Ashibashi
Community Member
Hey guys! Happy 4th of July weekend.
On the car ride tagging along to and from getting fireworks I got to daydreaming about reef tanks.
I've been devouring troubleshooting threads on here for the past couple weeks. People with 3-6 months and over tanks, all the latest and greatest tech, parameters perfect, and corals/fish/inverts still failing to thrive. Some even saying their corals pucker up within minutes of hitting the water.
what the heck do people do to get the water right at coral expos/frag swaps that are only set up for a few days? They can't possibly be transporting that quantity of water there and back? For that matter I've been to a few lfs with coral displays.- just tanks sitting like kitchen islands in the middle of the shop, no sump to be seen, basically no rock in the tank, all the frags just sitting on little acrylic shelves and some pipes sticking out the bottom. One shop near me is Vivid Aquariums, you can look at the photos and see what I mean. The stuff under those displays look nothing like a sump/skimmer/refugium system you see under hobbyist tanks.
What gives? How do vendors at coral expos manage to have their corals looking vibrant and healthy in presumably brand new freshly prepped water, especially after the trauma of being transported? What equipment are they using at fish stores?
On the car ride tagging along to and from getting fireworks I got to daydreaming about reef tanks.
I've been devouring troubleshooting threads on here for the past couple weeks. People with 3-6 months and over tanks, all the latest and greatest tech, parameters perfect, and corals/fish/inverts still failing to thrive. Some even saying their corals pucker up within minutes of hitting the water.
what the heck do people do to get the water right at coral expos/frag swaps that are only set up for a few days? They can't possibly be transporting that quantity of water there and back? For that matter I've been to a few lfs with coral displays.- just tanks sitting like kitchen islands in the middle of the shop, no sump to be seen, basically no rock in the tank, all the frags just sitting on little acrylic shelves and some pipes sticking out the bottom. One shop near me is Vivid Aquariums, you can look at the photos and see what I mean. The stuff under those displays look nothing like a sump/skimmer/refugium system you see under hobbyist tanks.
What gives? How do vendors at coral expos manage to have their corals looking vibrant and healthy in presumably brand new freshly prepped water, especially after the trauma of being transported? What equipment are they using at fish stores?
