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Re: [APD] Getting shot of Nitrate Xperiment



I believe Robert T. Ricketts wrote this email section below:
> Stuart Halliday wrote, in response to a question on bacterial inoculation:
> 
>> Does the substrate and the internal filter sponge count?
> 
> Not unless they were moved from a mature tank, so were already seeded with
> nitrification bacteria.  Otherwise, establishing a nitrification cycle is a
> matter of chance. In my opinion, that is a waste of time and effort.  Add
> the right bugs and it will build mature colonies quickly.

They were all bleached.
The idea of the experiment was to test out methods of fishless cycling.

I did basic ammonia adding first and a test with ammonia with a mature 
sponge from a mature filter rinsed out into the tank. These took the longest 
to cycle - 40 days.

The 2nd one actually got stuck as ammonia got very quickly converted to 
nitrite within a few days. But no nitrite conversion to nitrate.

I read 5ppm (the max. my test kit goes up to) and I waited 5 days. Then I 
did a 50% water change and still got 5ppm so it was pretty high.

I diluted the nitrite levels right down to 1ppm and then the nitrite to 
nitrate bacteria kicked in.

-- 
Stuart Halliday
http://mytriops.com/
200 Million years in the making...
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