Fishless cycle or use stability?

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KJB;5109455; said:
Old filters/media and use Superbac. Its like Stability but superior.
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I know and I mentioned earlier that I have no other tanks and am getting back into the hobby after being out for 2 years otherwise I'd transfer some bio media to the tank and not have to deal with cycling all together.


Anyways fish are here and they are small! I'm worried that even with stability the tank won't cycle because of the lack of poop! There are 5 zebra loaches that are 2 inches long, 6 kuhli loaches that are 2 inches long, 18 cardinal,glowlight tetras that are around maybe an inch. So can they produce enough poopy to get the cycle going?
 
Ajno;5123015; said:
I know and I mentioned earlier that I have no other tanks and am getting back into the hobby after being out for 2 years otherwise I'd transfer some bio media to the tank and not have to deal with cycling all together.


Anyways fish are here and they are small! I'm worried that even with stability the tank won't cycle because of the lack of poop! There are 5 zebra loaches that are 2 inches long, 6 kuhli loaches that are 2 inches long, 18 cardinal,glowlight tetras that are around maybe an inch. So can they produce enough poopy to get the cycle going?
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Yes.
 
They will generate plenty of waste to cycle the tank. Use Stability or if you can Superbac which is Stability x10
 
jschall;5108438; said:
Does stability work? Yes. Obviously.
Does it work with 100% reliability? Are bacteria immortal and invincible? No.
Does it work immediately? No. The bacteria supplied in the bottle are unlikely to be completely sufficient. You have to wait for them to multiply, and they're not effective until they're at sufficient population because their population goes up exponentially. This means that there will be some buildup of ammonia/nitrite before stability takes care of it.

The simplest solution to these problems is to do a fishless cycle with stability. It should take less than a week if stability's claims are true. Add ammonia 3ppm, add stability, wait for ammonia/nitrite to zero, add fish.
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I agree! Fishless with stability worked for me. I used to do fishless with ammonia but then I tried stability and I cycled my 75 gallon in 8 days!! Better than waiting a month!

:edit: ofcourse I supplimented the bacteria with pure ammonia :-)
 
Well so far everything is 0. Not sure if thats good or not. Still using the stability and feeding everyone 2x a day. Had two losses when I first got them out of the bag other than that everyone is doing pretty good. Whats Superbac?
 
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