Re: New tropical fish keeper advice
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With regards to stress zyme, this crops up in quite a lot of posts actually. To quote EagleC from another thread (I'm sure he wouldn't mind..
.." Magic Potions like "Nutrafin Cycle" won't do any harm but it is also very unlikely that they will do any good. For years they sold this stuff with the wrong strains of bacteria in it and I don't know of anyone that has actually seen the product do anything more than drain their bank balance. Not that it's very expensive, just pointless. Bacteria need food and oxygen to survive and they get neither in a sealed bottle on a shelf so they start to die as soon as they're stocked.
The only product in the UK that we can prove does something is Bactinettes and they will be in the stores fridge with a use-by date on them. Most maidenheads (including Fair Oak) will sell Bactinettes."
Linz will also be able to give you the low down too, but seasoned fish keepers would tell you to save your pennies...
I did try Bactinettes too once, folowing a crash after meds, which really knocked the filter. Although they seem to work for some people, by speeding up the cycling, for me, it was still a further 38 days or so, until the bacteria fully kicked in again.
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