right now you're googling failed cycle to retro find that example, hoping its from this year at least, and seeing still only more of my diatribe, is that funny or not
types of cycles:
-dry rock with bottle bac and wait for params to line up, add fish when api permits
dry rock and bottle bac with fish, no wait
-shipped live rock from the ocean that sometimes can require curing, depending on shipping, and often doesnt as pointed out by MNfish.
-our golden thread here, total skip cycle live rock: cannot ever be starved of its bac when kept in an aquarium, needs no inoculation to get ready, requires no feeding to keep its bacteria alive (inherent feed stores are permanently set within the rock by association) we have the only type that shows up ready, instantly, all the time without variation. moving pet store rocks to home is never going to be lethal, and you can't find any examples where it was even though you're on page fifteen google results trying to find one.
of the cycle options, our live rock skip cycles are the safest method for determining an exact start date because they're testless...no test gives us permission to reef with already cured live rocks, our eyes give us that permission in what we can visually see and verify as attachments on that rock.
even with fish + bottle bac cycles, some bottle bac can be killed during shipping so a test is prudent to at least know if the bottle chosen was active.
but regarding skip cycle rocks, we can literally see they're cycled. That's not ever been written in a cycling manual, visually-verified cycle completion, so we make that rule here and use post logging to stamp it in place ten years before someone agrees to lightly review it in a reef book.
types of cycles:
-dry rock with bottle bac and wait for params to line up, add fish when api permits
dry rock and bottle bac with fish, no wait
-shipped live rock from the ocean that sometimes can require curing, depending on shipping, and often doesnt as pointed out by MNfish.
-our golden thread here, total skip cycle live rock: cannot ever be starved of its bac when kept in an aquarium, needs no inoculation to get ready, requires no feeding to keep its bacteria alive (inherent feed stores are permanently set within the rock by association) we have the only type that shows up ready, instantly, all the time without variation. moving pet store rocks to home is never going to be lethal, and you can't find any examples where it was even though you're on page fifteen google results trying to find one.
of the cycle options, our live rock skip cycles are the safest method for determining an exact start date because they're testless...no test gives us permission to reef with already cured live rocks, our eyes give us that permission in what we can visually see and verify as attachments on that rock.
even with fish + bottle bac cycles, some bottle bac can be killed during shipping so a test is prudent to at least know if the bottle chosen was active.
but regarding skip cycle rocks, we can literally see they're cycled. That's not ever been written in a cycling manual, visually-verified cycle completion, so we make that rule here and use post logging to stamp it in place ten years before someone agrees to lightly review it in a reef book.
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