you don't have to eliminate them, those ever-dispersed bacteria contribute to all our cycles and if left totally to themselves, still complete a cycle.
the whole trick is compliance dating, time to completion and activation of all surface area. it ranges on predetermined time scales relative to the type of cycle we select.
bottle bac, compliance date is day 0-10 when tracked on digital gear. non digital gear may require three months to complete for some folks, but that's not how long their cycle took.
completely unassisted cycling, no feed and regular clean made water not old used water, and no feed, self-cycles in 3 or 4 months see page 97 Dr Reefs bottle bac study/ MSteven1. this is a cycle using exactly the bac you're describing, free environmental bacteria that contaminate in unintentionally. they're the slowest, its the slowest of all cycling modes but the cycle still completes with a strong ending ability to handle waste.
Using old reef water on dry rocks dry sand takes twenty days to pass oxidation testing, its about half as fast as paid bottle bac cycling. we have threads for this but am withholding to page 3 ish
by the fact of it being ready on day 20 vs 3-4 mos is how we know the reef water contributed a significant degree of help.
reef tank water 100% has cycling bacteria in it that can cycle as well as bottle bac given the right number of wait days.
not just some bacteria, enough to make it cycle only ten days slower than paid bottle bac and about 3x faster than totally unassisted cycling.
ocean water, 1000%. *this one hasn't been tested. I'll bet up front if someone takes real ocean water from the beach, puts it in a test tank of dry marco rocks stacked full, swirls for 10 days, removes all the sea water and inputs bag prep saltwater, then doses half a ppm ammonia on seneye the tank processes it in 24 hours back to hundredths ppm or thousandths.
why not 2 ppm? because that's not required in reefing, we don't dose to 2 ppm in thousands of pages of cycling work I do, that's what trained buyers do. we cycle tanks in my threads with determinate start dates, and half a ppm movement is plenty considering the degree of surface area we all stack into tanks. there is zero validity in the requirement to dose an initial 2 ppm to a cycle, it comes solely from a bottle bac video and label.
the whole trick is compliance dating, time to completion and activation of all surface area. it ranges on predetermined time scales relative to the type of cycle we select.
bottle bac, compliance date is day 0-10 when tracked on digital gear. non digital gear may require three months to complete for some folks, but that's not how long their cycle took.
completely unassisted cycling, no feed and regular clean made water not old used water, and no feed, self-cycles in 3 or 4 months see page 97 Dr Reefs bottle bac study/ MSteven1. this is a cycle using exactly the bac you're describing, free environmental bacteria that contaminate in unintentionally. they're the slowest, its the slowest of all cycling modes but the cycle still completes with a strong ending ability to handle waste.
Using old reef water on dry rocks dry sand takes twenty days to pass oxidation testing, its about half as fast as paid bottle bac cycling. we have threads for this but am withholding to page 3 ish
by the fact of it being ready on day 20 vs 3-4 mos is how we know the reef water contributed a significant degree of help.
reef tank water 100% has cycling bacteria in it that can cycle as well as bottle bac given the right number of wait days.
not just some bacteria, enough to make it cycle only ten days slower than paid bottle bac and about 3x faster than totally unassisted cycling.
ocean water, 1000%. *this one hasn't been tested. I'll bet up front if someone takes real ocean water from the beach, puts it in a test tank of dry marco rocks stacked full, swirls for 10 days, removes all the sea water and inputs bag prep saltwater, then doses half a ppm ammonia on seneye the tank processes it in 24 hours back to hundredths ppm or thousandths.
why not 2 ppm? because that's not required in reefing, we don't dose to 2 ppm in thousands of pages of cycling work I do, that's what trained buyers do. we cycle tanks in my threads with determinate start dates, and half a ppm movement is plenty considering the degree of surface area we all stack into tanks. there is zero validity in the requirement to dose an initial 2 ppm to a cycle, it comes solely from a bottle bac video and label.
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