[SoYank]

Originally Posted by Nikki

Yes all of the corals and plants are real, well everything in the tank is real besides the equipment of course lol.

Yeah, the equipment is a figment of everyone's imagination.

[2009BMW335]

lookin good. i really like those zoas. don't want to hijack your thread, but here is a pic of my 12g cube. my girlfriend has been taking care of it for the past month and surprisingly only my gonipora and cleaner shrimp died. oh and i see you're in south florida, did you get your corals locally?

[Nikki]

Originally Posted by awesome

lookin good. i really like those zoas. don't want to hijack your thread, but here is a pic of my 12g cube. my girlfriend has been taking care of it for the past month and surprisingly only my gonipora and cleaner shrimp died. oh and i see you're in south florida, did you get your corals locally?

Looks nice!

Yeah all of the corals are either from Barrier Reef in Boca Raton or from people online that live in the area.

[2009BMW335]

sweet i've been to just about every fish shop in my area and it's hard to find corals that are worth the money.

[Nikki]

Originally Posted by awesome

sweet i've been to just about every fish shop in my area and it's hard to find corals that are worth the money.

Yeah I go to my LFS regularly and they hardly ever have anything worth it. I usually wait and maybe once a month they have some nice frags for like $15.

[TommyBahama]

Originally Posted by awesome

sweet i've been to just about every fish shop in my area and it's hard to find corals that are worth the money.

learn to dive buy a pick and rent a boat?

pics from my tank.

[2009BMW335]

Originally Posted by TommyBahama

learn to dive buy a pick and rent a boat?

eh i've been out with a slurp gun a few times and i realized i'm as blind as a bat. sweet pics though. what camera is that?

[TommyBahama]

Originally Posted by awesome

eh i've been out with a slurp gun a few times and i realized i'm as blind as a bat. sweet pics though. what camera is that?

nothing special just some random sony 4meg.

[just4kickz]

Originally Posted by Nikki

Yes all of the corals and plants are real, well everything in the tank is real besides the equipment of course lol.

u dont have any of those tank cleaning fish do u? are those salt water fishes?

[Nikki]

Originally Posted by just4kickz

u dont have any of those tank cleaning fish do u? are those salt water fishes?

I have a cleaner shrimp, hermit crabs, snails, and a sand sifting starfish that clean my tank.

[TommyBahama]

last year i made a totally self contained fish tank. cost me 18 bucks and it lived for 6 1/2 months w/o any help from me other than opening the blinds so it can get some light.

[2009BMW335]

Originally Posted by TommyBahama

last year i made a totally self contained fish tank. cost me 18 bucks and it lived for 6 1/2 months w/o any help from me other than opening the blinds so it can get some light.

what do you mean? what about filtration? how big was it? and were you holding corals??? i'd like to see pictures too, i'm pretty obsessed with aquariums

[findtom]

I love the little Nemo fish.

[findtom]

Originally Posted by TommyBahama

learn to dive buy a pick and rent a boat?

pics from my tank.

That is an ugly mofo right there.

[TommyBahama]

Originally Posted by awesome

what do you mean? what about filtration? how big was it? and were you holding corals??? i'd like to see pictures too, i'm pretty obsessed with aquariums

it was a fresh water tank, nothing real special. the light fed the plant, the plant fed the fish, the snail cleaned up after said fish.

it was completely sealed off it was for a self contained ecosystem project.

like i said it was only 18 bucks.

5 bucks for rocks 5 for jar i used as tank, 8 for plant and snail. fish was free.

[Alpine]

Originally Posted by Nikki

Yeah I go to my LFS regularly and they hardly ever have anything worth it. I usually wait and maybe once a month they have some nice frags for like $15.

Ok, I gotta ask, How do you know if a coral is 'worth it'?? I didn't know there was a science to corals in aquariums.

[teknochild]

Originally Posted by TommyBahama

it was a fresh water tank, nothing real special. the light fed the plant, the plant fed the fish, the snail cleaned up after said fish.

it was completely sealed off it was for a self contained ecosystem project.

like i said it was only 18 bucks.

5 bucks for rocks 5 for jar i used as tank, 8 for plant and snail. fish was free.

we did that in highschool biology with those jam jars, naturally many kids ended up with some green goopy smelly mess

[2009BMW335]

Originally Posted by Alpine

Ok, I gotta ask, How do you know if a coral is 'worth it'?? I didn't know there was a science to corals in aquariums.

to me a coral isn't worth it if it is
a)bleached or partially bleached
b)unhealthy looking or in a really dirty tank
c)way overpriced

a lot of the lfs i've been to down here have nice corals, but they are overpriced compared to deals i can find online including shipping. granted there is a huge opportunity cost and lfs like any local businesses need to make money. on the other hand, a lot of shops have extremely dirty tanks and corals that look nearly dead. i can't believe it when i see completely dead corals still for sale, but i see it regularly

edit: lfs=local fish shop