Thought this would interest some of you

[RedDmon]

I have a friend at work, he's got way too much $$$. He went to Big Al's and bought an entire Reef setup, 110 gallon. They did a real nice job setting it up, considering what he paid, they should have.

Thought this was unusual, the guy that set up the tank told them after 3 or 4 days to go get 4 Blue/Green Chromis'. I realize they're hardy fish, and cheap, but why buy the fish just to kill them, this morning his wife told me this, and that they had 4 floaters this morning.

Just passing along some info.

 

[bawla47]

part of being a responsible reefkeeper is we all know to do research and not listen to LFS's!!

 

[chinoxl3]

The dead fish will introduce bacteria into the tank and start the cycle. They usually sell stuff to do that and you can use fish also but it seems kind of cruel to me.

When I set up my tank a long time ago, I used damsels which I regreted later because they lived through the whole ordeal and wreaked havoc in my tank.

 

[db_triggerfish]

This was gospel, when i first started with marine aquariums early 90's and blue/green Chromis would die most of the time. The hardy ones for me were blue damsels. Today i know live rock and fish food to decay to feed bacteria.

 

[ReefWreak]

I just set up a friend's 10g tank up here in Tallahassee, and though we used cured liverock and bagged live sand, we used a b/g chromis to cycle it, and he is doing just fine. If the LR was cured, I would use a chromis, as cured LR doesn't cycle very much, but if it were raw, uncured LR fresh out of the box straight from fiji, I wouldn't use an animal.

 

[protege]

I used the chromis on my FOWLR, and all 3 are still alive. If I knew then, what I know now, I would have used LR. Even though they all lived, it was probably torture as the levels fluctuated. I don't like the food idea as it intoduces phosphates.

 

[RedDmon]

Grant it I'm new to Reefs, but I've had some sort of aquarium for quite a few years. With the reefs I was told, and use successfully a cooked shrimp straight from publix, it got the ammonia going for me, slowly watching the 'trites now.

 

[Young Frankenstein]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=12111028#post12111028 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by bawla47
part of being a responsible reefkeeper is we all know to do research and not listen to LFS's!!

:thumbsup: :thumbsup:

 

[scubasteve247]

just cause somethings bigger then everything else, doesnt make it better either