Coral Turnover

[mjdlonghorn]

I have been thinking about setting up a reef aquarium for sometime. I visit my LFS often and I notice that he always new corals added to his display tank. After a week or so some montiporas are dead and bleached. Some elegance corals are just bones leathers wither up after about 2 weeks.

My question is this normal. When you buy coral do you expect such a heavy turnover. I have kept marine fish for a while and most of my fish (90%) live in the longrun. Are corals more fragile than fish? I am afraid to buy some brain corals and have it turn to a skeleton after a few weeks.

 

[Amphiprion]

This sort of turnover is appalling and is anything but successful. If well taken care of, you can expect them to live a long time (in theory, almost indefinitely).

 

[Marinemom]

Don't buy from that store. It sounds like they do not know the proper care for thier corals and the water quality is probably questionable at best.

Marinemom