product safe start any good?
- Thread starter Flamfish
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I am not a chemist,nor do I understand how or why TSS works.Heck,I don't even know how the bacteria I have in all my tanks got there.I have just been stating things I was told along the way,before,during,and after I used this product.It worked for me.And somewhere along the lines,I was told it is a waste of money to use it while doing a fishless cycle with ammonia.Who told me that,I don't know.I have been searching forums trying to find it.All I am doing is passing along information I heard somewhere.
It sounds unreasonable to me that you are not supposed to use it in this manner,and I have the same doubts about it not working in a fishless cycle,like you said,ammonia is ammonia,but I have never tried it in this application.But I also would not want the OP to waste his money on something,when I was told it won't work that way.
When I added it to a tank that had the cycle crash,with fish in it,it worked just like it was supposed to.
It sounds unreasonable to me that you are not supposed to use it in this manner,and I have the same doubts about it not working in a fishless cycle,like you said,ammonia is ammonia,but I have never tried it in this application.But I also would not want the OP to waste his money on something,when I was told it won't work that way.
When I added it to a tank that had the cycle crash,with fish in it,it worked just like it was supposed to.
The only way it would be a waste of money is if the OP got a faulty bottle. The application, again, is going to be the same in both situations. The only difference is that in one, the ammonia source is alive.
How bout someone goes and buys some,and tries it in a fishless cycle.Then,if it doesn't work,it can either be blamed on a bad bottle,or that does not work in that manner.Out side of having a laboratory,there won't be any way of knowing.
The back of the bottle in fact does state that it is to be used with fish.So it would probably be wise to use it as directed.
The back of the bottle in fact does state that it is to be used with fish.So it would probably be wise to use it as directed.
Fine.
I'm not going to question this anymore. My thoughts are there and the OP can choose what to do.
I'm not going to question this anymore. My thoughts are there and the OP can choose what to do.
What does the Safe Start stuff smell like? I ask because I read nitrospira will go dormant if you store it in a strong solution of ammonia. Maybe the ammonia is already in the bottle?
