Ok I know alot of you have shunned the use of Nutrifin Cycle and I thought I would give my thoughts on it after using it on a constant basis. As most you all know- I am going through a Fishy cycle and being here in Australia it is one of a few products we have available to us to complement to start of cycling. (No Bio Spira I'm afraid and no possibility of importing)
What do I think of Nutrafin Cycle after getting p**sed off at the whole fishy cycle thing and feeling I got nothing to loose. I dumped a whole bottle of it in as one of the forum members attested that it helped him skip the cycling part of it. With skeptism I did just that. Hay what the heck.
Although I don't have any formal testing methods and most of us don't, I am around 85 percent sure that Nutrafin Cycle does not do what it claims to do. I beleive it is a product of false advertising. I went to my LFS and had it out with them also. The seem to think that it works and they use it on a constant basis. They are more inclined to think that due to Australias strict false advertising laws it wouldn't have passed through the net if it didnt do what claimed to do. On the other hand I dont know if it did anything at all hence the 15 percent doubt. Like most of you here I am jumping on the band wagon and giving Cycle the boot.
So anyway I gave it the flick and went down to the much cheaper alternative Aquariam Pharmaceuticals "Stress Zyme". Hell using their ammo-lock did exactly what it claimed to do but with mixed feelings and causing a bit of stress.
After doing a 25 percent waterchange I dumped 60mls of Stress Zyme in. The next day I was extra surprised to see my tank crystal clear and all the fishys coming up to me and smiling :dance: errr you get the picture. Now I am not to sure if it has increased the bacteria content but it sure has done something good. Deffinetly something that a whole bottle of Cycle couldn't do thats for sure. So I have decided to stick with Stress Zyme for now. As far as off the shelf bacteria is concerned I think Stress Zyme is a far better product than Cycle is if you live in an area that bio Spira is not available (such as me). I would like to get some opinions on Stress Zyme from other forum members and newbies alike as I am sure it has done something good
for me? Anybody else used it? So fire away......
What do I think of Nutrafin Cycle after getting p**sed off at the whole fishy cycle thing and feeling I got nothing to loose. I dumped a whole bottle of it in as one of the forum members attested that it helped him skip the cycling part of it. With skeptism I did just that. Hay what the heck.
Although I don't have any formal testing methods and most of us don't, I am around 85 percent sure that Nutrafin Cycle does not do what it claims to do. I beleive it is a product of false advertising. I went to my LFS and had it out with them also. The seem to think that it works and they use it on a constant basis. They are more inclined to think that due to Australias strict false advertising laws it wouldn't have passed through the net if it didnt do what claimed to do. On the other hand I dont know if it did anything at all hence the 15 percent doubt. Like most of you here I am jumping on the band wagon and giving Cycle the boot.
So anyway I gave it the flick and went down to the much cheaper alternative Aquariam Pharmaceuticals "Stress Zyme". Hell using their ammo-lock did exactly what it claimed to do but with mixed feelings and causing a bit of stress.
After doing a 25 percent waterchange I dumped 60mls of Stress Zyme in. The next day I was extra surprised to see my tank crystal clear and all the fishys coming up to me and smiling :dance: errr you get the picture. Now I am not to sure if it has increased the bacteria content but it sure has done something good. Deffinetly something that a whole bottle of Cycle couldn't do thats for sure. So I have decided to stick with Stress Zyme for now. As far as off the shelf bacteria is concerned I think Stress Zyme is a far better product than Cycle is if you live in an area that bio Spira is not available (such as me). I would like to get some opinions on Stress Zyme from other forum members and newbies alike as I am sure it has done something good
for me? Anybody else used it? So fire away......
