Can Copepods survive high ammonia ?
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Dkuhlmann
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If you don't have any inhabitants in your tank (and you shouldn't) just let the cycle run it's course. That ammonia needs to be there, it's what starts your cycle. It will go to 0 and create nitrites which will spike and then goes to 0, then you get nitrates which you do a wc once the cycle is complete to have them exported out of the tank. In the meantime you need to be patient and wait for the ammonia and nitrites to go to 0
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Are you asking whether you can add them during the cycle? If so then the answer would be no. When pods come in on LR some do survive a cycle but you shouldn't add any to it.
When my tank started to cycle, my dad wanted to put something in it he doesn't understand the cycle so i was able to talk him out of buying anything but cheato i figure it was only 5$ and if it died oh well, it also contained copepods and amphipods. He put it in probably 3 days into the cycle and it lived so did all the pods.
I condition with fishfood (1 flake per ten gallons a day) and never pour ammonia or magic potions in. I've had all sorts of species survive cycle, right up to stony bubble coral, sponges, snails, soft corals, mushrooms---and copepods certainly. If you go by the fishfood method, probably more likely things like that will survive the cycle. Fish have the hardest time.
