Question: Cycling with New tank and New Axies?

[vlcuXX]

Ok so, i wanna ask, Big Al's got a shipment of baby golden albino axies in today, I just started cycling my tank for them.... I've been waiting sooooo long to get them! (Bout a year or so) But they kept getting they're shipments delayed, so the question I wanna as is... Can I get an axie or two right now? I don't want them to run out before the tank is 'cycled', so is it ok to get one right now? Also, I dechlorinated the water, and I put some of the water from my little baby snapper turtle's tank into the soon to be axie tank to help with cycling it. Someone answer my question?

 

[esn]

To be honest, I don't cycle my tank before I put anything in it. Given that I have to drive it all somewhere at least 5 times a year, cycling doesn't work out for me. You can either keep the axies in a tub (which should be sufficient, since they're babies), or you can put them in the tank and do daily water changes. I have 3 juvies sitting in tubs right now, and 3 adults in an uncycled but frequently changed tank. I do the same with my fish and frogs. Never had a problem.

 

[vlcuXX]

Alrighty then! I don't think having an uncycled tank could hurt them... I'll put them in there and let it cycle!

 

[carsona246]

make sure you do waterchanges to keep ammonia below .5 ppm's and nitrite below 3 ppm's. I personally cycle all my tanks prior to getting anything aquatic to reduce the amount of waterchanges I have to do to keep the water livable. But it's whatever floats your boat

 

[dad of axle]

I think my juvenile is a golden albino, and I just brought him home from the pet shop and put him straight into a tank 40 cm tank with nothing but tap water that had been dechlorinated. That was a over two months ago now , he is in a 3 foot tank with a filter.

I was doing a water change to at least 20 percent most days when he was in the small tank now he is much bigger and I dont yet have anyplants in his tank, though after reading these forums i think i will get some hornwort.

If i have read correctly that will help with amonia reduction. The filter i am using in his tank at the moment is a small sponge filter designed for the 40 cm tank. I do have to vacume the bottom of the 3 ft tank quite frequently at the moment because i am probably feeding my axie more than enough at the moment. as his growth rate has started to slow down a bit, ( I still hope he makes it to about 30 cm long)