symon
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Originally Posted by Kilhullen
You know, I think there are going to be quite a few people here who may consider this option, as I have already seen one, and I am one more. I am going to ignore you and all your questions.
You say we are immature? Which I can only assume because what you wrote was not a proper sentence or spelling.
The people on this board are caring. They care about the welfare of your fish, as well as your frustration and understanding of keeping a SW tank. The immaturity comes in when someone asks a question, gets many, many responses, then gets incensed when those responses don't jive with what they are doing, so they not only attack the people giving the response, but they start a new thread trying to find more people who will think the way they do, and attack them there too.
It is not immature to care, educate, protect, and help.
I think you know in your heart what you are doing is cruel. I think you know in your mind that what has been offered to you is true, and you are just impatient and childish, and I don't have time for people like that.
Those poor little damsel and clownfish can't fix their water or go somewhere where it isn't polluted. You have doomed them to misery. What difference does it make to you to wait a few weeks to give the fish a proper home, with the proper balance, with the proper care. None. In the span of your life, having a clownfish (or damsel for that matter) in your tank, this week, or this time next month is nothing. In the fish's life it is everything. You have sentenced him to a death chamber. You admit you didn't even know how to feed the poor thing properly.
As I said earlier the people who sucessfully keep reef tanks in a tank that size are the ones who are patient, diligent, careful, and respectful. The ones who are pushy, impatient, and lack respect for the balance they need to attain, fail, or struggle miserably.
I sure wish I had your money to waste and squander, but even if I did - I would still be taking the same time I already am. It would just give me more money to buy some really cool stuff when the time is right.
As if you were going to listen to me (which I know you are not - you have proven that fact), the overfeeding would take a day or two to turn to ammonia, then to trite, then to trate. The bacteria is not going to fix your problem, and you are starting down a slippery slope or over dosing your tank everytime you see one little blip on your testing kit. It doesn't immediately go to trite. But that is what you get for pushing the chemestry and the balance outside of the respectable process and being impatient. You will never have a good balance in your tank at this rate.
One of the proper ways to cycle and stock a tank would be:
LS / LR
cycle fully until ammonia and trites are 0
Wait some time to make sure it has fully cycled while ghostfeeding
CUC
Wait for the ammonia and trites to go to 0
1 (count them 1) fish
Wait
1 (count them 1) fish
and on...
That would be a responsible method too. Eventually you would have your clown, and you wouldn't have to have bought any fish you don't want. All of them would be healthy. All of them would be happy. And you could have a gorgeous tank. Instead you are going to end up with a tank that is over treated, over medicated, and if you were not patient enough to allow the cycle to happen properly, I dare to say you won't be patient enough to do all the waterchanges correctly that a reef in that size tank will require.
There is one more problem I will voice out of the many, many, MANY I have with your process and theories on how to keep a tank. Why would you buy a fish you don't intend to keep, and just what is it you are going to do to it when you are finished with it. Return it to the petstore so they can further torture the poor thing? Flush it? Throw it away? Very irresponsible and immature! I am cycling with a raw shrimp in my tank, I spent 27 cents. How much did you spend on all your fish, your bacteria, and frustration? Maybe you should have listened.
I shall end my rant, as I am sure you are not listening to reason anyway, and I am only preaching to the choir.
Let us all have a moment of silence for the fish and the future fish in Razor Vampire's tank
OUCH well put painfull reality!
(bows head in silence!)
