cycling

what is cycling?????

 

See this thread Posted: Mon Apr 12, 2004 6:55 pm Post subject: cycle my tank??

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It's the process of giving the beneficial bacteria that converts ammonia (toxic) to nitrIte (toxic) to nitrAte (not toxic below 20ppm) a chance to develop colonies in your filter media.

Here is the best article I know of on fishless cycling:
http://www.tomgriffin.com/aquamag/cycle2.html

And here is a discussion on another forum that explains it in fairly simple terms:
http://forums.fishindex.com/showthread. ... eadid=7387

-Chelle