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Ultimate Aquarium Cycle Kit

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Jumpstart your aquarium with the Ultimate Aquarium Cycle Kit!
This all-in-one solution ensures a clean, rapid, and pest-free cycling process. It includes a powerful blend of nitrifying and photoheterotrophic bacteria, a nitrogenous microbial fuel, and an ultra-high surface area bio-medium for optimal bacterial colonization.

Designed for new tanks only—do not use in aquariums with existing fish or coral.

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Ultimate Aquarium Cycle Kit: For a Functional Microbiome

Diverse organisms release ammonia into aquarium water as a metabolic waste product. Not only is ammonia toxic to marinelife but also it can build up rapidly in recirculating systems such as aquaria. Thankfully, the natural world (and most aquaria) contains only trace quantities of this substance due to the activity of nitrifying bacteria. These mainly aerobic, autolithotrophic microorganisms include both ammonia-oxidizing species (which convert ammonia into nitrite) and nitrite-oxidizing bacteria (which convert nitrite into relatively harmless nitrate) while utilizing inorganic sources of carbon (e.g. carbon dioxide). The term “nitrogen cycling” is used in the aquarium hobby to describe various methods used to promote the rapid and permanent establishment of nitrifying microorganisms in a so-called biofilter. Nowadays, the preferred method for cycling a new aquarium is “fishless” cycling, utilizing concentrated bottled inoculants and inorganic nitrogen sources. The Ultimate Aquarium Cycle Kit fully addresses this first important stage of the process.

That being said, nitrifiying bacteria account for only a small fraction of the core reef microbiome. Many of these ‘other’ groups are represented by heterotrophic species. These may assimilate large amounts of nitrate and phosphate (both of which tend to build up in recirculating aquarium systems) through their rapid growth whilst utilizing organic sources of carbon. Purple nonsulfur bacteria are well known to be important heterotrophs on natural coral reefs not only because of their critical role in nitrogen cycling but also because they possess enzymes that break down poorly digestible organic substances such as cellulose (e.g., cell walls of dead algae). In so doing, these bacteria help to control detritus build-up in aquaria. Moreover, in addition to being capable of assimilating and nitrifying nitrogenous compounds, they are also capable of performing denitrification! As such, they compliment the traditional nitrifiers in that they consume organic wastes (which nitrifiers cannot do) as well as convert excess nitrate into nitrogen gas! Even more, these photosynthetic microbes are a natural and rich source of protein, B vitamins and carotenoids for copepods, corals, etc.

How the Ultimate Aquarium Cycle Kit works

This complimentary pairing of microbes works synergistically to efficiently cycle nitrogen as well as carbon, phosphorus and sulfur while curbing the growth of undesirable bacteria and algae. In short, they lay the foundation for a healthy, stable and clean aquarium environment. The Ultimate Aquarium Cycle Kit contains all of the components needed to establish a fully functioning microbiological community in new saltwater aquaria–even including the perfect biomedia! Get your microbiome off to a great start by using only the best live nitrifying and photoheterotrophic bacteria plus the perfect fuel to help the microbes thrive! Using this combo pack, which includes TurboStart 900, PNS ProBio, NitroCycle,  BioBunker Hexagon Cage paired with Refuge Biomedia, you can cycle a completely sterile system, and enhance its capacity to break down organic wastes, in as little as five days.

 

Here’s What’s in the Ultimate Aquarium Cycle Kit:

You have options! The Ultimate Aquarium Cycle Kit is available in several sizes to exactly suit your needs (based upon required dosage of TurboStart). An extraordinary value when purchased together in this package!

 

Size Option Treats In Gallons TurboStart Size NitroCycle Quantity
(238mL)
PNS ProBio
(455mL)
ROCKS + TOWER RINGS + TOWER REDS + TOWER
SMALL 25 1 oz 1 1 1 1 1
MEDIUM 50 2 x 1 oz 1 1 2 2 2
LARGE 100 4 oz 1 1 3 3 3
XL 200 2 x 4 oz 1 1 4 4 4
2XL 400 16 oz 2 1 6 6 6
3XL 800 32 oz 4 2 10 10 10
4XL 1600 2 x 32 oz 7 4 18 18 18
5XL 3200 4 x 32 oz 14 7 30 30 30

 

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Brett Makowski
Ultimate cycle kit

This kit was unbelievably easy to use and provided all the essentials to quickly cycle the aquarium fishless and achieve a sufficient aquarium biome in the process.

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Jake Hartge
No to TurboStart

I’m really upset.

I NEVER livecycle but this pack told me to. Unfortunately, after the clownfish that I added after testing and following every direction precisely. They all died within 5 hours. Never again.

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Christopher Artibee

This kit is amazing!! Followed the dosing for my 50gal and I was fully cycled in 4 days! I highly recommend

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neil de vera

WARNING:
DO NOT USE THIS BUNDLE IF YOU'RE DOING A FISH-IN CYCLE.

NitroCycle contains ammonium chloride which spikes the amonia levels not safe for fish-in cycles. Fritz turbo start is great for that however.

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ibrianw0ng

Very happy with this kit! Everything came in perfect and fresh and cycled my tank in about a week! Highly recommend

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