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I think most of us are interested in a reef tank (you know, corals and fish) and not a worm tank
Valid counter point. They are, however, mutually inclusive. Most you would never see although I get it is personal preference.
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I think most of us are interested in a reef tank (you know, corals and fish) and not a worm tank
I start with dry everything. Rock, sand, rubble, etc.
I them add all of the macrofauna and other critters that I desire. Helps me keep control.
I also dip and qt everything that I add.
What you said - Nothing wrong with biodiversity until you lose several hundred in corals over a weekend and can't figure out why until you start hearing that damned clicking noise and have to take your tank apart to find it.. No thanks - I remain a control freak.
you've had corals taken down by mantis or pistols?..... do tell..
you've had corals taken down by mantis or pistols?..... do tell..
what a waste of perfectly good biodiversity.......i cant believe half the crap i see on this forum.....
Good thing the other half provides useful and insightful information then or you would have no reason to keep coming back.
quarantine your live rock, feed your animals, water change. those critters on your live rock are valuable, all of them.
There speaks a man who has never had to tear down a tank to get rid of a pest.
Or he simply has a different view on keeping a reef than you guys do. Shockingly not all that uncommon to see when you gather thousands of people together, there is no "right" way to do it.
Many of those "pests" listed very well could be fine, pistol shrimps are mostly harmless, depending on the mantis could be the same. Bristle worms are great for part of the CUC. Different strokes for different folks
Certain types of mantis shrimp like to live in coral colonies which can cause damage to the specimen.
yeah, like 'cooking' live rock....like pretending that pistol shrimps, mantis shrimps and all those worms are taking out your expensive corals and fish , that it's not your inability to understand the micro ecosystems you're trying to maintain, or your sad husbandry techniques..it's the fault of all those tiny invertebrates that you read about by some 'intelligent' reef keeper here, the guy selling you x and y filtration to get your x and y chemistry together. because that's the real problem... right?
the pathetic nonsense i've read here makes me ill..... and then some of you have the pansy mentality to cry over what's happening to the gbr.
biodiversity, everything that op killed here, saves your 'reef' tank..
feed it with live phytoplankton, not 'cook' it with elevated sg.
quarantine your 'live' rock before introduction, observe it, remove what you don't want... there are no 'pests', just what you've been told not to have in there. all those dead worms would help maintain ops 'reef'... but now he just has a 'fish tank'.... thanks to guys like you
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I think the main concern is anyone new viewing this thread and being "OMG LOOK AT ALL THOSE BAD THINGS" and then proceeding to do the same with their tank.
In the end, is it really worth killing all those creatures because there's a somewhat rare chance you "might" have a mantis shrimp which will apparently want to tear apart your whole tank?
How many guys go through this process and find no mantis shrimp or bad crabs? Many I'd assume....However we don't read about those ones do we? Meanwhile all the worms, brittle stars, porcelain crabs, etc etc etc are toast.