why do all of our starter bacteria stuff note to wait for it to hit 0 before you consider the tank cycled?
here’s the logic flow:
A bottle bac maker writes the rules that buyers use for reef cycling
reef cycler tests and gets high nitrite, buys more bottle bac over and over since nitrite drop didn’t match ammonia drop - it’s not supposed to, see cycling chart, ammonia is day ten nitrite is day thirty IF the api tester is accurate, who says it will be?
cycle rules writer gets richer. Pretty simple
have a scientist with a seneye study who does not sell bottle bac write the rules on stalling. Nothing we do stops ammonia control in a common reef cycle, and ammonia control is all that matters.
once we get a scientist with no sales income on the line + a new MACNA talk, this false sales loop ends.
the final insult to the hobby: by misleading reefers on the nature of stalled cycled, the bottle bac maker misleads all cyclers into a hyperfocus on two parameters and no discussion of fish disease is ever, ever, ever, ever mentioned and that’s where all loss in reef cycling happens.
all of us here can go search out the absolute most updated cycling science written for the hobby and there’s no mention of disease protocols not one bit. By training folks to hyper focus on parameters that don’t matter a massive sales motivation is created and millions of hobby fish are killed within a few months of setup *well after the cycler waited extra time and bought those extra bottles of bacteria***
the fish still died anyway and they followed the rules the podium talk said to do with nitrite to a T
I cannot find one example of a bottle bac cycle failing to carry any animal the keeper put in the tank, reef cycles don’t stall or we’d have twenty examples of that we can find.
cycle stalling is the biggest false sales prop this hobby has seen in a long time. Fish disease from skipping preps is the sole risk in a cycle attempt, ammonia control will be fine by day ten in every arrangement Ive seen that used bottle bac at the start.
I have never seen an attempted reef tank cycle fail, not one, though the rule writer makes us think this happens daily.
ALL stalled cycle threads we can search out are tanks carrying fish fine and either a Red Sea or an api kit causing panic.
