Mercury64
Aquarium Advice Regular
Hi all, you will remember I had a problem with my tank after upgrading from hang on filters to a wet and dry
my tank was not cycling, in fact it was stuck in limbo, for almost two months my ammonia read .25 but no nitrites what so ever
I got to the point where I decided to add this chemical (all natural) called stablizer by sea chem which is just a bunch of different tapes of bacteria ,believe me it works, I cycled a 250 gal tank with this stuff in 7 days, no lie
Anyway not even this stuff worked which I found strange, I started to wonder what was going on, i'm not missing anyone so theres nothing dead causing these readings, the fact of the matter was something was not alowing my tank to cycle ,something was not allowing my ammonia or nitrtites to peak
The more I thought about it I started to think what is different from the last time I had to cyle and now and it hit me, new bacteria can not form and promote with a uv light as it distoys it before it has a chance to work ,I unpluged my light and now i'm getting the type of readings one would expect for a tank that is cycling
Just thought I would shae that with you all
my tank was not cycling, in fact it was stuck in limbo, for almost two months my ammonia read .25 but no nitrites what so ever
I got to the point where I decided to add this chemical (all natural) called stablizer by sea chem which is just a bunch of different tapes of bacteria ,believe me it works, I cycled a 250 gal tank with this stuff in 7 days, no lie
Anyway not even this stuff worked which I found strange, I started to wonder what was going on, i'm not missing anyone so theres nothing dead causing these readings, the fact of the matter was something was not alowing my tank to cycle ,something was not allowing my ammonia or nitrtites to peak
The more I thought about it I started to think what is different from the last time I had to cyle and now and it hit me, new bacteria can not form and promote with a uv light as it distoys it before it has a chance to work ,I unpluged my light and now i'm getting the type of readings one would expect for a tank that is cycling
Just thought I would shae that with you all