alivenwell82
Aquarium Advice Apprentice
I started cycling my 10 gallon with a product called Turbo Start 21 days ago. It is refrigerated, like Bio-Spira, and claims to cycle your tank in five days with live bacteria. It sells for six bucks for a six ounce bottle that treats 40 gallons. It did not cycle my tank in five days. However, I have completed the cycle in a reasonable 21 days with no catastrophic ammonia or nitrite spikes, despite a medium-sized bio-load (see sig.). The spikes were noticable, but limited. The highest ammonia reading was .25 ppm and the nitrites reached 1-2 ppm only one day. This was with 25 percent water changes daily on days 10-15.
None of this means anything conclusive. But it was a reasonable, though not instant, cycle that, as near as I can tell based on water parameters and their behavior, didn't seem to bother my fish at all. If you can get bio-spira, you probably should. But if you can't, I have no complaints with Turbo Start.
None of this means anything conclusive. But it was a reasonable, though not instant, cycle that, as near as I can tell based on water parameters and their behavior, didn't seem to bother my fish at all. If you can get bio-spira, you probably should. But if you can't, I have no complaints with Turbo Start.
