Is it necessary to continue adding bacteria to an already cycled system?
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@Brandon429,lovin'it,It's amazing how we and I include myself,gofor the marketing ploysI always feel the need to counter balance the huge surge in bottle bac purchases. its a nerd impulse.
that seems not very nice to bb sellers am aware, there's no harm using the stuff
but we find so many fun redirects where we catch 'em right before the purchase, ask em not to, they post results updates for weeks later and all is happy. I like to press against online buying trends with those types of patterns its just market shaping w good science imo.
the organic reserves are such that your tank can go twenty years and still pass not a joke.
check out this very, very cool inversion of the rules:
Steven started this completed cycle DRY and with no feed and no bottle bac. truly unassisted
rocks had NO organic stores they all vectored in naturally.
only water, and a pump, and sixty days wait.
and it self cycled the whole thing
see how as a reflection/inversion its not possible to starve your tank for any length of time based on what he did? this post from MSteven below is one of the most important microbiology posts this hobby will see in 2021
Bacteria in a bottle, Myth or Fact
Did the online calc indicate to use one mil in the tank for your gallonage
based on that study and the collective reference of all cycling charts, no cycle can be starved once its set in while using an open topped non sealed reef tank in a home. too dirty. constant feed in and out. leave a glass of tap water on your windowsill 30 days its cycled for a basic bioload relative to the surface area inside the cup. that's sick, mother nature is awesome.
We are in the midst of the same thing with one of our tanks. We continue to feed the coral, anemones, inverts and copepods. I use Hikari Crab Cuisine rapidly sinking sticks for all the different inverts, I spot feed the anemones and coral as usual (which includes my cleaner shrimp who always comes up for a piece of shrimp or clam) and I broadcast feed here and there a little bit of frozen brine shrimp or frozen cyclopods for the filter feeders. Some of the coral, like the duncans, will catch the brine shrimp and eat it. I dose a little phyto for the copepods whom have exploded in population since nobody’s eating them.
At 80° temp minimum.
Isn't this with the big caveat that the temp needs to be held around 81 F?
Feel free to crucify me, but I bought a $10 smaller bottle of MicroBacter7 for this exact reason because I figured I'm better safe than sorryI always feel the need to counter balance the huge surge in bottle bac purchases. its a nerd impulse.
that seems not very nice to bb sellers am aware, there's no harm using the stuff
but we find so many fun redirects where we catch 'em right before the purchase, ask em not to, they post results updates for weeks later and all is happy. I like to press against online buying trends with those types of patterns its just market shaping w good science imo.
the organic reserves are such that your tank can go twenty years and still pass not a joke.
check out this very, very cool inversion of the rules:
Steven started this completed cycle DRY and with no feed and no bottle bac. truly unassisted
rocks had NO organic stores they all vectored in naturally.
only water, and a pump, and sixty days wait.
and it self cycled the whole thing
see how as a reflection/inversion its not possible to starve your tank for any length of time based on what he did? this post from MSteven below is one of the most important microbiology posts this hobby will see in 2021
Bacteria in a bottle, Myth or Fact
Did the online calc indicate to use one mil in the tank for your gallonage
based on that study and the collective reference of all cycling charts, no cycle can be starved once its set in while using an open topped non sealed reef tank in a home. too dirty. constant feed in and out. leave a glass of tap water on your windowsill 30 days its cycled for a basic bioload relative to the surface area inside the cup. that's sick, mother nature is awesome.
80.6 deg is said to reduce fallow time in which you could plan on 45 days max. The issue I have with raising temperature is: When temperature increases, oxygen decreases but then again there would be no fish within the tank
