for fun you should turn this into a testless cycle thread
it’s not about testing to complete a cycle, its about waiting the pre calculated number of days this bacteria brand takes to adhere strongly to surfaces as logged in Dr. Reefs bottle bac thread
take half a pinch of ground up fish food ground into powder and add it
wait a total of ten days from Sunday when you started with the ammonia and bac, so July 19th and do a large water change, youre cycled. It doesn’t matter what your tests read, you’re cycled because ten days is the plating date for that bacteria already known. Old cycling science assesses your cycle as something that might not complete on time or has an open ended completion date, that isn’t true.
new cycling science knows that ammonia is the only parameter that matters in reef cycling and it’s known control date # of days is day ten, see any common cycling chart for a second source of the universality of the ten day wait in reef cycling. Nitrite has no bearing here, it’s chemically neutral in a reef tank since we aren’t freshwater cycling.
nitrate has no bearing because a zero reading doesn’t mean uncycled, lots of cycled tanks here are zero nitrate tanks and they add some to bring up levels but not for cycling bac control.
the natural timing of ammonia control is already shown on any cycling chart and in any logged bottle bac study for this strain. Wasting your $ on test kits still isn’t updated cycling science— that just named your exact fish ready date: July 19th
need to study up on disease preps before making use the tanks carry ability
just because you can control ammonia by that calculated date doesn’t mean crypto won’t wipe out the fish three months later: disease preps are your risk, your area of investment / the cycle is as good as done and is predetermined in completion. If this was a Fritz cycle it would be three days, see the studies.
your bottle bac strain would carry fish on day one, without burning them, because the dosed bacteria are floating in suspension / thousands do this and it doesn’t burn fish
what we are doing with the ten days is giving actual adherence time where the systems can endure water changes without losing functional bacteria. If you did a water change just after dosing Dr Tims bacteria that would export and waste a lot of it
your cycle isnt a challenge because the known ready date is so exact and close by. You’re adding carbon with the fish food trick, it’s like roids for cycling bacteria. No more ammonia nor testing is needed or would be accurate in context to the known calculated required wait time for natural adherence of the dosed bacteria. Let em eat what youve given + a zip of carbon and wait ten days from start date, done. = updated cycling science
