Safe Start Update
Put my bottle of safe start in last night and am very impressed. Lemme give you some background first. Set up our 29g exactly two weeks ago. 5 days after that, added a serpae tetra and gold barb for cycling. Since putting the fish in, I have had a hard time maintaining low ammonia levels. Testing everyday, ammonia reading between .25 and .5 and nitrites and nitrates at 0. I was doing a 50% water change every other day and still could not get the ammonia down and could not get a nitrite reading above 0. 24 hours after adding the Safe Start, my ammonia is now reading between .25 and 0, nitrite and .25 and nitrate at 5.0. I do not believe these reading magically happened naturally over 1 night. I fully believe the Safe Start really jumped kicked my cycle. I will continue to test everyday and will update how long before ammonia and nitrite are at 0.
P.S. I know many here disagree with fish in cycling and will call what I am doing hurting the fish especially considering my high ammonia levels. This is the route I chose and I was doing everything I could to try and keep the level down. Lets try to save any issues you might have with this for the many threads dedicated to fish-in or fishless cycles and keep this thread on track regarding products for cycling assistance.
Put my bottle of safe start in last night and am very impressed. Lemme give you some background first. Set up our 29g exactly two weeks ago. 5 days after that, added a serpae tetra and gold barb for cycling. Since putting the fish in, I have had a hard time maintaining low ammonia levels. Testing everyday, ammonia reading between .25 and .5 and nitrites and nitrates at 0. I was doing a 50% water change every other day and still could not get the ammonia down and could not get a nitrite reading above 0. 24 hours after adding the Safe Start, my ammonia is now reading between .25 and 0, nitrite and .25 and nitrate at 5.0. I do not believe these reading magically happened naturally over 1 night. I fully believe the Safe Start really jumped kicked my cycle. I will continue to test everyday and will update how long before ammonia and nitrite are at 0.
P.S. I know many here disagree with fish in cycling and will call what I am doing hurting the fish especially considering my high ammonia levels. This is the route I chose and I was doing everything I could to try and keep the level down. Lets try to save any issues you might have with this for the many threads dedicated to fish-in or fishless cycles and keep this thread on track regarding products for cycling assistance.
