bacteria teleportation?

[somebloke]

I just cycled my aquarium (with dry rock and substrate) using chemical ammonia. This might be a dumb question but how the heck did aquatic bacteria find their way into my tank? Moisture in the air? What about the anaerobic bacteria? It would be pretty hard to avoid oxygen on the trip to my water.

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[Tripod1404]

You hands and aerosoled bacteria. There are certain species that can live in both saltwater and freshwater. Those can easily make their way into the tank. There are also large number of anaerobic bacteria living on our body. Right now your tank is probably don't have a diverse bacteria population but a single coral frag, snail shell or fish poop will be the all it takes to improve diversity.


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[Sk8r]

Back in the day, we cycled by begging a bag of tank water from the lfs, and waited 8 weeks. And yes, sometimes it brought you something you might not want, but 8 weeks is long enough for it to die out, fishless and unable to reproduce, as far as ich goes. [which is several orders of life higher than a bacterium, but it's too small to see.] You'll get new bacteria with every specimen, some that you might not have seen before. Frequently somebody posts with a 'what is this white/brown/fluffy/slimy/green stuff, and sometimes we can guess and say, "Oh, I had that for a while." or "Yep. it comes and goes."

 

[Stolireef]

When you start a new tank, a Tau Beta particle is emitted. These Tau Beta particles are able to travel through N space thus avoiding the Einstein limitation on mass travelling faster than the speed of light. Reef Central continuously scans N space from its remote station in the Vega cluster. Upon receiving the signal, RC Vega creates a quantum pair with the Tau Beta particle and returns the same to your tank along with several strains of bacteria. Voila.

Sorry. Sometimes I get a little to far into my other favorite hobby, Sci Fi writing.

 

[Ron Reefman]

somebloke, do you know that the human body has more individual bacteria on and in it, than it has individual human cells! Bacteria are everywhere!

Stolireef, nice SciFi rant. I liked it. I started a SciFi novel after a divorce and got about 300 pages into it (about 2/3rds done). Then I moved to SW Florida and met the love of my life and I never finished the book. But writing it was fun!