Need some help regarding my cycle and fish arriving tomorrow
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If you want to accelerate cycling or have additional bacteria in place to handle an influx of ammonia, purchase a bottle of Seachem Stability. Seachem Prime is also reputed to detoxify nitrites and nitrates. With Stability, pour off about a third of the clear buffer and shake vigorously for approx. 20 seconds to resuspend bacterial spores. Add to tank. Supplement with a rounded tablespoon of cane sugar for the bacteria to use as a carbon source, until the tank is populated.
Another way detoxify nitrite is to dissolve about 1 tablespoon of fine salt per 20 g for every 1ppm nitrite measured.
Yes
thebiggerthebetter
is good at calculating how much salt is needed to detoxify nitrites. Check out my thread Ammonia levels are high what do I do???
Check it out a ton of good info there!
thebiggerthebetter
is good at calculating how much salt is needed to detoxify nitrites. Check out my thread Ammonia levels are high what do I do???Check it out a ton of good info there!
Like the guys said above - detox nitrites at 100x the concentration with table (water softener) salt. If you nitrite is 2 ppm, you need 200 ppm of salt in your tank, a bit more for the margin, like 300 ppm.
It wont kill your cycle it will protect your fish form the nitrites. I did this myself and it helped my fish not to be affected by it
Dr. Timothy Hovanec is the microbiologist who discovered the specific bacteria which handle ammonia and nitrite in tanks. He along with Tetra own patents on some of these. This means the exact bacteria we want, especially for nitrite, are not in most other products. I have used Dr. Tim;s and can vouch for it. The nitrifying bacteria do not form spores, they reproduce by division. They also will go dormant when conditions are unfavorable. Stability contains no live bacteria, only spores. Dr. Tim's and Tetra's SafeStart+ contain the exact bacteria we need.
However, if you are correct about no ammonia, there is a very simple way to protect fish from nitrite. Chloride will do this. And chloride is avaialable via good old salt/ And sodium chloride product will work. For another site I wrote three articles on cycling. The first is how to do a fishless cycle. The other two are how to rescue a fish in cycle gone wild. The second article contains step by step directions for using chloride via salt to protect fish from nitrite. I may be violating site rules by offering this link. However, the work is mine even if the site is a competitor to other fish forums.
Rescuing A Fish In Cycle Gone Wild - Part Il
You can use plain old salt shaker salt for the above. Iodine or anti-caking agents are not an issue. They are there in miniscule amounts and will do not harm. You do not need to take my word on this, have a read here of your are worried. I was lucky enough very early on in my fishkeeping years to have met and learned from Robert in a long dead fish forum. I left here for there when I found it. The people there are now some of those we see as speakers at weekend fish events all over the world. The Salt of the Earth
However, if you are correct about no ammonia, there is a very simple way to protect fish from nitrite. Chloride will do this. And chloride is avaialable via good old salt/ And sodium chloride product will work. For another site I wrote three articles on cycling. The first is how to do a fishless cycle. The other two are how to rescue a fish in cycle gone wild. The second article contains step by step directions for using chloride via salt to protect fish from nitrite. I may be violating site rules by offering this link. However, the work is mine even if the site is a competitor to other fish forums.
Rescuing A Fish In Cycle Gone Wild - Part Il
You can use plain old salt shaker salt for the above. Iodine or anti-caking agents are not an issue. They are there in miniscule amounts and will do not harm. You do not need to take my word on this, have a read here of your are worried. I was lucky enough very early on in my fishkeeping years to have met and learned from Robert in a long dead fish forum. I left here for there when I found it. The people there are now some of those we see as speakers at weekend fish events all over the world. The Salt of the Earth
