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[honda]

Well end of day 3 and my neons look alomost bluer then the ones in my 30 gallon witch are verry healthy so I think that my tank did not get affected by the ammonia well what a break for me I will keep you all updated how the next 4 days go.

[honda]

Well tommarow will be a week and the neons are doing great lovly coler and just healthey looking fish so I don't know if I just got lucky or else the ammonia had the ingretiants wrong so I don't know I'm just verry happy!!!!!

[honda]

Well its ben over a week and I added a couple oto's and a bolivian ram from my 10 gallon and they are doing great I added co2 and I I'm wating on the plants to get here and the water isent foaming or bubbling except my filter being crazy strong I have that problem on a other post but do you think I just got lucky or what please tell me what you think???
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[sepgundamrg]

I have no clue, I think you got lucky. I once got a little soap in my tank... before I found the wonders of the inter net, so I just did several large water changes and it ended up OK also. Well by OK I mean the current fish(singular died) so I got 2 new ones and put them in the same water and they are still with me 2 months later.
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[honda]

I did a 70% an a 50% water change and I think its all good well I will keep you all updated
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[Leepo21]

I used Homebase fine- but with no shaking- if it works for so many without the foam I should think it works with it too. Also won't it settle?

[diademhill]

[flacmanst]

I am in the process of a fishless cycle using clear ammonia. I think that even if you used ammonia with surficants and detergents you are really only adding a very small amount to the tank AND you repeatedly diluted with the water changes.

Of course, the neon survival rate going forward is the real test, but generally a toxic presence in the tank is rapidly fatal. When I was a kid my friend had a 40gallon cicchlid tank and his little brother dumped Comet detergent or something like that in there and the effects were immediate.

[diademhill]

The surfactants will prevent the bacteria growing and so defeat the purpose of a fishless cycle plus you don't do water changes during a fishless cycle.

Why take stupid risks?

[flacmanst]

Agreed, but in this case it seems to be okay. I would have probably emptied, cleaned, started over.

Don't you do a water change at the end of the cycle? To lower/remove nitrates before introducing fish?