Biozyme

[eaglesaquarium]

Now the real test begins, am I right?

 

[Dieses Madchen]

this is correct.

 

[Man of fish]

i wonder if it's going to work. I hope so.

 

[Man of fish]

So how's it going?

 

[Man of fish]

is it working?

 

[Man of fish]

I wanna know. Please pretty please with a cherry on top?

 

[eaglesaquarium]

patience my friend.

 

[Man of fish]

Ok. I guess I'll have to wait. I'm hoping to get my fluval chi for christmas now as I decided not to order it then told all relatives it's what I wanted. So I guess I've got about 4 weeks to spare.

 

[Dieses Madchen]

Bad news. Filter broke. Experiment on hold. May have to start from scratch. But the media is in one of my other filters to keep that bioload strong.

 

[Man of fish]

Nooooo you can't start over!!!! I'll have to wait even longer to see if the experiment works!!!!!

 

[Dieses Madchen]

Patience is a virtue

 

[Man of fish]

Well I have the Patience of about nothing except to watch my fish and wait for free gifts.

 

[AbbeysDad]

I think this is like fools gold. The process of freeze drying kills all bacteria - if it didn't, freeze dried foods would have little/no shelf life. I believe there are products out there that work (e.g. Dr. Tim's), but they are liquids that require refrigeration for any extended shelf life.
I'm also suspicious about the test results that show nitrates on day 3. That is unless the nitrates were there all along. The point is, as it takes time to develop bacteria to process ammonia, it also takes time to create another colony to process nitrates - this does not happen in two days even with a good bio-seed!!!

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[Dieses Madchen]

Freeze drying bacteria preserves bacteria actually. In the microbiology labs I have worked in, every quality control sample we plated was a freeze dried bacteria that was re-activated by water So no, freeze drying DOES NOT kill bateria. Sterilization of said foods prior to freeze drying does.

And the fact I had nitrates within a week shows that this product may have some merit. I have no nitrates in my water. The only bad thing in my water is ammonia which only helped the process.

Jourdan Sainz MT(AMT) BSAST maj. Clinical Laboratory Technology

 

[eaglesaquarium]

Well, keeping the bacteria alive is good for you, but it completely destroys this trial as having any sort of validity in my eyes. You have now moved the filter media to a tank with established media and are running it that way. Whose to say that the bacteria that move back aren't ones that were introduced as it ran in tandem with the other filter? At the same time, if it were a completely cycled filter (or very close) and it was now placed on a tank that already had established media, some of the bacteria in that filter should die back. There is no outcome now that would definitively show anything. Certainly it could be argued, but nothing could be truly surmised from this. I applaud your efforts, but this merely goes down as an inconclusive at this point.