One more article on fishless cycling

Here is an excellent article on fishless cycling that sums up almost everthing... note it contradicts something in the prior articles I linked about urine, but such is the hobby. I tend to believe the earlier article about urine as the author got into the hows and whys; this one just tells you not to do it without any explanation at all.

When someone tells me don't, I want to know why. Especially in this hobby which is rife with bullshit, half-truths, and misinformation.

If they can't supply a viable reason, in most cases they're perpetuating a myth. Take the old discus-angelfish scenario. I keep discus and angelfish together no problemo and have been doing so for more than a year. What many people now consider to be a myth was once truth many years ago before angelfish were uniformly captive bred and introduced the parasite of which they were carriers to discus. But the thing is people kept saying DON'T mix them, and very few knew why.

Just think if Ulysses had told his men the bag of treasure he was closely guarding was the north wind which would take them all the way back to Ithaca, instead of telling them only NOT to touch it, they would have been home a lot sooner... and some of his men would have actually lived.

- Josh