Stress Zyme Help Plz

[mollie_lover]

hi, when i clean my tank and changed the water i add stress coat.. when do i add stress zyme again?

 

[andyw823]

Is stress zyme the bacteria one? If so its every 7 days after setting up the aquarium. But it tells you on the side of the bottle!!!

 

[Bignose]

I'll give you some help. Save your money by never purchasing it again. There is no need for regular bacteria "updates" In a healthy tank, where would the bacteria go? If a bacteria dies, a new bacteria grows to replace it. Unless you let your bacteria die off by depriving them of food (taking the fish out), or letting the filter dry out, or dumping antibacterial medicines in the tank, the bacteria will be fine. If extra bacteria were added, they would just starve anyway. The colony that exists in there as it is, has grown to the size it has corresponding with the number and size of the fish in the tank. Specifically, the colony has grown large enough so that the colony's rate of consumption is exactly the same as the rate of production from the fish. So, any extra bacteria would just starve anyway. So, there is no point in adding bacteria that will do nothing except starve. That doesn't even open up the debate about whether that is the right species of bacteria in the bottle anyway, and how it could remain alive without access to food or oxygen. If that was too subtle for you, the points in the last sentence are also valid questions to raise concerning this product.

So, I just wouldn't ever buy such a pretty much useless product ever again. Don't feel bad, it is in the LFS's and company's best interest to sell you stuff, so they make it sound like these products are really useful and necessary. Consider it a small lesson in not always trusting the LFS.

 

[vinylman]

Indeed. If you bought everything the manufacturers say you need, you'd be skint and you'd spend more time adding stuff than watching your fish. Don't they tell us to replace filter media every month? It's a load of arse. The only thing I put in my tank is fresh water and I've never had any problems. Once your tank is cycled, the bacteria is sorted; nothing short of a catastrophic power failure will change that. Save your money, enjoy your fish.

 

[mollie_lover]

so you are telling me, when i do a water change i just add stress coat (water conditioner), and no need to add stress zyme(live bacteria) again?

 

[Miss Wiggle]

so you are telling me, when i do a water change i just add stress coat (water conditioner), and no need to add stress zyme(live bacteria) again?

absolutely

 

[mollie_lover]

ok thanks, so when wud i neeed to use it again?

 

[Miss Wiggle]

if you ever found the tank was cycling again for some reason it could help. like if you had a disease and had to use a strong anitbacterial medication that wiped out your filter colony, then it could help. if you get sudden ammonia or nitrite readings for no apparent reason it could help. but for day to day fishkeeping it is really not nescessary

 

[mollie_lover]

oh okay then, not even when i clean the tank and do a water change?

 

[Miss Wiggle]

nope

once your tank is cycled and mature you have all the bacteria you need, there's no point whatsoever adding more (which is what stress zyme does) in fact it could cause a negative reaction in that you would have too much bacteria and some would die off, this in itself could cause an ammonia/nitrite spike or increased levels of nitrate.

unless something causes you to have not enough bacteria in the tank (you would know because of ammonia or nitrite readings) then there's no point using it

 

[mollie_lover]

thanks

 

[QuotheRaven]

I made the same mistake buying stress zyme so often and going through it savagely and wasting so much money Lol Some people say stress zyme doesn't even work in the first place Lol

 

[mollie_lover]

lol das what i was told aswell i used it and it stil worked.. i also used bactiness, its live bacteria from the pet shop, its cold and was in a fridge

 

[Bignose]

mollie lover, maybe part of the confusion/disbelief will be alieved once you learn that the overwhelming amount of bacteria (like 99.999%), are sessile, which is the oppoiste of mobile. That is, the bacteria adhere to all the surfaces of the tank, the walls, the gravel, and especially the surfaces of the filter. Even if you take out all the water, the bacteria remain because they are adhered to the tank's surfaces. And, so long as you don't let them dry out, they will remain alive and able t perform their cycling functions. That's why it doesn't matter when you do a water change, the bacteria remain.