I really hate "ghost feeding" horrible idea in my opinion.. Go buy a bottle of Bio Spira which contains good living bacterica, shut off your skimmer dump all of it on add some fish tomorrow. This product isn't a chemical it's living bacteria... Good living bacteria...
Sorry...I just have to jump in here! Some fish means more then one to top it all off. Even after a tank is cycled ONLY ONE fish at a time, and preferably after a quarantine period of 4 weeks.
No way will adding living bacteria cycle your tank enough so that you can add SOME fish the very next day. Even the bottle says to add it a little at a time. That stuff is only good if you are just adding a new fish (ONE FISH) to an already established system, to try and add a little stability. Every time you add a new critter it will take an ESTABLISHED system a week at the very least to rebalance.
Good bacteria has to have time to attach to solid services and build, there is very little in the water itself. The good bacteria only builds from the ammonia in the tank, and it only builds enough to handle the bio-load that is present, no more, no less, a perfect balance. Every time you add a new critter, it adds ammonia from it's waste, and the balance is changed, the good bacteria uses that to build in stages ...Ammonia to Nitrite to nitrates... This is WHY Bang told you it's POINTLESS to add bottled bacteria when you are starting a fist cycle.
Live rock SOMETIMES will have enough good bacteria to allow no ammonia spikes
when ammonia is first introduced, but since you don't know if it is enough, you have to add ammonia and then do the water tests. That is the only way to know what is going on with your water, and if it is ready for fish.
