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Ahhhh there you are !!! The Vice Admiral of "nitrifiers out of the tap". (still chuckling about that one). No, I had a PhD friend comment on your outrageous and embarrassing proclamation that nitrifying bacteria come to you through your tap water. I didn't need him to say anything about...

Oh here we go with "various papers". Man if I had a nickel for every time I've heard that as some kind of "evidence" I'd be a rich man. I recently read a paper stating how nitrifying bacteria can come from tap water. The theory was that the bacteria mutate to resist levels of anti-bacterial...

Pastabake is absolutely right on this. He's done his homework. Bacteria do not have to be refrigerated unless it's over-concentrated. Otherwise it doesn't. Your aquarium isn't refrigerated so that nips that theory in the bud. Yes, if bacteria aren't metabolizing it doesn't need to eat. The...

Crix, What part of the country are you in? In some parts of the country the tap water is so clean that it contains no phosphate or necessary trace elements. I live in Northern California (Dublin) and this happened to me. I read a dead zero phosphate out of the tap which means that...

In all fairness, put yourself in my shoes for one minute. I've cycled aquariums in 2-4 days with nitrosomonas and nitrobacter and your Andy guy is telling me I didn't without providing any reasons on how it could have. To refute it he copied and pasted verbage from a very, very, very small...

Here's a great test for Super Bac and I encourage anyone to try it: Get a 20 gallon tank. Put in 5 black mollies. Feed them. 4 hours later dump in a half 16oz bottle of Super Bac freshwater. On day 3 fill up your aquarium. On day 4 take ammonia/nitrite/nitrate levels and post it here...

I'm not spam thank you. And if the first post of the thread is spam then I'm glad it got spammed because it made me go this direction with Super Bac. I researched the nitrospira because I was trying to decide on Bio-Spira or the Super Bac stuff my LFS guy swears by. I live in Orange, CA and...

Well, I found this thread (among a few others) when I was running searches on the Superbac stuff. I went and got it and WOW. That's all I can say. Well, WOW for two reasons. WOW it really smells bad, WOW I cycled my 90 gallon reef set up in 3 days... and even with an 80 gallon dose. Cycled...

What kind of livestock are you gonna put in it?