Re: [APD] Suggested tank cycling experiment

[Raj <rajendrakumargg at gmail_com>]

My filter media has the same pleasant smell of the first drops of rain on the lawn.
I also get the same smell when I lift floating Riccia or moss.

>Why should we have to buy the requisite bacteria.  Soil has millions of
>varieties of bacteria.  Try this experiment:
>
>> Take a teaspoon of topsoil from your back yard or somewhere where plants are
>> growing (Not from some bag of sterilized ?topsoil¹ from a garden center) and
>> put it in a custard dish or finger bowl and cover with about 2 inches of
>> water.

-- 
Raj, vu2zap
Bengaluru, South India.


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