GARRIGA
2500 Club Member
Honest question.
Why must one keep Acros to be considered a successful reef keeper? In the 80s mostly what I saw displayed were invert tanks where corals were all softies filled with shrimp and nudibranches (apparently most clueless to diet as they came and went) and fish. Seemed every tank had shrooms although no wort that I could remember. My 80s tank was one very large purple tip anemone and just never got around to fully transitioning because was told need Halide or VHO. Oddly that anemone survived just fine with off the shelf fluorescent and don't recall if I bothered making one 03 actinic which I was also told I needed. Tank was undergravel filtered with zero water changes. I was obviously clueless to ways of the reef but being in college and chasing college girls meant little money or time for being correct. Inadvertently, might have stumbled onto DLI because that tank stayed lit from time I left for school (8am) until time I returned from work or play (9:30pm to who knows when :) ).
My failure came about by two things. Fed that anemone one large grocery bought fresh shrimp that it spit out and then his guts. No idea what that was but in the trash it went. For all I know it might have survived but no R2R to post and likely off to school or work or play I went. Priorities.
Second failure was moving out and going reptiles where that 55 became a new home. Big hit with the girls. That anemone however never was :downcast-face-with-sweat: Damsels however :cool:
Was I ever a reefer or just some fool with water and pretty fish and for the longest time one very successful anemone that grew until it pooped itself out :thinking-face:
Why must one keep Acros to be considered a successful reef keeper? In the 80s mostly what I saw displayed were invert tanks where corals were all softies filled with shrimp and nudibranches (apparently most clueless to diet as they came and went) and fish. Seemed every tank had shrooms although no wort that I could remember. My 80s tank was one very large purple tip anemone and just never got around to fully transitioning because was told need Halide or VHO. Oddly that anemone survived just fine with off the shelf fluorescent and don't recall if I bothered making one 03 actinic which I was also told I needed. Tank was undergravel filtered with zero water changes. I was obviously clueless to ways of the reef but being in college and chasing college girls meant little money or time for being correct. Inadvertently, might have stumbled onto DLI because that tank stayed lit from time I left for school (8am) until time I returned from work or play (9:30pm to who knows when :) ).
My failure came about by two things. Fed that anemone one large grocery bought fresh shrimp that it spit out and then his guts. No idea what that was but in the trash it went. For all I know it might have survived but no R2R to post and likely off to school or work or play I went. Priorities.
Second failure was moving out and going reptiles where that 55 became a new home. Big hit with the girls. That anemone however never was :downcast-face-with-sweat: Damsels however :cool:
Was I ever a reefer or just some fool with water and pretty fish and for the longest time one very successful anemone that grew until it pooped itself out :thinking-face:
