Cycle A New Tank In 3 Minutes?

[This Old Spouse]

Just found this on YouTube ...
 
http/www.youtube.com/watch?v=9E21dIdJLbs

 

[Brilly91]

Mind=Blown

 

[Mikey1]

this dude has no clue what he is talking about

 
bacteria are not going to come out of a sponge when you squeeze it, certainly not enough to cycle another entire aquarium.....if that was the case we would all lose our cycles evertime we cleaned our filters, Lol
 
the only way he could possibly do what he wants is to move the entire sponge filter to the new aquarium,

 

[mike455555]

you say that, but it will have some benefit, all the partials which make the water cloudy will all have bacteria on them, they then will go get filtered out by the filter, so it will have some benefit, but i doubt that it would cycle a tank straight away 

 

[This Old Spouse]

I'm not agreeing or disagreeing with his methods, but wanted to get some discussion on this. People have often wondered if this would work. I can see it being better than the "bottled bacteria" that you can buy, because at least you know this hasn't been sitting on a shelf for months. What about pouring it directly into the filter?

 

[Livewire88]

Wonder why the comments have been disabled on his video!! 

 

[This Old Spouse]

I'm sure it started a poop storm!

 

[Livewire88]

I'm sure it started a poop storm!

 
Like it did when he poured the filthy water into his tank! lol
 
I am sure he didn't cause any harm but to claim his method would cycle a tank in 3 minutes is very far fetched. 

 

[snazy]

Well, considering that I have managed to squeeze the hell out of my filter media sometimes, enough to cause an ammonia spike then there's still some benefit in using the gunk in another tank. Now the question remains whether you can transfer enough to cycle a tank safely.

 

[Gvilleguy]

I am disagreeing with this method. There is no evidence that enough bacteria are being dislodged to immediately cycle a new tank. I think not. No wonder comments are disabled.

 

[TwoTankAmin]

Squeezing out a sponge will help with cycling. I have done it on a few occasions where I could not spare media/gravel itself. However, it is much slower than using seasoned media or bottle bacteria (which I have also used successfully a few times).
 
As noted the gunk will mostly get sucked into the filter, but some will also fall to the substrate.decor. Any jump start is always better than none at all. How much better will very with each situation.

 

[Livewire88]

Well, considering that I have managed to squeeze the hell out of my filter media sometimes, enough to cause an ammonia spike then there's still some benefit in using the gunk in another tank. Now the question remains whether you can transfer enough to cycle a tank safely.

 
I agree with you, there is bound to be some bacteria that was squeezed out but never enough to cycle a tank in 3 minutes.   

 

[Gvilleguy]

Yes - I am mainly disagreeing with the inferred time frame of the video.