It'll be home for a betta. Just a betta (though maybe possibly also a nerite snail)
I have 2 identical 25 litre tanks. One is a betta tank, the other a quarantine tank. My last betta developed some rather suspicious lumps which looked very like lymphocystis, an infectious viral disease. I got so bad, and his behaviour changed so much, that I put him down. Normally when my bettas die (usually of old age) I just add ammonia to the tank to feed the filter bacteria till I can find another I like. This time I can't do that or the new betta would probably beome infected. So I sterilised the tank and everthing in it with bleach - including the filter. I threw away the media from the filter. While it was soaking I got out the quarantine tank and instead of stealing some media from one of my other tanks as I do when I use the QT I decided it was about time I actually did a fishless cycle for the first time in my life. How can I advise people on fishless cycling if I don't do one myself
It's easier for me to be patient as I do have 2 other tanks. I haven't used any media from one of them as newcomers to the hobby rarely have access to mature media. And I haven't used 'bottled bacteria' as I wanted to see how the cycle would progress with just ammonia and brand new media. The filter and heater haven't been used for a couple of years and were totally dry, as was the tank, so there is no chance of any bacteria surviving on the surfaces.
Basically, I wanted to see what a fishless cycle was like
We don't know what the problem is with my father-in-law's funeral. He died last Wednesday. My brother-in-law registered the death on Thursday and he made an appointment to see the undertaker on Monday. That's when he discovered 2 problems - because he will be buried in the same grave as my mother-in-law, there has to be paperwork from additional department to open an existing grave; and because the grave is in a council cemetery in a different council area from where they lived, it is more complicated to arrange. The next available dates were the end of next week - in the mornings. Brother-in-law wants an afternoon so that relatives can travel there and back in a day, and the next available afternoon is in almost 2 weeks.
It seems that a couple of deacades and more ago, everyone wanted morning funerals. Everyone lived locally and it gave the opportunity for a wake lasting the whole afternoon. Nowadays, family and friends are scattered wide. Everyone wants afternoon funerals so that mourners living some way away can travel there and back in one day. My husband's aunt and uncle in the midlands will be able to do this, for example. But it is a five hour drive for us, too long to be done in one day for people our age. We'll drive down the afternoon before and return home the morning after the funeral.
But even so, 19 days is a bit much. My mother-in-law died in January 2011. Her funeral was 11 days after her death, and that was delayed because bad weather caused a bit of a back log (difficult to dig graves when the ground is frozen solid they said). The wait is getting to my husband; he wants it sooner, but what can you do? We are too far away to arrange anything ourselves. We have to rely on my brother-in-law.