I'm performing a fishless cycle on a new freshwater tank. I have a new scrubber and also a canister running on it. I would eventually like to just run the scrubber, if possible.
The tank has been filled with well water, so no ammonia or chlorine. The canister has seeded bio media in it. For 3 days I have been adding ammonia to get the nitrogen cycle started. The scrubber will eat the ammonia as well as the canister. It is starting to grow a haze of algae, but not much. My ammonia levels are at about 2ppm.
My questions are... will this work, and am I going about this the best way possible? Should I just be concerned with the algae growth and not so much the canister media? Thanks.