HI, need advice

[christyf5]

Originally Posted by Johnny Reefer

Having said all this, what's the point in paying the extra money for live sand in the first place, when the organisms introduced with LR will make inert sand live within two weeks or so?

Cheers,

Basically I think that is more part of the argument than the whole "it isn't really live" theory. Why buy it when you don't really need to?! But some people don't want to have to wait, by providing the bacteria that are needed to break down the ammonia, nitrite and nitrate you don't have to wait for bacterial populations to reproduce to a stage where they can handle (break down) high levels of "nutrients". You already have the population there and they break them down right away, thus increasing the speed of the cycle.

FWIW, I attempted to look up the bacteria used in both the Caribsea live sand, Hagen Cycle and Seachem Stablilty. All three just go on about having several types of heterotrophic and autotrophic bacteria which doesn't really tell us much.

Christy