Confuzedd

I spent a good 10 minutes looking at the hundreds of labels in the cleaning aisle in wall-mart. *ding*, then I saw "Goldex Household ammonia, I got all excited; Contains no Phosphates or fragrances; "For all-purpose household cleaning, laundry, wax stripping and stain removal"

"FIRST AID TREATMENT: This product contains ammonia. If swallowed... etc. etc."

So I got home, since the bottle was not clear, I poured some into an empty water bottle, shaked it, voila!!!! It foams! But the foams disappeared in a few seconds.

*HAIR PULL!* What do you think?? Yay or Nay?

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Lucy

I've always read that it shouldn't foam.
I went and shook te bottle of ammonia I used to cycle (with funny looks from my husband lol)
There's a couple bubbles, but no foam.

Edit:
From this thread:
Ammonia instructions for a fishless cycle

Confuzedd

Ok let me upload the youtube vid with me shaking the bottle...

okay, this should be the link, I don't know how long it will take for it for youtube to process:

whisper

Hey. What's this all about? Putting ammonia in a tank? Why? I never heard about this. Someone explain please.

fish_newbie

He is trying to cycle a tank with pure ammonia instead of fish or fishless cycle

Time

Hey you have the same floor I do if it is linoleum. What are the benefits of cycling your tank with ammonia?

Confuzedd

It's just the more humane way of doing it, since subjecting your fish to high levels of ammonia during the cycling will harm the fish. When the fish get stressesd out, it increases the chances of the fish sprouting out diseases such as ICH.

Now I'm not too sure, but a lot of fish might die after the completion of the cycling period. In other words, you could save money. The biggest pian though, is finding the right kind of ammonia

It might also be quicker to cycle, since you have full control of the ammonia levels.

Basically, it boils down:

1) Putting in pure ammonia into your fish tank. Just the right amount so you have roughly 2.0 to 5.0 PPM after testing with a kit.

2) Then you wait (probably several days), for the ammonia levels in your fish tank to reach at least 0.25 ppm, and then you add more ammonia to bring it back up to 2 to 5 ppm.

3) You keep repeating this cycle. On another forum I frequent, they mention that you are well cycled if 2.0 ppm of ammonia reaches 0 in less than 12 hours.

I could be missing a whole bunch of other details, such as measuring nitrites. So don't take my quick guide as the "everything you'll need to know"

aquarist48

I wish I could help you Confuzedd but I've never used it myself.
Ken

small_fry

ok thats not what i wrote...

Dont i know it!! and they very few other members has listed i cant get in Australia darn it!!! so frustrating isnt it!!?? ya try to do the right thing...

Thats what i said but it bleeped out the first few words and i dont know why?? i know i swear alot but 'dont i know' didnt seem that bad to me lol

Also edited by Ken

Shawnie

It was "bleeped" because this is a family friendly site with allot of young members and language has to be very careful

Lucy

Since you're having problems finding the right kind of ammonia, You can use a peice of raw shrimp. Put it in a mesh bag and hang it in the tank and let nature do it's thing.

Shawnie

Im making guess here as ive never used the ammonia method, but this looks like the right stuff ....it has bubbles in the vid but no foam what do you think lucy?

Amanda

I don't think that that is what someone would call foam. I think it's just the air bubbles that you're causing. Even water does that.

Lucy

Yeah, I agree, it looks like bubbles not foam.
Foam would look soapy.

Love that you wrote toxic on the bottle. That's so important.

Nate McFin

If you already have tanks ready to go you can use some of the old filter media to seed the new tank. You can also "silent cycle" with lots of plants.

small_fry

But it bleeped out "Dont i know it" thats not bad is it?? sorry if it is i will watch my mouth / fingers, im a bogan its just habit lol sorry again.

Lucy

This thread got very confusing and strayed away from the original topic.
small_frys questions and the answers given have been moved to a thread of it's own.
It can be found here:
Cycling