DrTims Aquatics Ammonium Chloride Solution: A Fishless Cycling Cleaner for Fish Tanks

Amazon CustomerAmazon Customer: This product plus Frits zyme 9 had my tank cycled pretty fast.

Canada on Nov 29, 2023

Curlyq13: Worked perfectly for fishless cycling my 5.5 gal tank. I did end up using a separate ammonia calculator after the initial setup which called for much less addition as it was based on my water's ammonia results. However I was able to fully cycle my tank in a little over 2 weeks which was much faster than I anticipated.

United States on Nov 22, 2023

megan: Received quickly and works as needed for cycling my axolotl tank.

Canada on Nov 21, 2023

LindseyLindsey: Along with some beneficial bacteria, dosing to 2 ppm for several days, I got my tank cycled in only 8 days.
This is a 40 gallon tank, I've never had a tank this size.
I'm pretty proud of it but it definitely was the result of this product.

United States on Nov 20, 2023

Amazon Customer: Fantastic product with easy-to-use instructions. I cannot recommend this enough! It helped my cycle a ton and I should've gone with this product instead of littering my entire fish tank with fish food and hoping it would do something.

Canada on Nov 15, 2023

Lee: New to aquatics- wanted to set up new tank asap to transfer black moors to a larger tank. This seemed to quicken this process

United Kingdom on Nov 08, 2023

Jessica: This product works as intended. I followed the instructions on the website and my salt tank was at 2ppm. I never even needed to add more as it stayed at 2 until the bacteria got to work. I was able to complete a fish less cycle in my salt 2 in about 2 weeks. I now have 2 Darwin clowns in and they are doing great.

United States on Nov 02, 2023

Eli: Right now i’m currently in the nitrite reading stage of the cycle. Took 2 weeks for that to happen. It also works way faster with a higher pH. My first attempt i had really soft and acidic water and there was no change for the whole month i was testing. After a water leak scare (false alarm) i refilled the tank and basically started over but added crushed coral. and like i said, it took about 2 weeks for nitrite to start showing which didn’t happen at all in the first try.

This stuff works. Definitely faster than using fish food as an ammonia source.

United States on Oct 30, 2023

TeeJay7: I had a heck of a time cycling a new tank without fish. I tried the fish food method first, and got no where with it, just got cloudy water and bio slim overgrowth. Ammonia never showed up much in the water nor nitrites. I got this DrTim's , added it and well Ammonia showed up for sure when tested for. The cycling process then started and pretty much finished in about 3 weeks or a bit more - no ammonia, no nitrites and an acceptable level of nitrates. If I start another Tank I will use this again.

In the old days, I am dating myself here, we did none of this. We set the tank up, gravel, decorations, filled it with water, added a filter (charcoal and fiber) external or internal, added a heater and let the water sit 3 days or so for the chlorine to dissipate or added so many drops of dechlorinator. Then go a few fish and eventually some live plants. The only thing I ever tested for was PH and used up and down drops to adjust it.
I think everything today is made over complicated. I still see some folks on youtube recommending the old method, it worked for me, never had any issues.

United States on Oct 07, 2023

SPLODGE: I had been feeding my new aquarium, fish food and bacteria but nothing had really moved on after several weeks.
So I tried this and the cycling process, really started.
Great service and product.

United Kingdom on Sep 27, 2023