Let’s just do a testless cycle and forego that cost.
here’s the rationale: nobody needs to test for ammonia after a cycle this is known and practiced by the majority who understand filtration dynamics
since it’s 2021 and things have advanced, we now do 100% zero tested cycles and turn out reef after reef using other means of measure. So, no testing for ammonia before, and no testing after.
Nitrite never needs to be tested in reefing at all, it’s neutral. We don’t care about it only ammonia control is needed and we can establish that other ways, without you buying anyone’s test kit.
the only kits that 10/10 reefers can get a square reading with are
calibrated and trimmed seneyes, and for thousands of false stuck cycle posts none are seneye and 100% are color compare kits across brands, we’ve been fixing those stuck cycles without testing anyway. Here’s one we just closed out for example, I did not need to see his test estimations to call the cycle closed and it’s now proofed.
20 gallon QT tank set up 30 days ago. I do not have a DT set up yet, just trying to get a jump on fish to add to my tank and make sure they're healthy and pest free right from the get go. Like I said tank was set up 30 days ago. Sponge filter and HOB filter running sponge and ceramic. Used...
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non test kit markers used and proven: the ammonia drop date from any cycling chart which is day ten ish
factored against the use of bottle bac where cycles are done in about one to four days max
ergo, you buy biospira specifically that brand, add into a tank of rocks and sand, add two pinches of ground up flake food, wait ten days change water you’re cycled and can’t not be cycled.
wanna do one of those here, live time, we make the 235th example live?
(but what if the bottle of biospira is dead lol)
anyone reading, if you can find on the internet one instance of biospira added to a dry start reef tank along with fish, and the fish died fast/ all of them/ a true gray water crash and it’s shown in the thread, I’ll PayPal you a thirty dollar bounty. You have two hours to search Google and show the death post.
guess what there is a bazillion examples of: fish from a cycled tank dying of compound disease emergence in eight months after cycling
Quarantine and fallow are the big deals, not the easy can’t fail bottle bac cycle.
use your money for nitrate and phosphate testing, cycling isn’t worth investing in for testers unless you’re going digital, and even then you’re spending $250 to measure a param we predict with total accuracy. though I love seneye for cycle proofing id never, ever pay money to own one. My own ammonia is running in the thousandths ppm nh3 as we speak and the system hasn’t been tested for ammonia in seventeen years, this is what all displays run at.
