Professional nutrients for fishless cycling and establishing
strong nitrifying bacteria beds in freshwater and marine aquariums. Overview: NOTE:
This product is designed for fishes cycling. Do not ever put into an
aquarium containing live fish, plants, or invertebrates. Add animals and
plants after cycling is complete. This product alone will not cycle an
aquarium, it simply provides the nutrients. You must use a good quality
bacterial culture to establish the bacteria bed in the aquarium. We
highly recommend Brightwell MicrōBacter Start XLM or MicrōBacter Start
XLF as appropriate for your aquarium. This product may also be used with
MicrōBacterCLEAN to cycle a marine aquarium, but the cycle may not be
as fast as using the MicrōBacter Start. Do not overdose.
You
must use test kits to measure pH, ammonia, nitrite and nitrate to
complete cycling on an aquarium. If you attempt to cycle the tank
without proper testing, you are asking for disaster and will likely kill
your fish. Brightwell is not responsible for indescriminate use of this
product and they recommend that you read up on aquarium cycling so that
you know what it is all about.
This
product requires simultaneous use with a live bacterial culture.
Bacteria products for aquarium use vary widely in characteristics,
strength and overall design. The results you get will be quite different
if you use an inferior bacteria culture or one that is out of date or
has been stored incorrectly and at harmful temperatures. Nitrifying
bacteria is damaged by heat and outright killed by freezing, so care
must be taken to preserve its efficacy. If the bacterial product you use
is dead, then this whole process will not work! Brightwell highly
recommends that you use either MicrōBacter Start XLM, or MicrōBacter
Start XLF depending on whether you are starting a marine aquarium or a
freshwater aquarium. For freshwater, a more economical choice can be
made to use either FlorinBacter One, FlorinBacter or FlorinBacter7.
Instructions & Guidelines:Instructions to quickly cycle new aquarium without fish.
On Day 1:Note:
Do not use carbon, GFO or other phosphate removers until cycling is
complete and 30 more days has passed. If you do, you will slow the
cycle.
- a) Turn off skimmer, UV and remove fine filtration such as socks,
make sure aquarium has sufficient filtration surface area, such as
provided by Brightwell Xport world class bacterial filtration medium or
Micrōbacter Lattice.
- b) You must use a good dechlorinator first, such as Brightwell Erāse to remove chloramine and chlorine.
- c) Prepare water and adjust pH, alkalinity, and temperature
- d) Add full dose of QuikCycl at 4 drops per gallon or 1 ml per 5 gallons of tank capacity
- e) Measure Ammonia which should be between 1 and 2 ppm total
ammonia, which is ammonia plus ammonium (NH3 and NH4+). Do not add more
to get the proper reading either today or throughout the days that
follow. This is because the bacteria will quickly begin to use up the
ammonia, and even though added, it will may not show up on your tests.
- f) Add MicrōBacter Start XLM, or MicrōBacter Start XLF as appropriate for your aquarium, as directed.
On Day 2: Measure pH, Ammonia and Nitrite and record values.
On Day 3: Measure pH, Ammonia and Nitrite and record values.
On Day 4: Measure pH, Ammonia and Nitrite. If either Ammonia or Nitrite are over .25 ppm, then you can add more bacteria, if desired.
On Day 5: Measure pH, Ammonia and Nitrite and record values
On Day 6: Measure pH, Ammonia and Nitrite. If either Ammonia or Nitrite are over .25 ppm, then you can add more bacteria, if desired.
On Day 7:
Measure pH, Ammonia and Nitrite. If using MicrōBacter Start XLM,
MicrōBacter Start XLF and your Ammonia and Nitrite show zero, then
measure Nitrate. If Nitrate is showing .25 ppm or higher, then your
aquarium is cycled. If using any other bacteria, then go to Day 8.
On Day 8: Measure pH, Ammonia and Nitrite and record values.
On Day 9 and subsequent days:
Measure pH, Ammonia and Nitrite. If Ammonia + Nitrite value is zero,
then measure nitrate and if there is a reading of Nitrate at .25 ppm or
higher, then the aquarium is cycled.
At
conclusion of cycling, perform a 25% water change and begin adding
hardy animals, slowly. Restart UV, skimmer and filtration. Go Slow.
Size: 60 mL<