Cycling A Tank Faster..

[Stuart60611]

Prodibio Biodigest is a good choice. It is unrefrigeratored, but it sold in vacume glass tubes where you literally have to break the glass to dose the bacteria. This is how the insure that you get live and uncontaminated bacteria . Cheapest and most reliable truly live nitrifying bacteria that I have found.

 

[Pufferpunk]

I never understand how a nitrifying bacteria can be kept alive without air or food & not kept in refrigerated suspension.

 

[Mr James]

This last tank I just set up did not cycle. That's right!! We ordered 100lbs of live rock from Richard at TBS (RC sponsor no less). The rock came in so fresh nothing died. Brand new tank, brand new system, no cycle. I posted on RC somewhere if I should force the cycle and they said no.

So the fastest way to cycle is not to cycle at all!!

 

[fragboy94]

I hate to say it but im prolly the craziest one here when I got my 72 I filled it with totaly new ro water then added salt then aft the salt cleared I added totally new sand then took abt 1 day for the sandstorm to subside and then the 3rd day I moved everything over from my 40 gallon abt 50 pounds of LR and 6 fish and tons of corals sps and softies and everything survived and I never had a algea bloom or any algea problems and after a week of running I tested it and all parameters were normal my lfs said I was crazy when I told them but I am very impatient so I guess my cycle took 2 days

 

[Pufferpunk]

Where was the 2 days? Was there any ammonia/nitrite? When you move everything from an established existing tank to a new tank, you also move all the nitrifying bacteria with it. Generally, no cycle happens.

 

[khanb31]

I think everyone is taking this a little bit too specific. Lets take a look at nature and make just a general statement that I think everyone can agree with. Nature does not do anything in vain and the simplest answer tends to be the right one.

Lets take fire for example. Just plain and simple, hot fire. It needs three things to make it and make it larger.

1- oxygen
2- fuel
3- ignition source

So, as far as I see it, those points made above in the first post of this thread are quite accurate. Youll notice that if you do any research on population booms, they have a few things in common.

1- high levels of oxygen (like above)
2- excess of food (fuel)
3- sunlight (everything living usually needs sunlight....)
4- room to move about

I imagine that for bacteria....you dont need much room.......so ill consider that point mute. However, the other issue of temperature comes into play. Think about yourself, would you want to get all frisky with someone if it was cold outside? I dont think so, so i say that raising the temperature in the aquarium is a good idea.

I agree with all of those points on the first post. Some of them are just doing a different method to achieve the same goal though.