why is any of this important, why would it matter if one person says a cycle is ready to reef, and another one doesn't agree?
because knowing when to start fish disease preps, the real risk you face, needs to come after a cycle is closed.
you don't have a risk of losing your fish and early tank stockings to a lack of a cycle, see this thread:
I just started a new tank a little over a week ago. I started with all dry rock and new sand. I added a bottle of Bio-Spira and put fish and coral the same day. Never saw any ammonia and fish and coral seem healthy.
www.reef2reef.com
you are giving feed plus ten days for your reef to be ready, for two small fish...this was eight fish a giant anemone and corals all at once, in one day, because bottle bac is that powerful...see how there isn't a cycling risk? the risk is by adding these animals without prep, you are importing disease that pops up 8 mos later
and that doesn't matter how you cycle
the disease forum is chock full of 1-2 month wait cycles still ravaged by disease, because disease control comes independent from the cycle choice = new cycling science. by being advised to wait an arbitrary timeframe for the max bacteria claimed, even though in the study above we see day ten is enough to coat all surfaces (and in the one day fully stocked tank thread above) you are being skipped in being told about disease preps.
the risk to your fish is disease preps not mentioned so far, in the tussle about being ready based on a well-tested already known wait time.
I included an entire reef stocked on day one, with one dose of bottle bac and no ten day wait, to show that you are not at risk of 'tipping' a reef past its ammonia control limits for the type of cycle you employed. what I originally typed to you is just fine, safe, comprises ten years of searchable threads here and it's Jay's disease forum for fallow and quarantine reading you need to be directed to.
There are over a thousand logged seneye cycles on the web, show a calibrated device that didn’t hold baseline nh3 by day ten. One
there are no failed cycles by day ten of any fed + inoculated and carbon-fed display reefs, it’s why none of the charts we can all search agree there’s such a risk.
prediction on file: nobody posts a ten day failed Dr Tims cycle fed by ammonia and fish food *in a reef display tank* link to read in this thread, tracked on a calibrated seneye
it won’t happen in this thread
now that we have the meters to prove it, and they’re logged over a thousand times now, that’s conveniently left out of the warning. There are well enough seneye bottle bac cycles uploaded here and on Facebook for any interested readers to check the prediction and link back but we wont be discussing that truth.
