Unlikely that the bacteria will die with no fish.

 

[christwendt]

Unlikely that the bacteria will die with no fish.

It’s going to be about 6 months before I can add more fish and my corrals because I have some acros and a nem in old tank. So I plan to just let it continue to cycle and I ideally would like to just use my current fire fish.

 

[christwendt]

Yep

Thank you.

 

[damsels are not mean]

If you want instead you can just feed the tank or dose ammonia periodically to simulate a high bioload. Bacteria are pretty robust honestly it's hard to "crash" a cycle.

 

[christwendt]

If you want instead you can just feed the tank or dose ammonia periodically to simulate a high bioload. Bacteria are pretty robust honestly it's hard to "crash" a cycle.

That makes a lot of sense. I may do that instead of adding the fire fish. Thanks a lot

 

[Tamberav]

Hello I’m upgrading tanks and I’ve started my fish less cycle with ammonia and dr Tim’s. When it’s ready can I keep a cycle going with just one fire fish in a 100 gallon tank ? I have 70 lbs of rock.

you can keep the cycle going with no fish Bacteria will be fine. They could probably live off the skin particles floating in the air and landing in the tank...