My LFS told me a trick to cycle your tank faster. First thing he told me to do was get some gravel out of an already established tank. Then he said the next step is to put about 2 cups of URINE into the tank. He said that the urine will turn into amonia and help you to get a cycle a lot faster. The guy just opened the store in October and has over 800 fresh water tanks, and he claims he got them all to cycle in less than a month. I was wondering if anyone else knew about this method?
Faster Cycling?
- Thread starter DarthMaul
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This is an unfortunate old wives tail based on the ammonia issue. Urine has a lot more in it than pure Ammonia. In fact most of it is made of compounds youd rather not want in your tank water.
Stick with seeding new tanks with established bio-media...(not gravil or used water)...for established tanks and biospira.
Tank cycling is a process that we can occassionally help along but it's also one that takes a finite amount of time. A little patiance now is a lot better than a potential disaster while attempting an instant aquarium...
Stick with seeding new tanks with established bio-media...(not gravil or used water)...for established tanks and biospira.
Tank cycling is a process that we can occassionally help along but it's also one that takes a finite amount of time. A little patiance now is a lot better than a potential disaster while attempting an instant aquarium...
DarthMaul;1485607; said:
I can just see someone now standing on a step ladder over their tank and unzipping their pants! I did my 600G with some fathead minnows and some filter media from an established tank it took around a month to cycle. I think some people like to turn tank cycling into to much of a Science.
Ugh this again.You can also kill athletes foot fungus by peeing on your feet.pee on everything and post the results.
Fishless cycling with pure ammonia is the best way,faster with some used media from an established tank.
Fishless cycling with pure ammonia is the best way,faster with some used media from an established tank.
Dont pee in the tank. Its just not cool. If you are upgrading use the old filters on the new tank. If not take some of the bio out of established tank.
I'm gonna seed mine with old filter media, and I'm thinking of either adding some old turtle-tank water to feed my bacteria or just let one of my turts have a swim in there every couple of days. Thought being this would work like cycling with fish without subjecting the fish to the stress.
he's partially correct, urine=ammonia source, established gravel= seeding the tank with bacteria. what he's advising is a fishless cycle and yes it is speeded up quite a bit using established gravel/bio media/bio-spira and if you get enough bacteria into the tank then you can reduce the cycle down to a few days or even skip it all together.
Wolf3101;1485627; said:
And the WINNER is.... Wolf3101
Your LFS owner is most probably laughing his head off thinking your going to acually try it. He may actually have done this for his tanks, but that right there should tell you that you don't want to deal with him if he's that cheap (it would have cost him $4.00 in ammonia to do it right & been the same amount of time)...where else is he cutting corners...Fish food? Health care?
We hate to see this come up here every month or so, but teaching is repetitious.
Please help spead the word.
Dr Joe
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