Best bottled bacteria/instant cycle product?

[Jc1119]

That's right John, it was a figment of your ignoration!

Lol classic.




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[shookONES]

Explain to me how aerobic bacteria survives in an air tight bottle without a food source

 

[Jc1119]

Explain to me how aerobic bacteria survives in an air tight bottle without a food source

http://www.seachem.com/Products/product_pages/Stability.html


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[Jc1119]

Last question on the page

http://www.seachem.com/support/FAQs/Stability.html


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[RD.]

Which is exactly the same way that aerobic probiotic bacteria (spores) survive in air tight containers.

 

[vr6fan]

Ive used stability and safestart with great success..I think people who dont think it works are the stubborn old timers who either have never used it, or didnt use it correctly...the stuff works period




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[ragin_cajun]

I wasn't saying it doesn't work--not at all. I was just qualifying my experience. I figured David was gonna be doing this with expensive fish cause he likes Pleco's and they ship a long ways where he's at. SafeStart definitely did work for me. Ammonia never got high, never saw any Nitrite, and never lost a fish. I was pleasantly surprised.


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[David R]

I figured David was gonna be doing this with expensive fish cause he likes Pleco's and they ship a long ways where he's at.

You're right about the first bit, and they have shipped a long way to get here, but because of our biosecurity laws they then spend about two months in quarantine before they're allowed to be wholesaled and they've been at the LFS since Wednesday, so it's not like I'm picking them up straight off the plane from Brasil (unfortunately!). I'll pick them up on Sunday, then it's just a two hour car ride home from there. Getting excited!!

For interest sake I'll keep testing the parameters of the quarantine tank and see what happens with the continued dosing of Stability.

 

[David R]

Quarantine tank has been running for three days now, no ammonia spike at all, been feeding heavily too.

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[reptilerescued]

Cool glad it's working.
What are you using? I just picked up a bottle of API quick start for my 160.
I need to move my Gar over to it in the next few weeks ( two weeks tops) and the tank has only been running since Sept 30th with 4 Aussie rainbows, a fat head minnow, common pleco, native sun fish, and sens bichir. all around 3 inches. accept the birchir hes about 5 inches.

Both filters are "new" so after reading this thread I figures I'd give it a try.

I do plan on moving a sponge filter over from the tank GARfield is in, but I'm waiting on the hurricane 5 air pump to arrive.
SO now that I wrote you a novel.
What bio chem additive did you add?

Rich