Jeremey’s reef
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BRS claims this combination will cycle an aquarium in 5 days?
Has anyone ever used this combination?
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Are you talking about using bacteria in a bottle? I've seen some YouTube videos of people doing it and their tanks turn out fine. But I personally haven't done it. I've always had seeded rocks and substrate.
Jeremey’s reef
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So I have Caribsea live sand and caribsea base rock so I should at least need to introduce ammonia to start the cycle correct?
Jeremey’s reef
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So how do I seed my dry rock?
I used Prime and Stability for 7 days. Dry rock and sand.
Jeremey’s reef
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I took a look at those products when I was at premier Aquatics today but no one suggest using the two as a combination for cycling a tank
I was talking to a member telling him I was about to cycle a tank and he suggested it.
Jeremey’s reef
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So do you think I can use the ghost feed in addition to the live sand to complete the cycle
Jeremey’s reef
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So how big of a bottle of each in terms of oz should I use for 170g
500ml
Jeremey’s reef
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So shall it be brother
That is what I did and it worked for me.
Ghost feeding seems so imprecise to me, so I use ammonia, it's also immediate, don't have to wait for food to decay.
i cycled my tank pretty fast ( less than 4-5 days) by using a combination of Dr. Tims and Bio-spira.
Fritz industries pioneered the culture & marketing of nitrifying bacteria years ago. They remain the largest supplier to the wastewater industry, as I recall.
I’ve used their products successfully a number of times. My 125 with dry sand and rock cycled in 7 days using Frtzzyme #9.
They now have a Turbo Start product, which ships fresh from their plant and is supposed to allow instantaneous addition of fish. I believe it just has more bacteria in the bottle.
There are a number of other brands, including Dr Tim’s, Prodibio, Bio-Spira, Brightwell, SeaChem, etc. which have all yielded success cycling marine tanks.
So, while a lot of companies claim to have ‘the secret sauce’, I wonder? There don’t appear to be any controlled trials and they make claims without providing validated data.
I’ve used their products successfully a number of times. My 125 with dry sand and rock cycled in 7 days using Frtzzyme #9.
They now have a Turbo Start product, which ships fresh from their plant and is supposed to allow instantaneous addition of fish. I believe it just has more bacteria in the bottle.
There are a number of other brands, including Dr Tim’s, Prodibio, Bio-Spira, Brightwell, SeaChem, etc. which have all yielded success cycling marine tanks.
So, while a lot of companies claim to have ‘the secret sauce’, I wonder? There don’t appear to be any controlled trials and they make claims without providing validated data.
that last statement is true. that's why some members on R2R did a cycling chemical-in-a-bottle experiment some time ago and i was surprised by how well Bio-Spira worked, plus it can be found in Petco.
My problem with that is, we don’t cycle in bottles.
Ex:
What was the dilution ratio?
My guess is, if we designed an experiment to normalize for the beginning numbers of bacteria, these products would likely perform very close to one another.
