How Long Does It Take To Seed Filter Media

September tenth 03, 08:32 PM

"RedForeman ��" wrote in message
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Seeding with the right leaner (type, and sub-species which already
likes your water parameters) will reduce your cycling time to, in
some
cases, aught, and at the other farthermost, a week or two.

Correct, I think the above chip is the crux of my confusion. I

understand
cycling and have done a few fishless cycles, mainly with ammonium
bicarbonate because until now I never had an old tank going when the
new
one was cycling. With the amm.bic. information technology took a week or so to go the
levels to a signal where you lot could call the tank cycled.
With my new tank, I put the new filter on my sometime tank and was told to
go out it 2-3 weeks for the leaner to abound. Your post unsaid that

this
could sometimes exist nigh immediate, sometimes a week or ii. My
confusion was nigh this variation. If information technology tin be washed instantly, why
am
I sitting waiting for weeks (apart from the obvious fact that I
haven't
actually got the new tank yet !!).

If you are waiting for the leaner to slowly migrate over to the new
filter through the water, and so 2-3 weeks sounds reasonable. Remember
that this bacteria coats surfaces, and is non in any dandy numbers in the
h2o column. If you take the former filter media and stuff it into the new
filter, then you are good to become, with some cautions for a few days. If
you clasp the sometime filter into your new filter, then you lot have seeded it,
profoundly improving (decreasing) your cycling time.

I was waiting for the respond to come up thru also, but trying not to
confuse the
upshot, I tore my tank down recently and only kept 5g from a 29g tank,
the
water the fish were in, and when I set it back upwards, three hrs later, I just
added
water from the hose, put in the dechlor, added the filter, ran information technology for
4-v
hours, added the fish back in, no ill effects...

Also, recently set up a 10g, put plants in as I didn't take the fish

yet,
and the filter had been used on another tank that was used only empty...
It
had plants, and took 3 weeks before ammonia was gone... on my 29, information technology
was
gone in 4 hours.... never will empathise cycling in it'south fullest....

Lots of factors at work. The bacteria coats your hoses, heater, drinking glass,
gravel etc etc. The lower the pH, the less active your leaner will exist.
The more plants, the less bacteria, as they compete for the same ammonia.
If simply 1/2 the ammonia is available for your nitrosomonas, then the side by side
bacterias (nitrobacter/nitrospira) will have half equally much nitrite to live
off of. Nitrifying bacteria exist in the air. The hypothesis is that in
whatever area of concentrated bodies of bio-loaded h2o (fish-rooms, LFS,
fish farm hangars etc) or during exposure to the air (tank teardowns)
that there is so much in the air, that cycling is greatly abbreviated.
I've never seen data to support this, just it makes some sense, as the
initial seed to bike is sometimes just what falls from the air.

NetMax