Tetra Safestart

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And here's a quote from a more recent advertisement article Tetra wrote for PFK:

"SafeStart contains the living Nitrospira, Nitrosospira and Nitrosomonas bacteria that can safely reduce toxic ammonia and nitrite in aquariums".

And here's a link to the article <a href="http/www.practicalfishkeeping.co.uk/pfk/...?article_id=612" target="_blank">http/www.practicalfishkeeping.co.uk/pfk/...?article_id=612</a>.

Totally convinced Safestart should be refrigerated and otherwise becomes useless much faster than advertised by Tetra.

Yes, this was the only aspect of Winterlilly's exerience that caught my interest anyway. Just the idea that perhaps for people near the one or two LFSs that had a "full-refridgerated-distribution" we might have seen a return of the Biospira/Bactinettes experience. That's all it ever was before, some years ago. For 99% of the people, the Biospira/Bactinettes were just warm dead bottles on the shelf (or cold dead packets in the refridge, whatever) and didn't work. For one or two stores there were these special situations where the stuff received correct continuous refridgeration and could be bought from the coolers of the couple of stores involved and would then work sometimes. But even back then it was only a tiny fraction of people that reported success, which was why the regular ammonia method from 1980 has persisted. There have been periods in this forum when one could watch lots and lots of beginners go through several initial weeks of trying a bottled product, only to then finally start a normal ammonia fishless, having lost the first few weeks of effort.

Interesting test though and if you get hold of some refridgerated, that will be interesting too!

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[three-fingers]

Meant to test yesterday, but was busy.

Tested tonight and about 48hours after adding the mature media (and washing the sponge thoroughly under tap water to try ad remove any fledgeling bacterial colonies that may have started to grow of their own accord) and ammonia is down from ~4.8ppm to ~1ppm and nitrite is still 0ppm. Presuming nitrates will be high, but cant be bothered testing since in involves adding two bottles of chemicals, shaking lots, adding powdered chemicals and waiting.

So again, nothing ground breaking, just shows that you should never underestimate the power of mature media, since all that is just from one tiny piece of Biomax.