jetajockey
come get me tang police!
It would be cool if it worked as simply as people often put it. The documentation does claim that they grow exponentially but I also believe this is under optimal conditions. I've cycled many tanks from small store displays bursting with fish to a few tiny fish in a huge tank. One thing I've learned from it is for the easiest cycle I have to stock very lightly and add some low demand plants.jjustinia11 said:As far as bio load is concerned, there are three filters in there. each has a bio filter component. the two sponges from angels plus are huge. I would think that if bacteria were doubling every 24 hours that it would be able to handle the bio load in the tank now. there is plenty of substrate to colonize. If I had 4 fish in there and it took 3 days to handle that load, then on the 4thday it should be able to handle 8 fish and then on the 5 th day it should be able to handle 12 fish...thoughts?
Its been two weeks so plenty of time for bacteria to multiply if they were there...
I know its not an attractive option to have to move fish out but I look at it from a workload standpoint. If 20 fish bioload means I have to do a wc every 24hr then removing half of that should effectively expand my wc interval to 48hr and so on and so forth. Its just a rough guideline but the goal for me is to eliminate the 'omgosh fish in cycling is so hard because you have to do constant pwc' type circumstances.