How close are we to BB in a bottle?

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Worth a try. Let us know how it goes.
 
I chatted with brianp yesterday, I am using stability on a 180 g with 11 5-6 inch frontosa, I had a crash in my bacteria and now on day 6 with stability, on day 2 I had a spawn,,currently I have locked ammonia at 2ppm , nitrites at 0, nitrates at 5-10 ppm. I will keep you posed at my progress. fish are very hungry and eagar to eat but my water is very cloudy now
 
ward1066;3008589; said:
I chatted with brianp yesterday, I am using stability on a 180 g with 11 5-6 inch frontosa, I had a crash in my bacteria and now on day 6 with stability, on day 2 I had a spawn,,currently I have locked ammonia at 2ppm , nitrites at 0, nitrates at 5-10 ppm. I will keep you posed at my progress. fish are very hungry and eagar to eat but my water is very cloudy now
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How odd. I followed BrianP's directions and cycled a way over stocked fry tank in 5 days with no spikes at all. Hope it works out for you bro
 
we recently set up two new 75gal fry growouts for african cichlids. we set up the tanks and let them run for about 3 days. then we added about 25-50 fry to each tank. we checked levels in a few days and the nitrites had spiked to 1 ppm. we did a 20 % water change every day for a week on both tanks and at the end of the week the nitrites were at 2 ppm; ammonia stayed at 0 ppm the whole time. africans are hardy so they were totally fine the whole time. We then started using seachem stability. the first few days, the nitrites hovered between 1 and 2 ppm and slowly started going down after about 3 days. they dropped by .25 ppm per day till they were at 0 ppm after about a week. we then added about 50 more fry to the tanks while monitering levels. the next day, the nitrites spiked to about .5 ppm and went down about .25 ppm per day till they were at 0 ppm again in two days. its been a month now since we set the tanks up and water params are perfect. one of the tanks has about 50 1-3in peacocks and the other one has about 125 1-3in mbunas.
 
greenearthlawns;3010008; said:
we recently set up two new 75gal fry growouts for african cichlids. we set up the tanks and let them run for about 3 days. then we added about 25-50 fry to each tank. we checked levels in a few days and the nitrites had spiked to 1 ppm. we did a 20 % water change every day for a week on both tanks and at the end of the week the nitrites were at 2 ppm; ammonia stayed at 0 ppm the whole time. africans are hardy so they were totally fine the whole time. We then started using seachem stability. the first few days, the nitrites hovered between 1 and 2 ppm and slowly started going down after about 3 days. they dropped by .25 ppm per day till they were at 0 ppm after about a week. we then added about 50 more fry to the tanks while monitering levels. the next day, the nitrites spiked to about .5 ppm and went down about .25 ppm per day till they were at 0 ppm again in two days. its been a month now since we set the tanks up and water params are perfect. one of the tanks has about 50 1-3in peacocks and the other one has about 125 1-3in mbunas.
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Nice I wish I lived near you I would be buying your peacocks thats most of my stocking lol :D
 
Following up on Dr Tim's One and Only.
http://www.drsfostersmith.com/product/prod_display.cfm?pcatid=18986

FWIW... I used this product to "cycle" my tank last week. It didn't work. I dosed it on Thursday and added a fish about 4 hours later. the directions say to add a fish within 24 hours.

I tested today and I still have Ammonia, Nitrites and Nitrates. This product might speed up the cycling process, but it certainly doesn't give you a fully cycled tank in 24 hours as it advertises.
 
HaleMoana;3057282; said:
Following up on Dr Tim's One and Only.
http://www.drsfostersmith.com/product/prod_display.cfm?pcatid=18986

FWIW... I used this product to "cycle" my tank last week. It didn't work. I dosed it on Thursday and added a fish about 4 hours later. the directions say to add a fish within 24 hours.

I tested today and I still have Ammonia, Nitrites and Nitrates. This product might speed up the cycling process, but it certainly doesn't give you a fully cycled tank in 24 hours as it advertises.
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Sorry to hear that man. What do you plan to do now? :( Also I have heard a lot of different experiences with this product. You may want to circulate your experience since that product is of the more expensive variety in the category.
 
I'm gonna leave the fish in there and let nature takes it's course I guess. Cylce it the old fashioned way with the fish. Poor guy... I hope he makes it!
 
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