Originally Posted by jdragunas
Well, by your reasoning, adding fish food to the tank to cycle is also cruel... as even flakes include some sort of sea life, such as shrimp, squid, and others.
Hmmm... in that case, having LR is cruel as well... At one point in time (whether it be transporting it from the beach to the store, or the store to you), something on it dies... that is the unnecessary death of many colonies of bacteria and microorganisms...
We just shouldn't have fish tanks at all!!!!!
That is my point...there is no way around the "cruelty" aspect. No matter how you do it at some point animal "cruelty" and death was involved. Atleast with the cycling with fish aspect you can see if you actually kill the fish unlike the other options where you know the creature has already been suffocated or ground up or killed. Like I said....the debate about the cruelty involved is actually dumb when you trully think on it.