Are you ever done stocking? Are you addicted?

[REEF-DADDY]

I mean with red bugs running rampant, still no easy cure for AEFW have any of you considered just letting what's in your tank grow? My 280 is packed with frags, when they grow to become colonies I'll have to cull some out. I still can't stop buying corals! Every time I buy a new coral I swear its the last, but even as I type this I have an itchy finger. It just does not make sense to me as every new addition jeopardizes the tank in some way. Obviously I do not run a QT tank. The time and cost of managing the 400 gallon system is already have is enough for me.


Are you addicted?

 

[TCU Reefer]

So true.

I'm still in the process of stocking my system but even when it gets full, I'm positive that I'll always be able to find a little real estate for new corals. It truly is an addiction.

 

[Brewen]

Hi my name is Gary Brewen and I am a SPS addict. The LFS employee told me when I bought my first SPS be careful the next thing you know you will be addicted to the SPS. I quitely laughed at him because he knows nothing about me.
Since then I have sold my 80 gal tank filled with LPS and Sofities. I now have a 120 AGA strictly set up for SPS of all sorts. No I cannot stop myself it has consumed my life. I faintly remember children and a wife in my life but now it is me and my tank(the wife and children think the tank is awesome but are concerned about my addiction).
Again my name is Gary Brewen and I am a SPS Addict!

 

[PUGroyale]

I'm pretty sure my wife and kids may have left some time back... can't say exactly when... :lol2:

My problem is I'm fully stocked, everything is running smoothly/ growing, corals look amazing... and now I'm just sorta bored. I need a fix :lol:

 

[blstravler]

My problem is I'm fully stocked, everything is running smoothly/ growing, corals look amazing... and now I'm just sorta bored. I need a fix

Sooooo true

 

[matt the fiddler]

I went a good 9-12 months with out adding any fish or coral...


sadly, i had a heat spike kill a bunch of stuff when my chiller died... and i gave others away..
So i am back to the starting to stock again

SO you who are full. share the love set up a frag grow out system.

 

[nwrogers]

Yes shamefully I am addicted too I suppose once I run out of room for new corals I will start another tank or frag out some big colonies for some newer cooler frags Luckily I don’t have that problem yet...

 

[chadfarmer]

i have a packed 58 and i have 13 sps on the bottom of the tank because i cant add any more to rock unless i want fighting


i change out the ones i dont like for more colorful ones when one catches my eyes

 

[cwegescheide]

I have pretty much reached maximum density in my 90. I have room for grow out but thats about it. Corals wont have to get that big before they start running into each other. I've already started looking at corals that I don't think is that spectacular to make room for the others to grow. For now I'm pretty much done until I get a house and set up my monster tank


Oh and DON'T LEARN THE HARD WAY. Set up a QT tank. So far I have battled the red bugs and now my two Tangs have a killer case of Ich. Now I set up the QT/Frag tank. You can do serious damage to an established reef by adding one infected coral/fish. Not worth the risk.

Chris

 

[143gadgets]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=7884272#post7884272 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by chadfarmer
i have a packed 58 and i have 13 sps on the bottom of the tank because i cant add any more to rock unless i want fighting


i change out the ones i dont like for more colorful ones when one catches my eyes

Same here!

 

[dots]

I have seen a few tanks with a few nice LARGE corals. See cwards for example.

At the moment I mysefl am still trying to figure out what I want exactly, and my options got a whole lot better ugrading to 250's over a 75g.

I think that I will fill it up with a few interesting pieces grow them out for the experience and trade up to rarer more interesting stuff as time goes by.

But the couple I have seen where really cool with a few rarer pieces that were just HUGE. I think the larger colonies will be a new trend, rather than little frags, because it it a testament to your continued success,patience and knowledge/passion to grow a small frag out to a mongo sized show piece.

 

[REEF-DADDY]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=7883775#post7883775 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by PUGroyale
I'm pretty sure my wife and kids may have left some time back... can't say exactly when... :lol2:

My problem is I'm fully stocked, everything is running smoothly/ growing, corals look amazing... and now I'm just sorta bored. I need a fix :lol:

Your offically in the danger zone.

 

[WayneL333]

Re: Are you ever done stocking? Are you addicted?

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=7883373#post7883373 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by REEF-DADDY
I mean with red bugs running rampant, still no easy cure for AEFW have any of you considered just letting what's in your tank grow? My 280 is packed with frags, when they grow to become colonies I'll have to cull some out. I still can't stop buying corals! Every time I buy a new coral I swear its the last, but even as I type this I have an itchy finger. It just does not make sense to me as every new addition jeopardizes the tank in some way. Obviously I do not run a QT tank. The time and cost of managing the 400 gallon system is already have is enough for me.


Are you addicted?

That's exactly why I am done stocking. I can't imagine getting an FTD (Frag Transmitted Disease) in my 300 with everything I've got in there. I'm sure a treatment would kill off one prized posession or another. In any account, I'm letting my current frags grow out and waiting to see what becomes of this AEFW, red bugs, monty eating nudi's, etc fiasco.

 

[chrisaggie]

I have decided to be happy with the corals I have and let everything grow. I am minimizing new additions to my tank to reduce the risk of red bug, aefw, or any other pests to my tank.

 

[MiddletonMark]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=7888297#post7888297 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by chrisaggie
I have decided to be happy with the corals I have and let everything grow. I am minimizing new additions to my tank to reduce the risk of red bug, aefw, or any other pests to my tank.

Having been burned by pests, I'm done adding corals with regularity. I'd rather grow what I have big than risk losing what I have.

 

[Znut Reefer]

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Originally posted by chrisaggie
I have decided to be happy with the corals I have and let everything grow. I am minimizing new additions to my tank to reduce the risk of red bug, aefw, or any other pests to my tank.
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Originally posted by MiddletonMark
I'm done adding corals with regularity. I'd rather grow what I have big than risk losing what I have.

I agree, just not worth the risks! So the addiction will have to be with what I already have in my tank.

 

[getwood65]

now lets hear from the truly addicted who use all the pest horrors as a good excuse with the spouse to go spend another 600 or 700 hundred on a growout/qt tank.look at the progression of this hobby-first it was about keeping them alive-next came keeping them colorful-now it's about keeping them pest free.

 

[Ryanqk]

In 1-1/2 years i went from a 3 gl nano to a 55gl reef, i'm on the fast track to reefers anonomous lol
Ryan

 

[Syris]

I just set up a new 125g SPS tank this year and its only 1/2 full. Im afraid of all these coral diseases myself and dont have much room for a SPS QT tank but I do QT new fish.
So that being said there are only 2 people in the fish group I belong too who I trust the frags are free of disease. So iam sticking to them for new additions.

 

[64Ivy]

I'm pretty much done; just have room for two more frags and I'm really taking my time looking for them. I've already been through Red Bugs and just the thought of AEFW gives me the absolute willies. I'm not even putting any new LR in the tank for awhile!