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[malawiman85]

Anyone used it first hand or have any technical knowledge of the product?

[Stormfyre]

Yes I use Seed.

 

It works a treat. Helps set up bio-load in a couple days. I even use it on cycled filters etc when setting up.

 

I even use a tiny bit each water change saltwater tanks and freshwater tanks.

 

Turn off UV if you have it first.

 

It has a few different kinds of nitrifying and de-nitrifying bacteria and also other bacteria strains that help which can adapt to aerobic or anaerobic conditions.

[Buccal]

The way I always thought of this stuff, in a newly set up aquarium, is that using a seed additive is as good as using some matured water from another established aquarium, and using waiste solids from matured filter into new.
Both being for the same purpose "trigger a faster completion of the start up cycle".

Personally I've always found putting in heaps of omnivore type food pellets deliberately making water go milky with a bad smell does the fastest job, fastest to the complete cycle finish that is,,,, other additives or processes may give you a quicker start but are slower for a total over all finish.
Beneficial bacteria are present anywhere and everywhere and they multiply rapidly once they hit their needed environment "fish tank".
They multiply fast, don't really need to buy them,, what you need is beneficial bacteria's food source, ammonia, which decaying fish food puts out massively,,,,, the bueuty of the food method is that the water goes horribly yuk, milky stinky and whatever else, but after a week to two weeks the water will go crystal clear and smell will disappear, you don't even need a test kit if you do this correctly.

In saying all that, if I didn't have established tanks to extract matured water and filter muck to start my new tank, yes I'd use seachem seed.

[malawiman85]

I wanna use it on two new marine tanks that my wife wants to set up.

Cheers for the replies gents.