Here’s a tank being cycled in twenty days by adding only reef water. reef water 100% has cycling bacteria available for use and transfer, the old adage is wrong.
reef water has millions of transferable cells of bacteria that will certainly cycle.
EDIT: In conclusion, if using the method I did - connecting an established reef to a new system with dry rock (clean), I recommend the following: 1. Dose your new tank prior to connecting to your old tank with NO3 and PO4 enough to raise to your established tank levels. 2. Take your skimmer...
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We are trained to buy bacteria from a bottle by being told incorrectly that cycles stall, or cant come free of charge by simple wait times, or by using simply old tank water.
the next time a MACNA speaker talks about cycling they need to address:
-NeonRabbits findings that a free cycle happens in a mere 30 days wait, like a cycling chart says, no feed or bottle bac required and why testing cycle rules on seneye isn’t like testing on red sea or api
-how reef water carries lots of cycling bacteria in every tank
-how seneye testing allowed the masses to find their own truths completely opposite from former cycling training, pre seneye
- how nitrite does not stall any reef cycle and never has
-how no cycles have stalled, stalled cycle posts are all misreading color compare tests. Cycles complete based on a predetermined date relative to the boosters we choose to use and if no boosters are used, they still complete on a time scale already known (this reliability allows MACNA conventions to start on time with rows of ready reefs)
Inputting dead bottle bac isn’t a stall, it’s an unassisted cycle timeline that still cycles fully in a month or so
-they need to discuss how live rock transfers are complete instant skip cycles, every time, without variation (it’s how these conventions are made)
inputting live bottle bac gets you instant ammonia control such that fish-in cycles aren’t harming fish, they’re just breaking disease protocols<- I saw Jon M’s seneye posts measuring Dr Tims as a recent example
the speaker needs to discuss why sellers at marine aquarium conventions dont have to adhere to rules they give buyers out in the field, regarding timely reef tank starts vs the risks of ‘stalls’
am pouncing the establishment not the op ~ all printed material for cycling says opposite of my claims
takeaways reefcentral can benefit from: don’t make mods the regulators of findings and information, you’ll stifle your board to the point frozen molasses runs faster.
