Andy M Fishless Cycle

I will see what its at the next couple of days after 12 hours, ( I may not dose ammonia till around 8 o clock tonight so I don't have to be up at 6 for the 12 hour test). If it gets double zeros then all well and good, if not I will part stock maybe on Tuesday. If I part stock will I need regular water changes like I would with a "fish in" cycle?

If you part stock and your ammonia and nitrite stay at zero at your twice a day tests (I would carry on with that for a few days just to make sure) then you only need do weekly water changes. But if either or both show up in any test then you would need to do a water change.
You aren't in the same situation as fish-in cycling as you already have a lot of bacteria, just not quite enough to process 3ppm ammonia in 12 hours. But there should be plenty to process the ammonia from half a tank of fish. There may even be enough for a full load of fish but I don't want to say go and get all your fish and you report back in a couple of days that you have ammonia and/or nitrite. Half a load with no am & nit is better than a full load with some am & nit. And although you won't have all your fish, at least you'll have some.

Day 29

24 hour test

Ammonia zero

nitrite zero

Added 3ml ammonia to 3ppm, also got java fern in now to hopefully help with nitrates

Been hoping that the last 3 days, took 17 hours last night/ this morning

Day 30

12 hour test

Ammonia zero

Nitrite 1 or 2  ppm

Did a 50/50 test with tank/tap water and got 0.25 so in theory my tank should be 0.5 ppm

Thanks Sue, I will leave it one more day I think and probably get 5 cherry barb and five harlequin. As for the galaxies, I will have a couple of weeks at least to find an alternative. So I will be ok for ten fish yeah?

I'd also agree with Sue that endlers are great little fish :-)

I've always wondered why so many shops sell them at so-much for 5 rather than 6. If you had a big enough tank, or only a few species, the way to go would be 10 of each, but that does mean only half the species you could have with 6 each.

Endlers are a lot hardier than guppies as they have not yet been subjected to the same inbreeding. And being closely related it means they do not suffer problems with being cross bred with guppies. If you go for fish around the inch mark, if they are coloured they are males. Females are always plain grey as are fry of both sexes, but males do develop colour quite small, smaller than the fish in shops. Just choose endlers that are colourful and they'll be males.

I have 8 male endlers in my 125 litre. They don't seem to realise there are other fish in the tank. They stay as a group (maybe the odd one will wander off for a while) and though they do chase each other it's only for a few seconds then they chase another one. And they display to each other which can look a bit odd the first time you see it (fins spread, body curved and sort of twitching).
Endlers are not shoaling fish but they do seem to like the company of others. 5 or 6 would be fine.

That sounds like a good plan 

  Sounds great Andy, they are really lovely colourful things - i love mine and they're the only fish I can keep with my small tank! If you want some slightly different colours for your endlers have a look around some of your local shops as they may sell different varieties. In my tank I managed to get yellow tiger endlers, black bar,Japanese blue and pure endler. They are quite colourful generally and you may find your LFS of choice stocks different kinds, but i got a varied batch by going to three different shops in the end!