Its not just time, for me, its money. If you are keeping SPS, you are
probably using a high light, high current "clean" system (heavy protien
skimming). That takes a lot of $$. In order to set up a seperate system, you
are going to have to closely match that of your original system, otherwise
you are going to shock the corals when you switch them, and that may result
in an even more rapid decline.
My advice, do not buy wild collected corals. I will tell you this, I feel
like shit that this is happening to my tank. I have been doing this for a
long time, and consider myself adequatly knowledgable in the hobby. If I had
done this to a tank full of wild caught colonies of corals, I dont think I
would even consider keeping coral anymore. If I loose all of these SPS, it
will suck in huge amounts, but at least I have not contributed to the
decline of the reefs, and if I replace the corals, it will be with frags
again, not wild collected specimens.
The worst part is the fear of my failure to keep them, not knowing what has
happened to cause this. My tank is overall in pretty good shape. Each piece
of coral in the tank has been in their for no less than 4 months. Then all
the sudden, whamo. It sucks, but I can still sleep at night knowing I did
not destroy reefs for my corals....and wont next time around.
Off my soap box now....
IMO
Shane C.
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> Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2001 4:08 PM
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> is this sort of thing a common occurence in SPS corals i am just beginning
> to
> get some SPS frags and whatnot. And i believe that if what someone said
> about
> it being a immune system failure then most likely it is controlled by
> hormones which is why healthy tissues are affected from the contact of
> previously infected corals? Perhaps it would not be a bad idea to keep a
> seperate system set up to place corals in these emergencies. Just
> wondering
> if i shoudl take the time to do that.
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