TriggerThis
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Hi, I started a reef tank two months ago and I decided to do it without reading one word on anything.
Literally every animal I have put in it has died within an hour. I've killed almost one of everything from petco until one of the employees showed the Instant Ocean salt! He said using salt from the grocery store wouldn't work! But ima keep trying with Morton's brand for now. The other is too expensive.
After all, I've already spent close to three hundred on fish and coral this month.
Anyone know of a fish that's good for beginners or coral that won't die so easy?
Here's a pic of my tank.
Thanks I need help!
This was a dramatization of several post I've been reading over the past week.
They make me mad about the death to the animals most of all but mostly at the ignorance of the people.
Don't get me wrong, just because your asking questions doesn't mean your dumb, I'm talking basic step one questions that every single article on anything saltwater related will tell you.
So instantly right off the bat you can tell they have researched nothing about it and then come on a forum site and want the members who cringe at every new one posted to lead them through step by step how to just run a saltwater tank. Not to mention the individual care requirements for every single animal in it!
I read EVERY SINGLE ARTICLE I could find online, I watched EVERY SINGLE MrSaltwatertank video, every BRS video, about a dozen other how to run a saltwater tank video series on YouTube. NYSteelo is a great one.
I searched every forum site made for how to set up articles for every piece of Equipment, what was needed where it was placed and why and what to avoid.
This was all before I even bought a tank!!!
I had live rock cycling in my laundry room before my tank had water in it.
I have had my tank for 9 months. It is my first ever saltwater tank. It's 100 gallons, I'm no millionaire, I bought every single piece of equipment used and off eBay used, the tank is even used. (So don't say u can't afford a skimmer) I can count on one hand how many corals I have lost. I know exactly which ones they are and how they died. I have lost one fish also in that time. I know exactly how it died and why.
The reason I did all of that was Bc I care about the fish and the corals and I wanted to make them as happy as possible as I bought them.
Is that a crazy thing to want?
When I see posts of why are my corals dying? Then they say they only have a PH test kit. Um that's probably why your corals are dying, I'm a Master detective and it took my expert advise of you don't know anything about what your doing to figure it out.
And the animals pay the price
My rant is over
Just plus one if you know what I'm talking about
Literally every animal I have put in it has died within an hour. I've killed almost one of everything from petco until one of the employees showed the Instant Ocean salt! He said using salt from the grocery store wouldn't work! But ima keep trying with Morton's brand for now. The other is too expensive.
After all, I've already spent close to three hundred on fish and coral this month.
Anyone know of a fish that's good for beginners or coral that won't die so easy?
Here's a pic of my tank.
Thanks I need help!
This was a dramatization of several post I've been reading over the past week.
They make me mad about the death to the animals most of all but mostly at the ignorance of the people.
Don't get me wrong, just because your asking questions doesn't mean your dumb, I'm talking basic step one questions that every single article on anything saltwater related will tell you.
So instantly right off the bat you can tell they have researched nothing about it and then come on a forum site and want the members who cringe at every new one posted to lead them through step by step how to just run a saltwater tank. Not to mention the individual care requirements for every single animal in it!
I read EVERY SINGLE ARTICLE I could find online, I watched EVERY SINGLE MrSaltwatertank video, every BRS video, about a dozen other how to run a saltwater tank video series on YouTube. NYSteelo is a great one.
I searched every forum site made for how to set up articles for every piece of Equipment, what was needed where it was placed and why and what to avoid.
This was all before I even bought a tank!!!
I had live rock cycling in my laundry room before my tank had water in it.
I have had my tank for 9 months. It is my first ever saltwater tank. It's 100 gallons, I'm no millionaire, I bought every single piece of equipment used and off eBay used, the tank is even used. (So don't say u can't afford a skimmer) I can count on one hand how many corals I have lost. I know exactly which ones they are and how they died. I have lost one fish also in that time. I know exactly how it died and why.
The reason I did all of that was Bc I care about the fish and the corals and I wanted to make them as happy as possible as I bought them.
Is that a crazy thing to want?
When I see posts of why are my corals dying? Then they say they only have a PH test kit. Um that's probably why your corals are dying, I'm a Master detective and it took my expert advise of you don't know anything about what your doing to figure it out.
And the animals pay the price
My rant is over
Just plus one if you know what I'm talking about
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