Is Biozyme good to help cycle?

[jm667]

I have had my tank set up for 2 weeks now trying a fishless cycle. I added amonia at the start to get it up to 5ppm, and still after 2 weeks, no nitrites and the ammonia is the same. I was at the store today and picked up some biozyme that i saw there, but just thought I'd check on the forum here to see if it is good a thing or not to use that. Will that speed up the cycling, or am I better off just letting it do it on its own?

 

[mgamer20o0]

no. i dont trust it. a handful of gravel or some media from a filter will be best.

 

[severum mama]

I'm not familiar with that product. Since you are doing a fishless cycle anyway, IMO it can't hurt to try it. If you do, let us know how it works.

 

[jm667]

Yeah I guess it can't hurt. I am not putting fish in it until it cycles anyways so it shouldn't hurt. I am going to be away most of the week so maybe if it doesn't start showing nitrtites by Friday I will try it out. I would grab some gravel out of my 10 gallon tank, but there are lots of snails in there that I have been battling, so with my luck there will be some snail eggs or tiny ones I can't see in the gravel I pull out and then the new tank will be infested!

 

[jm667]

Oh well, I guess I don't need to use it. I just tested tonight and am finally getting nitrites! So I'll just let it go on its own. So just to make sure I understand this right, the ammonia will start to go down, and I just need to add ammonia when it does to keep it at around 4-5 ppm?

 

[severum mama]

Can you at least get your money back?

 

[neil_04]

i guess its to late but i used cycle on my tank i added no actual ammonia just flake food and a shrimp pellet about every 4 days and its fully cycled now. only took me 2 and a half weeks