a good thought for discussion

oh no nikos pulled the popcorn guy out:headshake2: LOL!
another thought wat if your air is very unhumid and you set-up a new sterile tank?
 
another thought wat if your air is very unhumid and you set-up a new sterile tank?

That's a good point. Faeries are generally found in humid environments, like in woodlands close to streams and rivers.
 
the bacteria are present in and on everything. whether or not they are in an active state is a completely different thing. once they are place in an environment to thrive, they will begin to reproduce and become more abundant

and its air borne; borne as in carried.
 
oh no nikos pulled the popcorn guy out:headshake2: LOL!
another thought wat if your air is very unhumid and you set-up a new sterile tank?

Starting an aquarium takes much longer if this is the case. Although you have to realize that no air has 0% humidity and the size of a bacterium is very small so really doesn't need a huge amount of water. But realistically speaking, it still take a along time to get enough if you don't have another source (like used filter media).
 
Bacteria cannot be formed simply from ammonia. Ammonia is not a living organism. Plus most of the packaged foods that people sometimes use for starting cycles are packaged in such a way that there's no possibility of aquatic bacteria surviving on it.


Those products are the things which bacteria grow from, not 'bacteria in a bottle' as they claim them to be....
 
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