Live Rock Cycling Advice Wanted

[Miss Wiggle]

Put it in a FW context. How often would we tell people to put in fully cycled filter media, and then wait a week before adding fish? We wouldn't, because in that time the colony will have started to die off and will not be as useful to us as right at the start. MW's point on fishless cycling is slightly different as in a fishless cycle in FW one is constantly feeding the bacteria with ammonia, so the bacteria do not die from being left.

i was perhaps not clear, in fishless cycling and in this context i'd advise people to feed the bacteria to check that ammonia is being processed appropriately

 

[sophos9]

Throw a prawn in, that will get things moving