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Ammonia in Cycle

I am told there is some ammonia in Cycle, is this true?

I am told there is some ammonia in Cycle, is this true?
It is always possible to find a small residue of ammonia in the Cycle product. Do not forget that bacteria in the reactor chamber(s) during the manufacturing process need some food (ammonia and lots of other salts) to propagate strongly enough to create the large biomass. Cycle must be grown and cultured in this strong solution to bring it to the highly concentrated population levels before its activity is shut down and then bottled. These bacterial strains use the available food almost completely before the dormancy period is induced, but at the end of the process it is always possible to find some residue of ammonia in the liquid.

However the actual, available quantity of ammonia is minor.

Example:

If you have 100 mg/L (100 ppm) in the solution, that seems very high when you test the product directly with a test kit. However, when the product is added to the aquarium, there is an extreme dilution that occurs. The actual quantity of product (5 - 10 mL) per the 10 U.S. gallon treatment dosage makes the amount of actual ammonia added into the aquarium ridiculously low.

10 mL of Cycle with the above concentration of 100 mg/L (100 ppm) of ammonia added to 37.8 Liters actually results in 0.03 mg/L of ammonia in the tank. This minute quantity (0.03 ppm) of ammonia is totally undetectable with an ammonia test kit and is rapidly oxidized in a few minutes by the bacteria. Actually, our manufacturing process results in our Cycle being sold with the amount of ammonia residue normally less than 10 mg/L. At this actual level (not the 10 fold increase in the above example), the standard dose will provide only 0.003 mg/L of ammonia in the tank. This is the pure concept of dilution and is easy to calculate.

You do not use pure Cycle in an aquarium. It must be diluted as a direct result of use, and we have never seen the ammonia rise due to the simple introduction of the product.

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