ashtricks
11-06-2012, 08:10 PM
I am doing a fish less cycle and just to speed things up decided to get a nitrifying bacteria supplement. I have used the API one before. Guess what I found in Petco.... ATM Colony! The "Tanked" guys seem to have struck a deal with Petco to carry their products. They had a lot of bottles neatly stacked near tetra and API bottles. And very competitively priced too (a buck lesser than the API bacteria supplement). So I decided to get a bottle of ATM colony. The bottle says it has all natural, live nitrobacter and nitrosomonas in special freshwater preservative solution.
I dumpled a 4oz (recommended for 25 gal) bottle in my 20 long after prime, added a couple of fish food flakes, put my two sponge filters in, the ceramic rings for canister, and the heater.... Now the wait begins. I will try to keep a tab on the water parameters and see how things go..... As i dumped the whole bottle in, I saw a lot of white sediment drop. Frankly, it looked like old fish food.... LOL... Probably to keep the bacteria alive.
Does any one have experience with ATM products? I am a big fan of their show though!
I dumpled a 4oz (recommended for 25 gal) bottle in my 20 long after prime, added a couple of fish food flakes, put my two sponge filters in, the ceramic rings for canister, and the heater.... Now the wait begins. I will try to keep a tab on the water parameters and see how things go..... As i dumped the whole bottle in, I saw a lot of white sediment drop. Frankly, it looked like old fish food.... LOL... Probably to keep the bacteria alive.
Does any one have experience with ATM products? I am a big fan of their show though!