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Fritz Zyme 7 Live Bacteria vs Seachem Stability


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I've used both (two separate tanks), and saw no appreciable difference.  That said, the Fritz 7 smells bad.  Recently, I had to move all of my fish into a new tank due to a leak, and bought some Dr. Tims, even though I had a filter, substrate etc. from a cycled tank.  I don't know if it made any difference at all, but it made me feel better, and the new tank cycled almost immediately.     

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I haven't used the Fritz yet but I use Stability currently along with pre-established filter media and I usually get the tanks up and running almost instantly. (I still give a week before livestock go in just to make sure), but once my current bottle of Stability is gone I'm going to try the Fritz

I have a friend who uses the Fritz exclusively and can go from a fresh setup with no cycled media to ready to go in 7 days flat. (with light bio load, she cycles 5 - 10 gallons almost exclusively for a single betta, or maybe a betta and a snail). 

She's even posted (in another group/forum) progress pictures before and it's pretty impressive. 

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bottle bacterial won't cycle a tank unless the bacterial  has an ammonia source to feed off most of the bacterial will die very quickly I have been keeping fish for over 20 years in that time have tried a couple of different brands of bottle bacterial and found no difference in how long it took to cycle a tank just a waste of money I like to just add small amount of food daily for a couple of weeks then gradually add a small group fish   every couple of weeks to allow the benefial bacterial time  to catch up 

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On 4/12/2022 at 12:37 PM, Wrencher_Scott said:

Use old media or a sponge to get a faster start. 

I can't, I literally tossed it all since it was "infested" with bladder snails and eggs.

On 4/12/2022 at 12:49 PM, Colu said:

bottle bacterial won't cycle a tank unless the bacterial  has an ammonia source to feed off most of the bacterial will die very quickly I have been keeping fish for over 20 years in that time have tried a couple of different brands of bottle bacterial and found no difference in how long it took to cycle a tank just a waste of money I like to just add small amount of food daily for a couple of weeks then gradually add a small group fish   every couple of weeks to allow the benefial bacterial time  to catch up 

My Tank has been fully stocked for a year, the issue was that I tossed all my canister filter media and I assumed that the sponge filter in my tank would have enough to support the tank and was only expecting small dips here and there.  I have been dealing with Ammonia spikes now I'm dealing with Nitrite spikes.  Rookie mistake done out of frustration.

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They both do the same thing. Dosing amounts are just speaking to the amount of "stuff" per oz of liquid. There really isn't going to be a major difference, I just get whatever is available.

I've used tetra, aqueon, some other brand they had at petco, stability, whatever is cheapest. (No fritz stuff available locally here)

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On 4/12/2022 at 4:55 PM, nabokovfan87 said:

They both do the same thing. Dosing amounts are just speaking to the amount of "stuff" per oz of liquid. There really isn't going to be a major difference, I just get whatever is available.

I've used tetra, aqueon, some other brand they had at petco, stability, whatever is cheapest. (No fritz stuff available locally here)

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I have used Stability with Prime  in the past, and it works well if you follow the instructions for Cycle with fish in tank directions  … If you need to cycle your tank … I also add Stability every 2-3 weeks after a water change  or when I get new fish  for the tank to help keep it going well … I also use seachem purigen too …

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