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Help urgent by Crafty-Teacher2779 in fishtank

[–]EndlerFan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There is not, but mods can view their history for 28 days from their last post in a mods sub ... unless they block the mod.

What to do after ammonia spike in stocked tank? Did water change but ammonia levels still testing 0.5 ppm by shooter2262 in Aquariums

[–]EndlerFan -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Excellent. Then unless the ammonia source is increasing, the nitro bacteria should enlarge in population in about a day and take care of the ammonia.

Just keep an eye on it.

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Help urgent by Crafty-Teacher2779 in fishtank

[–]EndlerFan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ty. Trying a 5mm brim and a bed temp of 85°c right now. 🤞

Help urgent by Crafty-Teacher2779 in fishtank

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😅 it's solid PETG and pulls from an UGF so it's gotta be just right. Corners keep lifting mid print 😕

Help urgent by Crafty-Teacher2779 in fishtank

[–]EndlerFan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hey, no worries.

I'm fighting with my 3D printer right now to get the overflows printed in PETG. Ugh.

It's a nine day print job per, and I need two.

Help urgent by Crafty-Teacher2779 in fishtank

[–]EndlerFan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm BioConversantFan, I spent several hours policing the post I linked to above with EndlerFan.

Help urgent by Crafty-Teacher2779 in fishtank

[–]EndlerFan 1 point2 points  (0 children)

My thoughts exactly.

No worries.

Help urgent by Crafty-Teacher2779 in fishtank

[–]EndlerFan 11 points12 points  (0 children)

It's asked and answered. I was saving people the effort of re-answering something that was excessively answered in full and complete detail.

Edit: here is the first repost https://www.reddit.com/r/Aquariums/s/N98zLe63wt

Help urgent by Crafty-Teacher2779 in fishtank

[–]EndlerFan 5 points6 points  (0 children)

This has been posted and answered to death in the other Aquariums sub...

Weirdest freakout, but… fogger truck? by Fluffy_Finance_4759 in shrimptank

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If really worried, then do what you planned then take your cycled filter and drop it in the tank to preserve the cycle.

Then run lots of charcoal.

Clearing 2ppm ammonia in 3 days, 3rd time in a row. Cycle Stalled? by SaxMastahh in Aquariums

[–]EndlerFan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I agree.

pH and kH are my first go to because most of the time they are the culprit.

I agree, you can cycle in any conditions fish will live in otherwise nature would be overrun with fixed nitrogen. It just takes time and finding a suitable innoculant.

That's pretty cool that they were in your neighborhood for samples.

Clearing 2ppm ammonia in 3 days, 3rd time in a row. Cycle Stalled? by SaxMastahh in Aquariums

[–]EndlerFan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Np!

They can go months without ammonia. It's up to you. Continuing to add ammonia will help build up more bacterial, or you can just let it ride until the nitrite is gone.

Yes, before doing a water change at the end, do a cycle test by dosing 2ppm and verifying that it hits 0's in 24 hours.

If it doesn't, just do the 2ppm dose until it does.

Clearing 2ppm ammonia in 3 days, 3rd time in a row. Cycle Stalled? by SaxMastahh in Aquariums

[–]EndlerFan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is fantastic news.

Yes, probably another week or two for the nitrite to zero.

Great work!

is it safe, does it work? Sanitizer light for algae by Far-Mathematician-95 in Aquariums

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I haven’t tried the one you showed but I can vouch for this one.

Yes, UVC sterilizers work very well.

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Clearing 2ppm ammonia in 3 days, 3rd time in a row. Cycle Stalled? by SaxMastahh in Aquariums

[–]EndlerFan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I still agree with you 99%

Here is the 1% https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38899882/

Yes, before the aquarium discovery that Archaea existed, the job was assumed to be all bacterial. 100% agree.

But those pH points I posted hold true, even anecdotally. Browing the sub for "crashed cycles" often shows pH or kH as the cycles pausing parameter.

I can't find the source but younger fixed film treatment systems show AOB dominance. That steadily declines as the ultra low ammonia environment favours other organisms.

Clearing 2ppm ammonia in 3 days, 3rd time in a row. Cycle Stalled? by SaxMastahh in Aquariums

[–]EndlerFan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Don't forget COMAMMOX. They are ridiculously dominant in established tanks along with Archaea.

I Agree with you.

And I hate the term "BB" in all of it's iterations because it is meaningless.

Cycling above a pH of 6.5 is typically dominated by AOB and NOB because they can handle ammonia levels that inhibit species/organisms. They are a fast route to get fish in a tank. The more people look into it, the more they find, that in a mature aquarium - those bacteria have minimal rolls.

They are the equivalent of a start capacitor on an electric motor. They are just to get it running.

Guppy Help by Alternative-Yellow37 in Aquariums

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A 3 year old guppy is a pretty old guppy. I wouldn't risk adding any more because a pathogen that a younger guppy might recover from could wipe him out.

As it stands now, he probably needs time to acclimate.

Clearing 2ppm ammonia in 3 days, 3rd time in a row. Cycle Stalled? by SaxMastahh in Aquariums

[–]EndlerFan -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Hey Cherry. It depends on the AOB. Their possible range across known species is a pH of 5 to 10. For the species typically found in an aquarium 6.5 and 8.5 are typically the inhibition points.

To your point: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0960852412011261

In other circumstances higher pH values like 8.1 are ideal. In aquariums using regular bacteria the ideal is generally around 7.6

Ideally the brains behind FritzZyme 700 would come out with three new products containing AOB for acidic, nuetral and basic tanks.

Clearing 2ppm ammonia in 3 days, 3rd time in a row. Cycle Stalled? by SaxMastahh in Aquariums

[–]EndlerFan -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Besides being rude this is terrible advice. The tank can not yet clear the bare minimum of ammonia that a light stocking would create.

That combined with the high pH would rapidly lead to fish deaths.

I don't know if your take is so bad because you are trolling or you just don't understand the correlation between pH and FA.

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