moonwasaloon;5060373; said:
So I have to add the ammonia every day? So basically do a fishless cycle? While adding stability
Negative, Stability bacteria requires that the fish be added and then Stabiltiy be added each day for 7 days. There should not be any ammonia seen during this time. You do not add ammonia to the tank during this tme; Stability is all that is needed.
I use
Seachem's Stability to provide the aerobic and anaerobic bacteria for my systems, which are Saltwater.
I use it in my QT anytime I wish to setup my QT for a fish(es) for QT purposes and never have any ammonia (40g).
I recommend an external filter with sponges for the bacteria to setup.
I also used it in my 300g SW system when I started it up and never any ammonia.
I highly recommend its use for providing the necessary bacteria for a fully functional biological filtration system.
http://www.seachem.com/Products/product_pages/Stability.html
Stability® will rapidly and safely establish the aquarium biofilter in freshwater and marine systems, thereby preventing the #1 cause of fish death: "new tank syndrome". Stability® is formulated specifically for the aquarium and contains a synergistic blend of aerobic, anaerobic, and facultative bacteria which facilitate the breakdown of waste organics, ammonia, nitrite and nitrate. Unlike competing products, the bacteria employed by Stability® are non-sulfur fixing and will not produce toxic hydrogen sulfide. Stability® is completely harmless to all aquatic organisms as well as aquatic plants, thus there is no danger of over use. Stability® is the culmination of nearly a decade of research and development and represents the current state of the art in natural biological management.
Sizes: 50 mL, 100 mL, 250 mL, 500 mL, 2 L, 4 L, 20 L
Why It's Different
Illustration of Stability's™ bacteria on biofiltration material. stability contains a synergistic blend of aerobic, anaerobic, and facultative bacteria
The bacteria used in competing products are inherently unstable. The conditions necessary for their growth and development fall into a very narrow range of temperatures, pH, organic loads, etc. When any of these parameters are not strictly within the proper range, the bacterial culture quickly crashes and dies. Stability® does not contain any of the aforementioned bacteria.
The bacteria strains in Stability® have been in development for over a decade. The necessary conditions for growth of our bacterial strains encompass a very broad range. When other bacteria begin to die off (usually from high organic loads caused by the undetected death of an organism), Stability® simply works harder and grows faster! The strains function in fresh or saltwater. Stability® contains both nitrifying and denitrifying bacteria, a blend found in no other product. Additionally, Stability® contains facultative bacterial strains which are able to adapt to either aerobic or anaerobic conditions. The bacteria in Stability® are non-sulfur fixing, another innovation in the industry. Most other bacterial supplements will form toxic hydrogen sulfide under the proper conditions. Stability® will not, ever.
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If for some reason you don't or can't use Stability then here is another one:
http://www.liveaquaria.com/PIC/article.cfm?aid=289&ref=4620&subref=AA&cmpid=E-_-CARE-_-32311-_-CYC
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) Anyway we bought one of those 10 gal kits that give you a charcoal filter and a heater. (We keep it at 78F) We put plastic plants (We will be adding real plants in the near future), and gravel in it. Well needless to say I pretty much killed my fish. We picked up 8 fish and a snail. (6 Tetras, a Guppy, and an Algae eater). All was well. Throughout the next day all of the Tetras ended up dying. Now part of the startup kit was missing when we got it. So they all had to sit in the bags for an extra hour while I ran back to get the missing part and we were thinking that is why they ended up dying. So we picked up 5 more from the local Walmart because they were closer. And you guessed it they died to. Then I find out about cycling your tank and I thought that must be it. I ended up getting an API master kit and doing some readings and this is what the readings were since 3/27/11:
