Cycling Sponge Filter With Ammonia Bicarbonate, Doing it the fishless way |
Cycling Sponge Filter With Ammonia Bicarbonate, Doing it the fishless way |
square_guy |
Sun, 16 May 2004 11:05 am
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Method:
- Use a 2 gallon tank, put in 2 sponge filter. run at max airflow. - put in a pinch of ammonia bicarbonate which can be bought from phoon huat. - "toxic" on Seachem ammonia alert. - buffer water well. 1 week later: - "safe" on ammonia alert. - nitrite is off the chart on test kit. - nitrate is off the chart on test kit. Conclusion: - necesssary bacteria for breaking down both ammonia and nitrite are already present. only issue left is the quantity of such colony. - is the filter cycled? this have to depend on final stocking ratio and feeding... - sponge filter is really really fast acting... ps: this is only for cycling filters, not for kickstarting green water. I suspect it'll not work for green water as the algae is probably targetting organic waste instead of inorganic ammonia. |
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