Omg I LOVE that gorgonian. Gotta check them out! Thanks!Russ @ gulf coast eosysyems. Where I got mine. Great quality and pricing.
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Omg I LOVE that gorgonian. Gotta check them out! Thanks!Russ @ gulf coast eosysyems. Where I got mine. Great quality and pricing.
I would consider this as a coral keeper.I like to keep acros, but I also want the challenge of keeping extremely bright and colorful acros staying extremely bright and colorful
I would consider this as a coral keeper.
You like the challenge, and have a certain taste.
You mean to frag them and keep their DNA in a separate system in case something happens you still have them?
I also like to wait for them to grow out to colonies so that if something drastic happens in the main display, I still have that coral. So.... collector?
I follow this same principal with gardening too!I have heard it said before but once I realized we are just keepers of water it made things a lot more simple. Get your water/parameters in order and it's that simple
I feel like this got lost somewhere along the way. I seedes dry rock with live and it was super difficult to even get my hands on decent looking live rock. The closest LFS that carries it is 3.5 hours away. I picked up a little when i was in town for something else, and i finally got a little more from a local reefer breaking down a tank. But its also holy moly expensive when you can find it. Which is why i seeded dry with a bit of live.I try to be ecosystem driven. The comensal inverts and micro components, hitchhikers and things that fill certain niches are super cool to me and I would rather have a tank filled with diversity rather than a flat of tiles with a gallery of high ends corals. Nothing is wrong with that, I just prefer the whole reef experience as much as I can. I miss the days of getting a shipment of rock and just watching stuff grow off of the rocks.
Russ @ gulf coast eosysyems. Where I got mine. Great quality and pricing.
Do you consider yourself a collector of corals or a keeper of corals?
For me I think I had more "joy" in the hobby when I went from trying to collect to just "keeping" what I had to the best of my ability.
I agree with you 100%. I believe most people are both, whether they like it or not. Jake Adam’s was a collector, he wanted one coral of every species. Had tanks dedicated to particular species and tried to provide the best habitats for each species. How many of us, me included, if we had the time, space, and money wouldn’t love to have separate tanks where we could have all the things we always wanted to have in our tanks but couldn’t because they couldn’t live in our current systems. He was a collector, And who loved corals more than him? He dedicated his life to them. Collecting doesn’t have to be looked at so negatively. We all collect in one fashion or another and I don’t think anyone here on this forum does it without the best intentions for these animals. Pulling out some of the colors I’ve seen pictured here that people accomplish with their corals. That takes a lot of work, time and love. By providing these animal with the best possible situation you have happy colorful animals. That’s all we should be concerned with.I started as just a keeper a decade ago, but my excitement over beautiful corals has definitely turned into collecting... it's hard to not want everything! I'm now upgrading to a larger system and debating a frag tank as well, haha. Reading through the comments, there seems to be a negative connotation of "collector" in this thread and a notion that if one is a "collector" they don't care for these living things. Those two things are far from being mutually exclusive. I try to make my system as good as I can possibly make it and keep my corals as healthy as I can. A lot of time, effort, and money goes into doing so.