need tips on marine life.

just saying what i learnt in otehr forums, may be wrong but its what ive been saying ever since i got here and not until know im being told that im wrong, not trying to say anything bad but i could have done with that information a little earlier since that was on the first page.
 
care bear said:
ye, my pink xenia defently dieing, its starting to mult.
do you think i should get it out of there or leave it to make sure its not going to recover.
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As to your coral. I have no idea. I'm pretty much a n00b on all this.

However, I have been reading for hours a day for the last...two months or so. ;)

My xenia opened one time when i got it home, at night under my LEDS (which I thought was weird) and then it started shrinking noticably on the fragged rock it was on. Right now, you can't necessarily even tell it was there anymore.

It was a small sampling though.

I do have a pink anthelia in the tank which has some little dudes growing on the side that i don't think were there (or at least as noticable) when I got it. It's the biggest thing in my tank.

Anyway, good luck. You should really look around and see if you can find a local club and hook up with some guys.

I met a guy with a cooler in his back seat off US 287 at a McDonalds yesterday who gave me 5 frags and a bag of snails for $40. The other day I went to a guy's house in Red Bank who had so much coral in his tank, the ones on the bottom were taking a hit from lack of light. He gave me a nice sized rock with about 10 mushrooms on it, a piece he'd broken off some kind of acro or monti or something (see I don't even know what it is), as well as a nice fragspawn head for $20.

That Anthelia the guy threw in for free when i bought 17 turbo snails (the biggest of which is almost tennisball sized) for $20.

I don't know if it's ok to mention other forums, but reef central has a huge section of local clubs at the bottom of their forum.

It pays to hook up with hobbiests. or hobbyists. One or the other. ;)
 
i tried joining a club, hard to get on one when your only 14 years old, they dont really trust you....... (i got denied anyway since i dont have a tank yet as well as being 14)
 
musho3210 said:
if you are a long way from upgrading the lighting system, you can ask your lfs to take care of your xenias until you get the light.
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thanks but i dont think theres any need, one of them is fine, the pink one i think is going to die, either way. he hs been pooly from the beginin, probably already dead ehen arrived in post. i just carnt tell

i told my lfs, that i think i need more lighting for my xenias. he said the ones he has in the shop are just under standerd fluresent tubes, and they are fine,
he said theres no hurry for lighting.

thanks for your sugestion though :)

clare
 
clare bear said:
thanks but i dont think theres any need, one of them is fine, the pink one i think is going to die, either way. he hs been pooly from the beginin, probably already dead ehen arrived in post. i just carnt tell

i told my lfs, that i think i need more lighting for my xenias. he said the ones he has in the shop are just under standerd fluresent tubes, and they are fine,
he said theres no hurry for lighting.

thanks for your sugestion though :)

clare
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floresent tubes arnt even close to what xenia need.... or any coral for that fact.
 
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.
 
every time iv been in there he has hd xenias, they must be ok, other wise, he wouldnt be how to keep them, or sell them for a fact. iv known him to have sold them for 3 years or so.

silly question, but do you think we might have diffrent lighting options in the uk. that might be why people in uk can keep corals under lower wattage?

clare
 
clare bear said:
every time iv been in there he has hd xenias, they must be ok, other wise, he wouldnt be how to keep them, or sell them for a fact. iv known him to have sold them for 3 years or so.

silly question, but do you think we might have diffrent lighting options in the uk. that might be why people in uk can keep corals under lower wattage?

clare
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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.
 
no flourescents are internationally the same i think, only different volts used on the plug. Are you sure he is using NO flourecents not HO or VHO or T5? they sort of look the same
 
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