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No, I did not buy the product from him. He sells cycle though. He just does not believe in instant fish ready, I could tell. I can not wait to see how much all my readings are in the morning. I knew that I only needed one or the other. I found the ammonia that I needed at a Ace Hardware and purchased it, then I thought that was way too long to go without fish, since it has been in my office for a while now, so I ordered the Dr. Tim’s
Since I had both, and his attitude made me edgy, I decided to try it out. The only reason I added the ammonia first was I wanted it to get to the 4 ppm that was suggested to start off a tank, and since I did not do my homework on a test gallon of water first, in order to know how much to add, I just did it in the tank. I found out 6 drops from my dropper is .5 parts per million. So I took it up to 2 parts per million, and tested. Then up to 4 ppm.
If it works out, I will go and get fish tomorrow! It seems that the nitrates would not be so high this way that I would need to do the 90% water change.
My readings before adding the ammonia were a PH of 8 and everything else a 0 - API master test kit… I do not have the hardness test kits, but the water here is pretty hard to say the least. Had I know I needed them when I purchased the “master” test kit I would have ordered them at that time. I will soon, but right now the wife’s patience might be wearing a bit thin on all the recent fish stuff purchased. In her defense it is a fairly long list… )
On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 5:44 PM, Lenny V. aka GoldLenny wrote:
> I hope you didn’t mess up. There was no need to add ammonia first. If > anything, you should have added the Dr. Tim’s first, then started dosing > ammonia.. or just added fish.. since that is the purpose of the product. > > I guess it should still work if the backwards plan of adding the ammonia > first didn’t cause any kind of shock issue to the bacteria in Dr. Tim’s. > > Your test results tomorrow will let you know if it cycled all of the > ammonia. You’ll have to keep dosing ammonia every day until you finally add > your fish. > > If you were going to fishless cycle with ammonia, there was no need to buy > the Dr. Tim’s.. it’s either one or the other. > > If he was laughing at the purpose of Dr. Tim’s One And Only to instantly > fishless cycle a tank, as if he didn’t think it worked.. then why the HELL > is he selling it to his customers… sounds like a crappy person to me. I > wonder how much other stuff he sells people that he doesn’t think works…. > but Dr. Tim’s One And Only does work so at least you didn’t get screwed by > him but I’d be very leery of his product suggestions in the future. > > Lenny Vasbinder > Fish Blog - http://GoldLenny.blogspot.com > (Links to any articles referenced in above reply are listed on the right > side, alphabetically under Labels and also under Archives by Year, Month) > > > > —–Original Message—– > From: AquaticLife@yahoogroups.com [mailto: > AquaticLife@yahoogroups.com ] On > Behalf Of Harl Myers > Sent: Monday, January 05, 2009 4:25 PM > To: aquaticlife@yahoogroups.com > Subject: [AquaticLife] An experiment has started… > > Well, today I added 4 parts per million ammonia to a 12 gal. tank. Then I > added Dr. Tim’s one and only to the tank and filter. > > Tomorrow mourning I plan to test the ammonia, nitrites, and nitrates to see > if I have a fully cycled tank or not. > > Has anyone else done this? I found a pretty good LFS here and I could tell, > he had a hard time from laughing at me when I brought up Dr. Tim’s and what > it is suppose to do. > > Made me nervous, so I decided to test it out first. The 2 oz. bottle is for > 30 gallon, so I used half and reserved half in case this fails, I can add > more as I do the entire fishless cycle… > > >
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