Originally Posted by Shadylady
Boy am I upset! I tried the vodka trick but it made my wrass sick and my dogfish swim upside down.
On another note I was speaking someone on another forum last week and he suggested putting pickled cabbage in my refugium to increase the good bacteria. Is this another lousy trick?
Shadylady! Are you British? No need to answer. Ok, please do.
I am about can get your irony about pickled cabbage. In case if you meant it and if you have any life stock in it. Do you liquidise this to the very small particles and then squeeze as much as possible fermented acid/juice from it to feed your fish or invertebrates with it?
Problem with it: if you just started to do so and you have recently set up tank, It might trigger another mini cycle, and you will find a few floaters (dead bodies) in the tank very soon. I really hope its not going to be the case. (usually takes 4-5 weeks). However I still think its not fair to have such experiments with living organisms. Shadylady: can you imagine. after you death you soul would be transferred to some Sexline Wrasse (not sure about spelling, but in Latin is: pseudochenlenus hexatarnia) Would you like to eat picked cabbage for the rest of your life? I can guess you answer.
Why don't just put partly steamed/boiled things like salad, spinach, cale, parsley, green chilly, dill, mint under the algae scrubbing magnet for fish who thriving on the green matter to nibble on it, instead to poison them with such dire stuff as pickled cabbage. Its just not right! Flame me away!
Or do you mean: you want your tank to start to cycle with picked cabbage instead of raw tiger shrimp? Please clarify.