Cycle tank with raw shrimp! Yes or no?

[buckshott]

I've read alot about cycling a tank w/ shrimp. I have a 39 gal. tank with aragonite sand and about 80 lbs. of Fiji LR. Can I use my baby shrimp that I have in a can from the local grocery store to cycle my tank faster and better? It's the kind that you would use for crackers with cocktail sauce on cream cheese. Thank you for reading this.:notsure:

 

[tizzo]

Yes.... about cycling with one.
On crackers with cocktail sauce and cream cheese...I'm gonna hafta try that!!
But be aware that since you have 80lbs of LR, your cycle will be very short, if at all.

 

[buckshott]

There the little baby shrimp. Tiny as all getup.
Yeah you take a brick of cream cheese on a plate, next you put cocktail sauce on that, then you add the little baby shrimp, and finally get Wheat thins or regular crackers!:cheer: Really good.

 

[birdy]

are those shrimp cooked? it is best to use uncooked shrimp to cycle, I guess the cooked kind would work, but the uncooked start decomposing very quickly.