bio-spira

[cbster]

i was fishless cycling my tank and found a place to buy bio-spira so i bought it and put it in my tank and they say you can add fish the next day so if i do a water change and drop the ammonia can i add fish or should i just let it cycle thanks

 

[A.K.A Zak]

if i do a water change and drop the ammonia

do that, and then let it cycle for a week or two. should be fine.

 

[Lithril]

The biospira will add the bacteria to the tank but it'll still need to colonise the gravel and filter and multiply to sufficient levels, keep going with the cycling as normal, to add fish too early will just cause new tank syndrome.

 

[Moe]

I did a fishless cycle on a 10G and I used bio spira. The entire cycle took 8 days. I have also done a fishless cycle without bio spira it also took 8 days. I used gravel and live plants to seed the tank on both. I did not see any difference. It is also really expensive. Oh, so my point was just because you use bio spira does not mean that the tank is cycled, I have tested it and it did not hold true in my case.