Anybody ever used this and what have your results been. I have been working on cycling my tank now for two weeks with the typical slow but steady results. I am fortunate enough to have a very very reputable and beautiful fish store near my house so I decided to drop by today just to see what they had as it's been awhile since I've had an aquarium. This store is far from a petsmart or anything of that nature. This store would be any fish lovers dream with outstanding and very knowledgeable owners. They recommended me to this product. They use it to get all of their tanks going so I just wanted to see how it has worked for anyone else that's used it. They said I could put about half my bio load in the tank after 48 hours and the other half after 7 days. I'm sure I'm gonna get drilled on here but I've seen the research done by Texas A&M as well as several other major colleges on this product and it's legit. This fish store is on it's second expansion since it's open 4 years ago and I know business doesn't grow like that without being very knowledgable of your products, havering top of the line products, and most importantly not steering people the wrong way.
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flitabout
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I'm sorry I've never heard of it.
threnjen
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I've kind of heard of it.
FritzZyme contains Nitrobacter as their nitrite-eating bacteria. Recent scientific studies have shown that the primary nitrite-eating bacteria in aquaria is Nitrospira, which is a different bacterial family. (Havonec et al, 1998)
If you feed your tank FritzZyme instead of doing a straight fishless cycle, you may see a reduced cycle length of about 4 weeks, but not an instant cycle. And that's not because the bacteria in FritzZyme will stick in your filter, but because it has some "food" that will make your nitrite-eating bacteria grow right away.
Products that contain the proper bacteria (Nitrospira) include Tetra SafeStart or Dr Tim's One and Only.
So my guess is that FritzZyme is not going to work that well.
Anyway this is what I would say based on what *I've* read, but it seems you've seen different. I'm wondering if you'd be willing to link your research to me? As you might have noticed, I'm interested
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FritzZyme contains Nitrobacter as their nitrite-eating bacteria. Recent scientific studies have shown that the primary nitrite-eating bacteria in aquaria is Nitrospira, which is a different bacterial family. (Havonec et al, 1998)
If you feed your tank FritzZyme instead of doing a straight fishless cycle, you may see a reduced cycle length of about 4 weeks, but not an instant cycle. And that's not because the bacteria in FritzZyme will stick in your filter, but because it has some "food" that will make your nitrite-eating bacteria grow right away.
Products that contain the proper bacteria (Nitrospira) include Tetra SafeStart or Dr Tim's One and Only.
So my guess is that FritzZyme is not going to work that well.
Anyway this is what I would say based on what *I've* read, but it seems you've seen different. I'm wondering if you'd be willing to link your research to me? As you might have noticed, I'm interested
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