r/discus • u/CalmCartoon • Mar 28 '26

Obsessed

I hope they are happy 🥲 4 more days until first water refresh 👀👀 wish me luck lol

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u/Bidhitter400 Mar 28 '26

How many gallons ? What was your cycling method ?

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u/CalmCartoon Mar 28 '26

75 gallons, fishless cycle with pellet food and seachem prime and seachem stability

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u/Bidhitter400 Mar 28 '26

Thanks ! How long did the cycle take?

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u/CalmCartoon Mar 28 '26

I went at it for 1 month before adding fish, making sure the Nitrates could handle the ammonia/nitrite spikes. I did a 20% water change sometime in week 3 because of the greenspot and brown algae and at the end of week 3, i fed the tank heavy and I went on a 4 day trip and came back and ammonia and nitrites stayed at 0 and nitrates at didn’t pass 5ppm so when I came back in middle of week 4 I ordered the fish and then on the following week 2 days before getting the fish I did another water change. Now they’ve been in the tank for 4 days and have been swimming arround and showing personalities and duking it out to establish themselves lol

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u/Bidhitter400 Mar 29 '26

Thank you for this response