here's a nice example to test out
from the description alone a specific start date was set, no testing required, her updated animals will live and not be burned. she would have to have a tank that doesnt have any rocks and sand to fail to complete the initial tank cycle, and nobody does that just like they dont add fish without bottle bac anymore.
The initial cycle cannot fail, starve or miss the desired start date if she will just change out water on day ten and go. I could have been pressed for an earlier safe start date (we'd reference Dr. Reef's bottle bac test thread for that brand) but ten is safe in today's boosted world. not any boosted cycle takes longer than ten days to complete unless we're curing out roughshod ocean rocks.
to save utter breakdown confusion, a boosted cycle here is fish plus any source of bac 'boosted' into the system vs waiting for natural inoculations. This includes bottle bac, already live rock, wet sand, reef water etc
Ammonia dosing- keep dosing or stop? So many questions!
Ok so I am doing a fishless cycle in my new 37 gallon FOWLR tank. I have aragonite sand and dry live rock in the tank, and 4 days ago I added a bottle of Bio-Spira. I got pure ammonia (Ace Hardware janitorial brand as suggested) and started dosing. Day one I dosed it to 4 ppm. The next day the...
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from the description alone a specific start date was set, no testing required, her updated animals will live and not be burned. she would have to have a tank that doesnt have any rocks and sand to fail to complete the initial tank cycle, and nobody does that just like they dont add fish without bottle bac anymore.
The initial cycle cannot fail, starve or miss the desired start date if she will just change out water on day ten and go. I could have been pressed for an earlier safe start date (we'd reference Dr. Reef's bottle bac test thread for that brand) but ten is safe in today's boosted world. not any boosted cycle takes longer than ten days to complete unless we're curing out roughshod ocean rocks.
to save utter breakdown confusion, a boosted cycle here is fish plus any source of bac 'boosted' into the system vs waiting for natural inoculations. This includes bottle bac, already live rock, wet sand, reef water etc