Here’s coral in a 0 day old tank, tracked out to a year after start
how did Ike pull this off:
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.
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key detail: don’t believe the ammonia drop isn’t nearly instant when it occurs just because color kits have a ten day lag to report drops. The limitation on early coral stocking is feed availability and not bioload carry of the system. Today’s reef food options allow zero wait
I like to see reefing this way:
bioload carry readiness isn’t open ended, wait a little longer, or no reef convention could exist. Sellers know exact start date cycling, buyers get the doubt version. The unsure, wait a little longer maybe ready next week option (for a drop that occurs in minutes time, not weeks when measured digitally)
there are threads that show seneye day one cycle setup alongside an api with the api ammonia indicating unsafe ppm ammonia when the seneye ran .04 nh3 and that same seneye meter read .04 on a running reef to benchmark it.
it took api ten days to drop to what others would say is safe, after a long wait. The seneye ran .04 on both tanks the whole time, the running reef and the suspect cycle tank. Only api lagged ten days to indicate the drop after initial setup and dose of test load ammonia. Every cycle is waiting orders of days beyond their actual allowed start date, and it’s not helping to prevent fish disease we’ve found in pattern study. We need direct disease preps in order to protect fish, we had been told in the past that zero nitrite zero ammonia was all it took.
old cycling science replaces focus on fish disease preps with hyperfocus on nitrite being zero, a totally neutral parameter we don’t even have to know during a cycle.
non digital testing procedure issues, skipping nh3 conversion before reporting an ammonia alert in a help thread, has wrecked + set back and harmed updated cycling science but consistent start date ability preserves it. buyers are trained to see a positive nh4 reading and assume water bacteria failed to set up shop in water, and buy replacement bacteria.
buyer-rules cyclers wait open ended days…permission is only from the test kit
in fear of non completion they wait 3x number of days needed, such that bottle bac wasn’t even required so they’re wasting money. A feed-only wait cycle will be ready in fifteen days wait
(re: ammonia drop line of a cycling chart)
we can see from Ike’s thread, bottle bac work right out of the bottle.
Half of these perceived stalls, ammonia drop lags, result in more bottle bac purchased to make up for supposedly dead bacteria it’s all a huge sales ploy meant for buyers.
In any updated cycling science thread, exact start date biology is being practiced and tracked and nobody used bottle bac more than once. Bottle bacteria is never used in live rock skip cycles in our threads. Fish disease preps are given the immediate focus, and nobody has stalled after max ten days wait on a bottle bac cycle.
I acclimated and introduced today 1 lt tang, 1 fairy wrasse @ maybe 2 in, 2 pajama cardinals around 1-2 in, 1 Duncan around 1 in, and 1 rodachtis around 1in.
