Extrapolating the rules from Dr Tims cycling video from MACNA comprises today’s most peer-recommended way of cycling a reef.
Dose to two ppm check back overnite to see if total zero shows, no differentiation among cycling substrates.
The thought is if you can’t move that much ammonia to zero in 24 hours then you don’t have enough bacteria. It’s simply not the case.
i have several pages of cycling examples + year out follow ups where we didn’t dose two ppm, and we didn’t dose ammonia more than once, and nobody needed a second round of bacteria. It’s neat you typed that about your seneye measures as I typed that above. The things we add to start a cycle work so fast, the initial ammonia dose is nearly instantly oxidized to the hundredths while api holds at 1-3 ppm for eight days. All stalled cycle threads are misreads.
the notion of a stalled cycle sells more bottle bac unnecessarily than any other angle in reefing. It sells repeat purchases for the same tank which was fine on the first dose and most certainly not stalled.
Dose to two ppm check back overnite to see if total zero shows, no differentiation among cycling substrates.
The thought is if you can’t move that much ammonia to zero in 24 hours then you don’t have enough bacteria. It’s simply not the case.
i have several pages of cycling examples + year out follow ups where we didn’t dose two ppm, and we didn’t dose ammonia more than once, and nobody needed a second round of bacteria. It’s neat you typed that about your seneye measures as I typed that above. The things we add to start a cycle work so fast, the initial ammonia dose is nearly instantly oxidized to the hundredths while api holds at 1-3 ppm for eight days. All stalled cycle threads are misreads.
the notion of a stalled cycle sells more bottle bac unnecessarily than any other angle in reefing. It sells repeat purchases for the same tank which was fine on the first dose and most certainly not stalled.
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