fake coral

[Absint Reefer]

Looking for some desent looking fake coral pieces for seahorse perching
Anyone know a good site to find them?
:bounce3:

 

[AquaReeferMan]

Pure Aquatic makes a few that would work with horses. That Fish Place sells them. Below is a few. You can search "pure aquatic coral" on the website for the rest.

http://www.thatpetplace.com/pet/prod/250908/product.web
http://www.thatpetplace.com/pet/prod/250893/product.web
http://www.thatpetplace.com/pet/prod/250894/product.web
http://www.thatpetplace.com/pet/prod/250898/product.web

 

[Absint Reefer]

so I just found out fake coral is the same price as real coral
:fun2:

 

[b_s_c1]

Yeah but you dont have to feed it or keep the water quality near perfect. Wait you said seahores tank, well at least you dont have to feed it.

 

[Absint Reefer]

I'd rather feed then clean. Anything for the ponies i guess

 

[tkeracer619]

Get some sponges and photosynthetic gorgonians. The fake stuff often costs more then the real stuff.

 

[dzfish17]

I recently purchased some synthetic corals from dlmanwarren that look realistic. They are pricey but if you average out the cost of a artificial coral to a real coral over say a 5-10 yr. period than I would think the artificial coral would be cheaper.

I started a thread about artificial corals awhile back and everyone was saying that they would be hard to keep clean so I did a test with some of the corals.

I placed some in a vat of SW (5 mo. old) with T5 lights running 24/7 that has alot off algae and it took almost 3 weeks for the corals to get a little algae on them. I lifted the corals out and with a toilet bowl brush the algea came off in a matter of seconds. They actually looked better with some algae on them.

I think people jump on the bandwagon and assume the artificial corals will be hard to clean even if they have never tried it for themselves.

Dave

 

[Bloodritual]

Maybe I'm wrong but the fake decor not fake corals I put in my tank literally turned purple with coraline in a week. (deliberately put it in my tank with the inent that it gets covered with coraline, tube worms etc)

 

[Absint Reefer]

I've noticed that too. I have a skull and a vase in my reef tank and they both have coraline and mushrooms growing on them.
Is that why they use that gel plastic stuff to make fake coral with?

 

[Bloodritual]

That's what I was thinking, I always thought coraline would grow on anything that's practically not alive and moving. Which is why unlike freshwater setups we don't put any type of artificial decorations in our tank unless the purpose is to deliberately get it covered.

 

[alan214]

I just set up my 73G FOWLR with artificial corals. I will post updates in a month or so regarding algae growth of any kind (especially coraline).

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