The Official Asylum Reef Tank Thread

4WheelVFR · 07-31-2013, 06:12 PM

Beautiful! Love the Clarion Angel. I also was able to get fish at wholesale, and it's amazing at how "cheap" you can get fish. $100 fish were $20 and $1000 fish were a couple hundred bucks or so.

Blueface · 08-01-2013, 05:32 AM

Hopefully obvious by my prior post but thought I would add that 99% of fish are not killed by the hobbyist, they are killed by parasites and the bacterial infections they cause in a confined environment, where the parasites can readily reproduce.

Most saltwater fish are very tolerant to immediate introduction into new water with no acclamation. I did this successfully all the time.
Most are tolerant to fluctuating salinity. I kept some in .12 for months, as better for disease recovery since their body doesn't have to filter as much salt that penetrates due to weakened immunity and weakened slime coat, which is their primary salt filter/shield. Most don't know that salt water fish filter the salt to survive and as such, they are completely tolerant to a five minute or more fresh water dip which kills parasites.
They can even handle fluctuations in temperature up to as much as 86-87 degrees or higher if air pumps added.

They just can't handle a wave of zombies attacking them with nowhere to run or hide or new fish with zombies already attached waiting to pop out of their shells and attack as they all stress and immunity weakens.

07-31-2013, 06:12 PM	#1
4WheelVFR Wild'n since '87 Join Date: Oct 2008 First Name: Ray Location: Little Egypt Posts: 1,345 Trading: (36)	Re: The Official Asylum Reef Tank Thread Beautiful! Love the Clarion Angel. I also was able to get fish at wholesale, and it's amazing at how "cheap" you can get fish. $100 fish were $20 and $1000 fish were a couple hundred bucks or so.

08-01-2013, 05:32 AM	#2
Blueface Gramps 4x's Join Date: Oct 2008 First Name: Horatio Seymore Hiny Location: Boca Raton - North of La Habana Posts: 8,774 Trading: (8)	Re: The Official Asylum Reef Tank Thread Hopefully obvious by my prior post but thought I would add that 99% of fish are not killed by the hobbyist, they are killed by parasites and the bacterial infections they cause in a confined environment, where the parasites can readily reproduce. Most saltwater fish are very tolerant to immediate introduction into new water with no acclamation. I did this successfully all the time. Most are tolerant to fluctuating salinity. I kept some in .12 for months, as better for disease recovery since their body doesn't have to filter as much salt that penetrates due to weakened immunity and weakened slime coat, which is their primary salt filter/shield. Most don't know that salt water fish filter the salt to survive and as such, they are completely tolerant to a five minute or more fresh water dip which kills parasites. They can even handle fluctuations in temperature up to as much as 86-87 degrees or higher if air pumps added. They just can't handle a wave of zombies attacking them with nowhere to run or hide or new fish with zombies already attached waiting to pop out of their shells and attack as they all stress and immunity weakens. __________________ Little known fact: I am a former member of the Village People - The Indian Last edited by Blueface; 08-01-2013 at 05:42 AM.