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Some of you may have noticed that of late I have been fairly interested in nutrients and nutrition and how all this affect our systems, in this thread I will be attempting to cycle a system in 72 hours or less and demonstrate how the understanding of nutrients can avoid the ugly stage all together with the lights to make things more interesting
Folks saying that the ugly stage is “normal” is just something that has been normalised for far too long, we shouldn’t have to deal with all this nuisances in the beginning of such a great hobby.
Many are left dealing with nuisance algae growing out of control, diatom blooms that last for months, dinoflagellates outbreaks that discourage folks in carry on with the hobby and Cyanobacteria that smoother all tank surfaces.
I firmly believe that together we can change the trend and aid folks enjoying their systems without having to spend months looking at something that could of been avoided from day one.
my goal with this will be to demonstrate that nutrient management and understanding can go a long way avoid this all together, we should have to rely only on CUC to minimise the so dreaded and normalised ugly stage.
this experiment is set to start just after Xmas due to space for a new tank, if anyone would be interested in starting a small system to demonstrate they’re way to avoid the ugly stage are also welcome to post they’re progress
Folks saying that the ugly stage is “normal” is just something that has been normalised for far too long, we shouldn’t have to deal with all this nuisances in the beginning of such a great hobby.
Many are left dealing with nuisance algae growing out of control, diatom blooms that last for months, dinoflagellates outbreaks that discourage folks in carry on with the hobby and Cyanobacteria that smoother all tank surfaces.
I firmly believe that together we can change the trend and aid folks enjoying their systems without having to spend months looking at something that could of been avoided from day one.
my goal with this will be to demonstrate that nutrient management and understanding can go a long way avoid this all together, we should have to rely only on CUC to minimise the so dreaded and normalised ugly stage.
this experiment is set to start just after Xmas due to space for a new tank, if anyone would be interested in starting a small system to demonstrate they’re way to avoid the ugly stage are also welcome to post they’re progress