Uploaded November 2020 | Updated September 2026, 2 hours ago

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Find out how live plants can also consume toxic nitrogen waste and cycle your aquarium.
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0:00 Aquarium cycling using live plants
0:57 How the cycling experiment was set up
1:11 Method 3 - Fishless cycling with plants
3:21 How to fishless cycle with live plants
4:04 Method 4 - Fish-in cycling with plants & bottled bacteria
5:20 Tips for fish-in cycling with plants & bottled bacteria
6:00 Downsides of cycling with plants

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