proposed 2021 definition of a completed cycle
-the surface area in a given arrangement is active with ammonia oxidizing bacteria such that any degree of surrounding water change does not reduce bioload carry when measured on calibrated digital free ammonia (nh3) test equipment.
here comes a tldr
how new definition differs from prior old cycling rules:
-differentiates suspension cycling vs completed/adhered cycling where tank maintenance can begin. Suspension cycling is the fish+water+bottle bac and dry rocks on day one, the mode all non digital test owners decry as harmful but on seneye/where folks consult accurate readings/ always checks out as safe. Bottle bac do control ammonia when dosed immediately, check any seneye cycle from a display tank and post back. The risk is disease vectoring in the rush, not ammonia burn.
A seneye owner from Uzbekistan taught me this
Before the dosed bacteria migrate from being suspended in the water to surface adherence, you wouldn’t run UV or do a large water change. It would pull out the suspended bacteria that are reducing fish waste immediately out of the bottle. Tank maintenance needs to wait until adherence sets in. After adherence you can run UV, or do a big water change = suspension vs surface area cycling.
after bacteria seat onto surfaces, you can do tank upgrades and home moves without recycling and without buying new bottled bacteria as the new rule governs your new tank as long as you didn’t mix in filthy detritus during the move
to know when a particular brand adheres, see its label or read Dr. Reefs bottle bac deposition study.
-ammonia-oxidizing bacteria are mentioned to the exclusion of other clades that produce nitrite and nitrate. We only need to sample that step in updated cycling science, one param--not three. to feverishly begin debating the claim join up in the chemistry forum and have your example links handy.
-the new definition incorporates objective measures / digital measurements for the first time in cycle rules, meters that finally show truth in cycling. It means to challenge the rules you need to own a digital nh3 meter
To see how old cycling was doing before the advent of digital nh3 meters, just google “stuck reef tank cycle .25 ammonia” and read the twenty million search returns, none were stuck. now do a comparative search for stuck cycles on seneye, is that a skew or what.
-the surface area in a given arrangement is active with ammonia oxidizing bacteria such that any degree of surrounding water change does not reduce bioload carry when measured on calibrated digital free ammonia (nh3) test equipment.
here comes a tldr
how new definition differs from prior old cycling rules:
-differentiates suspension cycling vs completed/adhered cycling where tank maintenance can begin. Suspension cycling is the fish+water+bottle bac and dry rocks on day one, the mode all non digital test owners decry as harmful but on seneye/where folks consult accurate readings/ always checks out as safe. Bottle bac do control ammonia when dosed immediately, check any seneye cycle from a display tank and post back. The risk is disease vectoring in the rush, not ammonia burn.
A seneye owner from Uzbekistan taught me this
Before the dosed bacteria migrate from being suspended in the water to surface adherence, you wouldn’t run UV or do a large water change. It would pull out the suspended bacteria that are reducing fish waste immediately out of the bottle. Tank maintenance needs to wait until adherence sets in. After adherence you can run UV, or do a big water change = suspension vs surface area cycling.
after bacteria seat onto surfaces, you can do tank upgrades and home moves without recycling and without buying new bottled bacteria as the new rule governs your new tank as long as you didn’t mix in filthy detritus during the move
to know when a particular brand adheres, see its label or read Dr. Reefs bottle bac deposition study.
-ammonia-oxidizing bacteria are mentioned to the exclusion of other clades that produce nitrite and nitrate. We only need to sample that step in updated cycling science, one param--not three. to feverishly begin debating the claim join up in the chemistry forum and have your example links handy.
-the new definition incorporates objective measures / digital measurements for the first time in cycle rules, meters that finally show truth in cycling. It means to challenge the rules you need to own a digital nh3 meter
To see how old cycling was doing before the advent of digital nh3 meters, just google “stuck reef tank cycle .25 ammonia” and read the twenty million search returns, none were stuck. now do a comparative search for stuck cycles on seneye, is that a skew or what.