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Thought I would give an update for any anoxic start ups. The pond is 20000L and has 20 anoxic baskets, I am running the whole system for fishless cycling. I added 200ml of 33% Ammonia on 30th May, this took Ammonia to 0.3. Nitrate was testing at 0-10. All tests with palintest tablets. Water temp 20C...

Thanks again. You have confirmed my suspicions and the evidence so far seems to back that up- ammonia slowly reducing but little or no change in Nitrite/Nitrate. Plus overall taking longer than you would expect to mature fully given water temps well over 20C. Patience it is then

Yes, I have read it many times and would not have gone down this road without it! What is puzzling me and I am trying(badly) to ask is will the filter go straight into that cycle or , like a conventional filter, will it develop in stages with spikes in nitrite/nitrate? Also will it take longer to de...

In all the years I've been promoting anoxic filtration, I can't remember anyone ever asking that question before but, yes, you can fishless cycle an anoxic pond. I've written up how to fishless cycle conventional media for my website on the link below but, with a bit of thought, you can adapt that ...

Any thoughts on starting anoxic filters with fishless cycling? Will it work in a similar manner to conventional filters?