Thanks, this will save a lot of time
Bacteria in a bottle, Myth or Fact
Call me old school, back in the day we placed a deli shrimp in a tank to kick start the cycle. When tank reached 1.5-2 ppm ammonia we pulled it out and waited sometimes weeks to months for bacteria to colonize and drop ammonia and nitrites down to 0 to make tank safe for livestock. With recent...
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to make it easier to find since it's a bit older. He's running a new set of experiments with improved testing but no data has been posted in that one yet.