need tips on marine life.

[clare bear]

standard fluorescents (aka NO fluorescents) are ok short-term i guess, it also matters how many tubes there are. But anyway you recieved a dying one from them so i wouldnt trust there lighting system. As for the dying one, if you are certain its dead remove it as a rotting coral can cause havoc on your bio-load.

i didnt get the xenias from him, i got them from an aquatics mail order, off the net.
dont worry ill never get live stock posted again.
just a silly moment of mine

clare

 

[musho3210]

what website did you get it off from, does it have warranty?

 

[clare bear]

Andy needs to step in here but corals only stay in fish stores a few weeks or so...they need to be sold and are usually. at my old work my boss was so ignorant that if corals were there more than a month they would die. i wouldnt trust the fish store that much...look it up for urself if u dont believe us.

ill live and learn

 

[Germanman]

ill live and learn

very good motto

 

[musho3210]

another good motto is you get what you pay for lol, thats my motto (my mom doesnt follow it, always looking for the cheapest stuff, gotta do some convincing when i get some of the expensive stuff)

Are all the corals at your lfs under NO light, if the high light corals like some lps, sps, and anemones are under NO light, talk to the owner about it.

 

[Catpicklesdog]

Andy needs to step in here but corals only stay in fish stores a few weeks or so...they need to be sold and are usually. at my old work my boss was so ignorant that if corals were there more than a month they would die. i wouldnt trust the fish store that much...look it up for urself if u dont believe us.

Same in UK!!! (although my LFS has a special coral tank and guess what - he uses halides!!!!

 

[clare bear]

what website did you get it off from, does it have warranty?

i think its just a small company that just grows corals. it dosent have warrenty, lol
like i said just a silly moment, ill stick to shops, atleast i can buy them, then get them straight home.

clare

 

[Catpicklesdog]

i think its just a small company that just grows corals. it dosent have warrenty, lol
like i said just a silly moment, ill stick to shops, atleast i can buy them, then get them straight home.

clare

That's the disadvantage of buying online. You can't see what you're getting. At least at your LFS you can see for yourself how everything is before you choose what you want.

 

[musho3210]

yeah, hopefully didnt cost too much, would suck if you lost something like a 200 dollar/pound coral

 

[clare bear]

another good motto is you get what you pay for lol, thats my motto (my mom doesnt follow it, always looking for the cheapest stuff, gotta do some convincing when i get some of the expensive stuff)

Are all the corals at your lfs under NO light, if the high light corals like some lps, sps, and anemones are under NO light, talk to the owner about it.

he has alsorts of corals, there unders suficent lighting, in a sepret tank.
the xenias are in a normal standerd light tank, thats what puzzles me, if he thought they needed the extra lighting, why wouldnt he just put them in with the other corals, in the t5 set up?

every body has there own way of of doing things, and it obviously works for him.

clare