Tank Demolition

[vlcuXX]

Hey everybody, so I'm totally done with trying to cycle my obnoxious but totally inanimate tank, with everything I had in it that is. It used to have plants and a bunch of cool stuff in it...

But now I'm switching to a simplistic and easy to clean set up, my other setup id literally have to take everything apart every damn water change to vacuum the sand and that's just time I don't have to spare. So my current set up is like this. Necessities only.

I'm done with my tank not cycling after 2 months and even when it is almost done cycling, it crashes because there's too much waste being missed by the vacuum, ammonia was at 8 ppm today when it was 0.25 a couple days ago, back when I thought it was just done cycling, after my ammonia and nitrite and nitrate spike...
So yeah, yippee for the ugly simplistic design of my tank now!

 

[vlcuXX]

Let me know what you guys think of it before AND after, and any thing I could do to kind of finally finish my cycle and stop anymore unnecessary stalls. I know to do 50% water changes every day or two, sometimes I miss a day because of work exhausting me, and just dose with Prime to keep them safe.

Edit: it's a 40 gallon tank housing my 2 axolotls which are 7 inches each or so, the golden maybe 6 inches.

love them to death!

 

[keiko]

Haha even your necessities only is a lot more than some people have in their tanks.
Maybe you could get your axies out of the tank for a little while to get the cycle ready? That way you could keep the ammonia around 4 ppm and it would be done a lot faster.

 

[vlcuXX]

Haha even your necessities only is a lot more than some people have in their tanks.

Maybe you could get your axies out of the tank for a little while to get the cycle ready? That way you could keep the ammonia around 4 ppm and it would be done a lot faster.

I have a really old refrigerator, so it's not trustworthy when it comes to controlling the temp, it stays quite cold.

So I don't mind changing the water and adding prime to keep stuff detoxified while they stay in there.