precycling water

So has anyone had the idea of precycling water and selling tank water to public or is this totlay off the wall. I figure If you had large enough tanks you could pre cycle water then sell it.

 

The water has nothing to do with the cycle, relatively. The cycle is the process by which bacteria grow in the tank. Either in the sand and/or on the rock. If you were to try to sell precycled water from your tank, you would just be selling aged salt water, probably with some depleted elements.

 

Some stores sell used tank water. Unfortunately, that means that your waterchange water and/or top-off water is going to have Nitrates from the start.

 

I agree with what GuitarMan89 and inwall75 said.

Sooo Petco sells boxed ready to go water, which is just kind of strange I think. I listened to an employee tell a customer once that he set up his nano cube with live sand, live water (or whatever it's called) and had fish in the same day and everything lived. I'm not so sure about that...

 

see I don't see how this wouldn't work. You would also have to use precycled live sand and rock but it would just be like moving a tank. I think the water may hold more then you think. This would be totaly diffrent then what petco does. It would be taken from a living system and thus skipping the cycling process.

 

Hey, if you can figure out a way to ship 50 gal of "live" water to Jersey when it is 25 degrees outside that doesn't cost more than my house, I'd be all for it!

I think most of the problems with this would be caused from 2 things:

1. Prolonged lack of nutrients as the bugs eat up everything in the H2O (prolonged storage, shipping, etc...) and subsequently die off, causing params to go wacky

2. Totally unregulated temperature (could be freezing, could be frying) that would not be a "pleasant" environment for the bugs.

Besides, I'm fairly certain most of the bacterial load in a tank resided in rock and sand, and is not found fee-floating in the H2O...

 

wouldnt it be easier to pull the stuff out of the water and sell the stuff in concentrate form?

 

well in my theroy it would have to be a local thing. Maybe I would set up tanks for doctors and such. This way they pay me tons of money and they have what they want a buitiful tank.