This is a neat cycle as you’re using bacteria fairly rare here, most our cycles are Dr. Tims, biospira or Fritz. nice to have a new strain for once.
Your timing is still new it’s not like we are day 25 still stuck but close to day ~15 you’re in line with most other questionable dose cycles, you can expect to be ready on or about that maximum date as a common cycling chart shows that as an ammonia drop date.
Dr Z mentioned waste-digesting strains, indeed that may be the case and they’re often able to run dual duty as cycling bacteria as well. MB7 is a common dual-duty bac
agreed fully they may work slower than cycle-specific strains, agreed. More sales if aqua forest can claim dual use (cleaning a tank and cycling) per bottle.
*chemistry forum testing showed digesting bac strains such as waste away to be largely unhelpful in aquaria, they didn’t reduce detritus in Tarichas careful tests logged there. Whether they’re good at cycling, who knows- need seneye to know in my opinion.
it would take precision seneye testing to know which date sooner you’re ready if any.
Here’s why I specially narrowed down on day fifteen vs any random pickable date:
1. Meets the ammonia drop date from all cycling charts. A well-tested action date across bottled cycles. Remove shrimp and do full water change on day fifteen, its ready and surfaces will retain the filter bacteria. We test these daily and gain valuable pattern feedback, I don’t recall any fails on this date (fifteen days of submersion after feeding and adding a bottle bac)
Not one bad start among thousands of participated cycles by day fifteen. Day fifteen is slow in bottle bac terms; true cycling strains will carry bioload immediately when added to the tank, just find any fish-in cycle ran on seneye to see, there are a few out there.
2. here is a worst case scenario timing you can track for date claims. This is a 30 day cycle, but it’s feed only. NO bottle bac at all, environmental free bacteria when simply fed will fully cycle in 30 days. Even if your bottle bac was zero helpful for cycling, thirty days is the max time it would take anyway as you’ve fed the system.
Hi all. Long time member (I think I joined right around when R2R started or took off years ago) but got out of the hobby for about 6 years and now I am back! I don't see many build threads for the PM 15 (mostly the 25) so thought I'd share my journey here. This post will be a bit behind...
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cutting the time to 15 days here is prudent because there’s no reason to think your bac don’t assist at all in cycling, they’re just not Fritz or biospira fast possibly. The reason we only focused on ammonia and not any other param is because thats how I’ve been cycling other people’s reefs for a while now, it’s two less mistesting params to worry about. of the three cycling params, ammonia is the one that burns so it’s what we solve for in start date assessment.
