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What do you guys think about the damsel idea when cycling a tank
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Agree, and it's a bit archaic. There are much better options today.bad idea. It's cruel to the fish and cycling can be done with something that is already dead (like a table shrimp)
Does a shrimp not have to lose its life in order to use the dead shrimp method?Cycling with livestock is cruel. You can buy pure ammonia at the hardware store to start your cycle or use dead shrimp. Why make a damsel/chromis/whatever suffer?
Damsels are aggressive enough eaters that a bottle trap always works on them.I had bad experience in that the damsel bullied two new clowns to death. Problem is removing the damsel if you have live rock set up. No way you'll catch him without totally removing your rocks.
Does a shrimp not have to lose its life in order to use the dead shrimp method?
Does a shrimp not have to lose its life in order to use the dead shrimp method?
True, but that shrimp was dead anyway. If you don't buy it for the tank, someone will buy it for the grill. Either way, it's dead. A living fish would most likely be bought for an already cycled tank. A tank that would be giving the live fish a shot at a happy life. You can't give a dead shrimp a shot at a happy life lol.