Do you ever buy live bacteria in a bottle? How well does it work?

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hmmm, from my experience ive had really good success with just Cycle. im actually suprised everyone doesnt have better experiences with bottled bacteria, also ive used microb lift cause i use it for my outdoor pond in summer and it keeps the algae in check really really good, my pond would be a giant slime pit if it wasnt for the microb lift, it contains methane supposedlly to put the bacteria in a suspended animation until you add it to water, thats just what the bottle says so. back to the tank though, i just recently got a new tank, new filter. put cycle in it and added fish the same day, three large cichlids and two bichirs and in the two weeks after i did it i got no mesurable readings of ammonia or nitrite, and now i get nitrate readings, so, the cycle pretty much completed as soon as i did it. I know some wont believe me, but i relaly do have a 75 gallon full of healthy cichlids that were put in a new tank on day one, just using cycle, since then its been about two months, still all going good, so, in my opinion, descenting from everyone else here apparentlly, I love the stuff, works great for me, i always have it on hand
 
oh, also, on all my new tanks i test daily with API master test kit, justt in case you thought i wasnt testing right
 
golcondorus;3696646; said:
hmmm, from my experience ive had really good success with just Cycle. im actually suprised everyone doesnt have better experiences with bottled bacteria, also ive used microb lift cause i use it for my outdoor pond in summer and it keeps the algae in check really really good, my pond would be a giant slime pit if it wasnt for the microb lift, it contains methane supposedlly to put the bacteria in a suspended animation until you add it to water, thats just what the bottle says so. back to the tank though, i just recently got a new tank, new filter. put cycle in it and added fish the same day, three large cichlids and two bichirs and in the two weeks after i did it i got no mesurable readings of ammonia or nitrite, and now i get nitrate readings, so, the cycle pretty much completed as soon as i did it. I know some wont believe me, but i relaly do have a 75 gallon full of healthy cichlids that were put in a new tank on day one, just using cycle, since then its been about two months, still all going good, so, in my opinion, descenting from everyone else here apparentlly, I love the stuff, works great for me, i always have it on hand
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x2, I agree. :D I was a major hater of bacteria in a bottle until I used Seachem Stability the first time. I was done with the cycle in just days with a heavy bioload... The nice thing about Stability is that it converts ammonia to non-toxic while your cycling so those few days are pretty stress free.
 
ive been thinking and i believe the key is to add the fish right away so the bacteria have an immediate and constistant supply of ammonia. i always dose the filter intakes so it gets in there good, just my two cents
 
its an instant source of ammonia which by nature within a day or three will give you BB which will even itself out in another few days...

but yeah.. its magic BS in a bottle as far as im concerned
 
we need some actual research on this subject, does anyone know if there has been research done regarding this, in journals, books, magazine articles??????????????
 
i use this stuff called cycle the owner of my lfs has had his store for years he put me onto it when i fish started he actually gave me a 8 inch jd for free cause it had a bad rear fin but i always put the cycle in then put the fish in and never had a problem but u gotta check the company you buy bacteria from they also have a company out that does dry bacteria product name is biozyme i use that to after wc and it seems to be great
 
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