VERY EASY CORALS

[RUSS]

Anyone WHO HAS NOT DONE CORALS IN THERE TANK DUE TO COST OF EQUIPMENT OR DOES NOT KNOW HOW, I FOUND A COMPANY THAT MAKES ARTIFICIAL CORALS ,CAN'T BELIEVE HOW REAL THEY LOOK, THEY EVEN MAKE ANEMONES, CHECK IT OUT, THERE NOT CHEAP, IF FACT THE SAME PRICE S REAL CORALS BUT GOOD FOR US WHO DONT HAVE THE FUNDS TO GO REAL www.PRICE1.COM/AQUARIUM/CORAL/ (http://www.PRICE1.COM/AQUARIUM/CORAL/)

[tendar]

bad link

[RUSS]

TRY www.PRICE.COM/AQUARIUM/CORAL (http://www.PRICE.COM/AQUARIUM/CORAL), I WAS JUST ON IT
LOTS OF PEOPLE SAY CORALS ARE EASY BUT MY LACK OF KNOW HOW MAKES IT HARD, I BOUGHT WHAT I THOUGHT WOULD BE EASY, SOME FEATHER DUSTERS THIS WEEKEND AND LATTER IN THE DAY I NOTICED THIS GOO COMING OFF OF ONE, LONG STORY SHORT MY NITRITS JUMPED WHY HIGH, AFTER DOING A WATER CHANGE AND ADDING SOME CHEMICAL TO COUNTER THIS I STARTED TO THINK, THE ONLY REASON I WANTED CORALS IS BECASUE I THOUGHT ANEMONES WERE NEAT TO HAVE ,AFTER PRICING ALL THE LIGHTS AND SKIMMER BEFORE I EVEN GET TO THE CORALS I WAS LIKE MAN, TO MUCH MONEY RIGHT NOW ,I WOULD LIKE TO DO REAL CORALS DOWN THE ROAD BUT THIS IS GREAT FOR THOSE WHO ARE JUST STARING OUT AND DONT HAVE THE MONEY OR THE KNOW HOW AND THEY DO LOOK REAL ,I LOOKED AT THE CORALS ,PRNTED THEM THEN WENT TO A STORE AND COMPAIRED IF THEY LOOK REAL OR NOT, IM NEW TO SALT WATER SO I WANTED TO MAKE SURE THEY DIDNT LOOK LIKE FAKE STUFF ,ALSO ITS MY UNDERSTANDING AFTER DOING ALOT OF RESEARCH THAT ALOT OF PLACES THAT HAVE A LIVE REAF TANK USE THESE ARTIFICIAL CORALS WHICH I WOULD OF NEVER THOUGHT ABOUT OR NEW THE DIFFERENCE

[tendar]

Fake corals are great. I have one in my sea horse tank and will be getting some more for my swim tank.

[RUSS]

They sure look real to me, i looked at each and every one, if you go to the bottom of the page ,click on any of those little pictures, it brings you to a page for price, if you click on the coral in that page it opens a big picture of the coral, they sure look real to me, what i really liked and never saw anyplace else was the amemones ,pretty neat

[Katspaw]

Russ, Not a bad idea for a newbie, and while waiting to get the money to afford the lights and skimmer. Go for the skimmer first as your fish will love you for it too. You will encounter that coraline algae and micro algaes will love to grow on fake stuff, so you will be doing a little more cleaning to keep those fake corals looking real. A friend of mine has a F/O tank with some of those huge dead coral pieces that are white, and then black sand for his bed. Tanks looks very cool, But he has soo much more maintainance than I do. He has finnaly given that up to let the coral pieces become live rock and has started to add a couple of mushrooms and star polyps to the tank. Those are the easiest corals I have found in this hobby. I bought one rock with mushrooms back in 98 and a rock with green metalic zoo's. They are now everywhere in my tank. I just can't get rid of them.

Tracey

[RUSS]

I know what you mean Tracy, I have to clean my tank like every other day as it is, I really want live corals but themain problem is I have a dog face puffer and he seems to nip on things, already killed my feather dusters after an hour of being in the tank, not willing to give up the puffer though, I really love that fish, so cool, reminds me of my dog, also i have tangs that eat anything that looks like algea, afraid they will eat the mushrooms

[Katspaw]

The puffer I can understand, the tangs will not touch the corals. This I know as I have had a number of different tangs and they are herbivores in the wild. They are recommended for a reef tank. The puffer on the otherhand is not. If I was you, I would be saving for a protein skimmer before buying decorations. Geo Weber has DIY plans and he makes a very good one that isn't too expensive. I use his and it has not stopped working except the time I got five baby snails stuck in the air injection valve. Once I got them out, it hasn't stopped working. It is three years old. I have to clean the glass on my tank once every two weeks or so when I do water changes.

Tracey