Cycling my Bathtub!

[beviking]

Originally posted by Luca Brazzi
Well... SOMETHING is growing in the tub. Today I took a good look in there and it seems that there is some kind of brown stuff growing in there so...

All this time and you could've just looked in your toilet for the same stuff!!!!!!!

 

[Luca Brazzi]

To sum this thread up... The bathtub Idea was working... I had gotten to about .1ppm Nitrites in the tub. However, I wouldnt recommend this unless A) You have more than one place to bathe. B) You thoroughly rinse out your tub so there is no soap residue, and C) You find a really good way to stop up the tub so that there are no leaks. I used the plumbers putty to get a pretty good seal, but I still had a very slow leak so Id have to top off the water daily, and add more ammonia/dechlorinator to keep the level up. Unfortunately I didnt continue cycling my media when I moved it to the sump so I ended up starting from square one (the bacteria I grew in the tub died when the media dried out) once I got my tank built....

But then... most people get a filter and a tank at the same time.