DannyMac

Just added TSS to my 36 gallon tank. I had added fish before the tank was totally cycled apparently. I had been doing daily water changes to offset the high ammonia. I will keep everyone posted on the cycle after a week or so. Hopefully it does what it says because I'm sick of the water changes!!:

Annadvn

I used this i got my ammonia up to 4ppm of ammonia before i added the TTS and within 24 hours the ammonia was down to less than 1ppm and Nitrites were on the rise from zero.

Well within a week my cycle was complete and i didn't have a mini cycle when i added 15 fish all at once!

I love the product and will definitely use it again when needed!

Anna

Steve420

It worked great for me. I cycled my 55g with it and had no issues whatsoever

Jupiter

Best $22 I spent! My 55 gallon tank was taking a really long time to cycle due to filter changes and a stalled cycle. (I had 0 amonia, off the charts Nitrites, and 10 Nitrates for the last 3 weeks. Prior to that I had off the charts amonia for months.) I stumbled across a new fish store that had TSS in stock so I thought it couldn't hurt to try. It was reccomended by the salesman to pour it directly on the sponge in the filters. I don't know it that made a difference but I did that and on the fifth day I had finally cycled!

DannyMac

Almost been a week since I added the TSS to my tank and my readings are 2 PPM ammonia, .25 ppm nitrites, 0 ppm nitrates. Something is working since I had no nitrites for weeks before adding TSS.

My pH is at 6.0 however, so I wonder if this is slowing the cycle at all?? I have no idea why my pH is so low as the water from my tap is 7.4 pH, no driftwood in the tank either. Thinking about adding some shells to raise the pH, any thoughs on if the pH will affect the cycle?

I will post updates on the progress with TSS, but the cycle is not going to be complete in a week

Shawnie

the lower ph (under 7) is producing ammonium....which will starve the bacteria...it just takes longer when its in the ammonium phase...I think at this point, you would have to add crused coral and more TSS because if probably died off from the lower ph

ccb04

TSS has twice worked as advertised for me.

Craig-D

I just voted. I started my 12 gallon Thursday, June 4th. Today is Monday, June 8th and the tank is cycled. 0 ammonia, 0 nitrites, 5.0 nitrates. I will continue to monitor daily for awhile though to be sure.

I started by adding half a 100ml bottle with 1 betta and 1 platy on Thursday and added 5 panda cories 3 days later. A second platy will go in after she comes out of quarantine. In addition to the SafeStart I seeded with media and gravel from my cycled 2.5 gallon quarantine tank. For those of you debating how to use this stuff, I spoke to Tetra at length. They do not recommend fishless cycling with pure ammonia when using their product. They also do not recommend using Prime, Amquel+ or any other detoxifying agent with it. They said just use an chlorine removing conditioner, add the SafeStart and your full stock of fish and wait. You shouldn't see any ammonia or nitrates throughout the whole process. If you do, they said just do a partial water change, but don't add any products. Partial water changes will extend the time it takes to cycle though because you are removing free-floating bacteria when you do it.

haedra

That depends on who you get when you call them.

I called Tetra 3 separate times throughout the process when I used Safe Start. In none of those phone calls was I told not to use Amquel+.

Jark

At the end of the week I had zero ammonia and nitrites. Mid week I did get a sharp nitrite spike that I caught and diluted but I did loose a gourami. I lost another gourami because of the 5" pleco not liking him in his cave. I would recommend safe start based on my 55g cycle.

I added a few cap fulls of TSS to my 10g with 3 cory and a betta. It has had an ammonia spike of about .25 but does have nitrates today. Hopefully the ammonia will go down. I took the betta out due to a incident involving the filter intake, and a betta tail. I am treating him in his old bowl until ammonia drops and his fin is a little better.

kloseo

i used nutrafin cycle with biological supplement and it worked well, i did a partial water change every 3 days for about a month and then went up to every week and didnt lose a single fish, I dont think I would have neede d such constant water changes but i did stock my tank rather quickly, I did this on 2 differnt tanks
it sells at petsmart

Tony G.

it cycled my ten gal in 5 days and my 2.5 in 3

Christian Patti

It ended up working but took longer than a week and the first bottle I bought didn't work at all. Ended up being a big waste of money and I will never use it again.

eiginh

If I used Superbac, does that count? They're similar products.

Lucy

The poll is about Tetra SafeStart, not SuperBac.
It doesn't count, sorry

thorpbrian

I've used TSS to cycle all three of my tanks in a week.