Bio spira.

[Jayva]

Okay so. Cured live rock. Natures ocean live sand.

 

Ammonia was .25PPM. Added sand. Checked a day later (today) it's .50 PPM. Nitrites stay at 0. Didn't check nitrates today. I had a gift card at petco for a couple hundred so I bought a bottle of bio spira and dumped the whole thing in there.

 

Was that a bad idea? I don't run skimmers or carbon. Waiting til cycles done to run Carbon. The aq20 has sponge. Filter floss and those ceramic biomax rings

[Jayva]

I found the culprits. I have a lot of dead cope pods I'm guessing they died in the bag of live sand. Leaving them in there as an ammonia source. The ones on my rock are still alive running around. Snails are still alive. And that 6 inch bristle worm is still alive that I wish would die cus it's too big. lol

 

Or should I turkey baste the dead ones out?

[Kellie in CA]

I doubt it will hurt anything, but it might not help anything either.

 

Just wait it out and keep testing.

[ReefSafeSolutions]

If there are a ton it might introduce enough ammonia to take out your CUC, but I wouldn't worry too much about it since your rock is cured. Adding the BioSpira wasn't a bad idea, as I understand it, you can't overdose that stuff. The more bacteria the better, I suppose.

[Jayva]

If there are a ton it might introduce enough ammonia to take out your CUC, but I wouldn't worry too much about it since your rock is cured. Adding the BioSpira wasn't a bad idea, as I understand it, you can't overdose that stuff. The more bacteria the better, I suppose.

Oh I don't have a CUC. Just 3 stromella snails that hitch hiked.

[ReefSafeSolutions]

Ah, my bad...I thought you meant CUC snails! In that case, yeah no need to worry. Those stomatella snails are awesome, I wish I didn't lose mine to the wavemaker!

[Jayva]

Ah, my bad...I thought you meant CUC snails! In that case, yeah no need to worry. Those stomatella snails are awesome, I wish I didn't lose mine to the wavemaker!

Yeah theirs nothing in there. Gonna let it spike and do whatever it wants I'm not doing WCs cus theirs nothing to save from ammo. I'm just doing half a cup top offs to keep the salt creep down.

[Proudgeek]

I just cycled my cube with it and it worked great. On day 6, the cube had already gone thru 2ppm ammonia twice . I didn't fokkow the instructions/dosage and dumped most of the bottle in there though.

[Jayva]

I just cycled my cube with it and it worked great. On day 6, the cube had already gone thru 2ppm ammonia twice . I didn't fokkow the instructions/dosage and dumped most of the bottle in there though.

The instructions actually say dump it all in. Lol. How many gallons is your cube. And how long did your cycle take after adding bio spira?

[Proudgeek]

The instructions actually say dump it all in. Lol. How many gallons is your cube. And how long did your cycle take after adding bio spira?

The 250ml bottle says to dump the whole bottle up to 75 gallons. This is a small biocube 14 (actually like 11g). Their website states 5ml treats 10 gallons. I already answered the second question. Tank was wet and done in 6 days going through cycle twice.

 

http://www.instantocean.com/Products/aquarium-saltwater-care/salt-water-set-up/bio-spira-saltwater-aquarium-bacteria.aspx

[Jayva]

The 250ml bottle says to dump the whole bottle up to 75 gallons. This is a small biocube 14 (actually like 11g). Their website states 5ml treats 10 gallons. I already answered the second question. Tank was wet and done in 6 days going through cycle twice.

 

http://www.instantocean.com/Products/aquarium-saltwater-care/salt-water-set-up/bio-spira-saltwater-aquarium-bacteria.aspx

Oh ok. I dumped the 100ML in the 6 gal lol.

[Tamberav]

Haven't used biospira but if you dumped a whole bottle of microbacter in there, you would prob get a bacterial bloom.