Cycling a tank with raw tuna?

[devaji108]

The story:
150 gal reef build 5x2x2 finished filled w/ ro/di water 100-150lbs of LR 5gal bucket of fine crushed coral looks a lot like the reef aggregate that out there might be all came from a running system, was unable to take any of the water….
Was going to use skimmer poo to push the cycle but was advised not to so
I ended up with a pice of raw tuna from the health food store cut a pice off about 2x2
put it in a small plastic bowl with lots of holes for flow and easy to take out of I need put it in the tank
the question;
will this be enough to get the cycle going? Will tuna work? Or should I go find shrimp?
Never cycled a tank this way before…so I wanted to try it to have frist hand experance using fresh food…
Thoughts and feedback are welcome

 

[spanko]

Just get an uncooked cocktail shrimp. No use wasting good tuna!!!! Besides I am not sure if tuna is an oily fish but if it is best to leave it out me thinks.

 

[oceansidefish]

Tuna is oily and I would not use....waste of seared AHI....Use an uncooked shrimp.

 

[oceansidefish]

Oh and I would get rid of the crushed coral and use an aragonite finer sand with a cup or two of some sand from an established tank

 

[d-dzel]

Definitely get rid of the crushed coral. The tank I bought came with about 20lbs of crushed and I've been picking it out little by little, I just don't like the look of it and it makes it a little hard for my sand sifters to do their job

 

[devaji108]

Originally Posted by Oceansidefish
http:///forum/post/3120277
Oh and I would get rid of the crushed coral and use an aragonite finer sand with a cup or two of some sand from an established tank
yeah I debated on the CC for some time this Is not my 1st tank however I went with it, so it's in... its the super fine and looks alot like the bags of reef substraght with I think it might be...
hummm I did not think about the oils in the tuna. good point omga 3s right
I will take it out and get about 4 cocktai lshrimp...thinks that will do it?
do you peal them?

 

[oceansidefish]

I would peel them....but thats me.

 

[mech-a-nic]

I cycled all my tanks so far with 1 to 2 frozen shrimp that I feed the Anemone never been a problem. 5 tanks so far.