Sorry, but I think the idea is a piece of raw shrimp or fish that has not been cooked yet. It has to convert to ammonia and I am not sure the cooked and tinned kind would do as well. Plus I am never sure you could get ALL the oil out and it would not take much to undo a whole tank of fish. Even with water changes, I would be afraid to say Go Ahead on that one.
The quickest option of the fishless cycles is the Ammonia method. It is somewhat of a job to find pure ammonia. Usually found at hardware stores and the such, but definitely worth the search I found as my tank cycled in about a week and it was okay to start using with only a water change as I did not have rotting flakes or any of the other stuff floating about in my tank. The directions are in one of the options under Fishless Cycling in the following article.
http://www.fishlore.com/NitrogenCycle.htm
It leaves you with a cycle that will support a couple of small fish to begin with. You must remember that even when the cycle is complete you are not going to be able to get all the fish at one time. They will have to be introduced slowly to avoid overloading the cycle and throwing your tank into a mini-cycle and setting the whole process back and risking losing fish. The first couple of weeks you can have a couple of small fish and then add a couple more and so on about every 2 weeks. I know that this is going to be a drag after the wait to have to wait to put them all in but it is worth the wait. Also the fish sound pretty. I do not think I would plan on adding a Ram in this tank. (MTS..here you come...good excuse for a second tank) You will want to do just one thing as far as order of introduction is considered. You always want to introduce the territorial fish LAST. (the gouramis) This allows the other fish to establish their territories and to make the gouramis think that they are entering a new territory that THEY must fit into. They will settle where there are not already fish to be dealt with more than likely and there will not be the fighting problems there would be if you allowed them to pick out THEIR territory first as they would consider it ALL their territory. Then every new fish you introduced would have had to fight for space and some of them would have died from fright. (Cories) If the cories and cardinals and others are all there first, the gouramis will not fight them as likely.
Hope this makes sense.
And Hatchet, thanks but I am not even close to being the most knowledgable one on the forum. I am just long winded
. Dino has been to college to study the fish and biology and Ross works with him. Carol has had many more kinds of fish and breeds her cories and plecos, something I would never be confident enough to do. Dave and Stacy have bred bettas and this is another thing that I am not confident enough to do myself. Mike and Agansoo have entered the world of Saltwater tanks and that is much more difficult and hard to learn than what I do. Kimberly has kept fish that fascinate me and she and Carol saw me through my stupid days when I did not know anything about anything (worst member for stupid mistakes I ever knew, ME)..those two and Dino were moderators on multiple forums and hold down full time jobs too. Oh, I could go on and on...and you have seen me do it. I just happen to be someone who has had a lot of time to spend with her fish and decided to learn about them. But I really do not know a whole lot more than I know, believe me. But I do thank you for the compliment.
Rose
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Lol, to me anyone who knows a ton more than me is 'probably one of the most knowledgable members on the forum'... And that's basically everyone counting my fish-non-knowledge!
