pat8you
Aquarium Advice Addict
So i started working at a LFS by my house. Only like the third day i have worked there and i'm trying to learn all about freshwater since i have always been salt. My manager was talking to me about the fish that he normally recommends for cycling tanks. At this point in the conversation i asked him why he didn't use a fishless cycle with raw unseasoned shrimp and i thought he was going to *deficate* a brick. He went off about how dangerous that is because there were bacteria and i think he said parasite and protazoan eggs that could be on the shrimp that once they get in your tank would just do all of these terrible things. I've always cycled my tanks with shrimp and i know many of you here have as well. So the question is, have any of you had problems with this method and do any of you know if any of what he said it true?
I personally don't belive that for a second. If there were that many bad things in the shrimp that are ment for human consumption it seems that someone would be getting sick or bad things would be happening. I also didn't see how even if that was true that it would be any worse then all the possible things that could travel into a tank on the fish that he was going to use to cycle with. These are just my thoughts though i don't have anything to back them up with.
Any proof of either side of the issue?
I personally don't belive that for a second. If there were that many bad things in the shrimp that are ment for human consumption it seems that someone would be getting sick or bad things would be happening. I also didn't see how even if that was true that it would be any worse then all the possible things that could travel into a tank on the fish that he was going to use to cycle with. These are just my thoughts though i don't have anything to back them up with.
Any proof of either side of the issue?