Heck I feel bad if I happen to loose a mushroom that only costs me $5
bucks here. I feel bad if I loose 10 cent feeder gold fish if there
was something I could have done to prevent it.....Fish do fine at
lower SG, but corals do best at the opposite range of the scale, which
unfortunately for fish makes life a bit more difficult, but still
doable. I want to know exactly what my sg, and temp are. Not too
worried about nitrite and ammonia with all the live rock I have and
being able to account for all inhabitants, and its neen a long long
time since I really have done any tests of ammonia, nitrite and
nitrate and PH. Other than looking at my temp reading, and doing a
calcium / alk test once or twice a month the only other thing I do is
test Sg once every two weeks. I keep my tanks dead on the money at the
proper levels with a ATO, so my SG stays extremely even.......I just l
ike to verify it. I say my tanks for the most part are pretty well
maintenance free for 2 weeks at a time sometimes a week or so more,
and I only feed every other day. My outlook is to maintain them allow
some growth but not allow them to get fat and lazy.......but just a
tad little bit hungry.

As long as my pulsing Zenia is doing its pulsing I know my parameters
are fine......

On Sat, 10 Jun 2006 22:03:06 GMT, Cindy wrote:
TheRock wrote:
Oh dear...We are still talking about fish/corals right ?
Maybe I'll worry more when I'm paying more than $20 for an item.
Until then I'll make sure all that extra salt goes to my Margaritas.

Well, I'M talking about a little world in a glass box in my house that
I'm responsible for. But maybe I AM a bit anal. (And tequila makes
me throw up.) LOL