Bio-Spira cycling medicine ?

[freshcichlid]

I saw this on another site and i went to this page and was wondering if anyone had experience with this and if you think it will work ?

http/www.marineland.com/products/mllabs/ML_biospira.asp

 

[Sky042]

Actually the stuff does work.
It's hard to find and not very cheap since it has to be shipped and stored refridgerated and expries in IIRC 6 months.

But if you can get your hands on it it's actually very effective.

 

[trisha1972]

My lfs sells this. I've been wondering about it too. I have a new 55 gallong set up (EVERYTHING including hood enclosure and stand) on layaway. Was wondering if this would be the way to cycle the new tank quicker.

 

[krash]

I have cycled 6 tanks using Bio-Spira, ranging from a 3 gallon to a 20 gallon. Each has cycled very quickly (though not instantly), and in each case the levels of ammonia and nitrite never got high enough to do any damage to my fish. I posted a summary of these cycles here: http/www.fishforums.net/index.php?showto...655&hl=biospira

Let me know if you have any questions!

Stacey

 

[fishwatcher]

I've had the exact same experience as krash. I will never cycle another tank without it again. As for cost, it runs $10 around here for a pouch that cycles up to 30-gallons. Only the actual fish store around here has it... none of the chain stores do. I have 10-gal tanks, and 1 was going through a mini-cycle at the same time I set another up, so I put about 3/4 in the new tank, and 1/4 in the old tank. It did a great job!

 

[Sky042]

I would think it'd also be a good culture for fishless cycling.

i.e. lets say you had a 100G tank and bought enough for a 30G it'd probably make your fishless cycle progress nicely.