🤔 Fake Coral Dilemma 🚨

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@Maximo21akuma 11 ай бұрын

If you go to Disney World and see their Salt Water Tanks you will find fake coral? So why does Disney do it? They have the man power and resources for the real stuff. We don’t know what the customers end game is. We don’t know the selection of fish they plan on putting. We don’t know if they want to put in the time and energy it takes to reach the goal of full grown healthy salt water tank. So I see no problem with fake coral. I think the true hobbyists who have a passion for salt water tanks enjoy the challenge of growing coral. But that’s not for everybody. There some people that simply wanna enjoy the beauty too and not go down the rabbit hole some of us go in regarding the hobby.

@matthewhayden6505 11 ай бұрын

Real corals is the way to go by far. I can see why some people might go for fake corals though. If you travel a lot a fake reef would be much easier and less stressful

@aquariumservicetech2891 11 ай бұрын

Just the hassle of cleaning the fake coral would take me out

@leebennett765 11 ай бұрын

Go with softies,easier for them to look after and add colour as well.

@aquariumservicetech2891 11 ай бұрын

True

@splix85 11 ай бұрын

I contemplated doing fake coral in a FOWLR tank with fish that would destroy real coral. I didn't want just plane live rock but the fish were SPS and LPS eaters.

@aquariumservicetech2891 11 ай бұрын

Make sense

@aserodriguez1425 10 ай бұрын

The problem with the fake coral is that people just plop them anywhere with no seconds thought. You spend tons of time on your real coral tanks and hardly any on fake but the one thing I have to say is you have to spend some time with the layout of your fakes, the colors you choose and which types of styles you get. It will never ever look as good but you can make it look tons of times better than this sad tank.

@Offshore1977 10 ай бұрын

Super happy I just found your channel. Cant wait to see your new videos as well as watch your previous ones. I love the fake coral tank. What I do is get 2 sets of fake coral, and with each cleaning I replace the second set while the other is cleaned and set aside to dry until the next cleaning. This makes it super easy to maintain clean including being able to vacuum the sand. Allows me to do a change up in the way the tank looks every cleaning. I don’t have time to be on top of dosing and lighting etc for real corals. This works for me and is what I prefer.

@aquariumservicetech2891 10 ай бұрын

Ty! hopefully you’ll like the content. Yeah real corals aren’t for everyone and I get it.

@robdavinroy1761 4 ай бұрын

Let me ask you. How often to you change them out? I’m really wanting to use them with high quality kessel leds to get that amazing shimmering effect. But I’m thinking I would constantly have to change the fake coral out under these conditions.

@Offshore1977 4 ай бұрын

@@robdavinroy1761 I do monthly water changes and that’s when I change them out.

@kreativ_corals 11 ай бұрын

Hmm interesting. I'm sitting here trying to think of reasons why someone would have fake corals given the maintenance and price and I'm not having any luck. Did the customer say why they want fake coral?

@aquariumservicetech2891 11 ай бұрын

They thought it would be less hassle.

@sandyloyst1811 11 ай бұрын

Hey Chris, live corals for your customer. Sell the fakes to Paul Cuffaro to fill out the front of his community pond, it's still empty. Everybody has the snowflakes eels, so when you were scooping him I was admiring Gio's two beauties in the next tank. Thanks for another great video.

@aquariumservicetech2891 11 ай бұрын

That’s actually a great idea thanks

@JohnSmith-qy2wm 11 ай бұрын

Real is the way to go. 👍

@aquariumservicetech2891 11 ай бұрын

It’s winning in the comments

@FishOutOfWaterToronto 11 ай бұрын

That eel is very cool. I went with my 2 engineer gobies to get the look of eels - without the teeth factor - though they will apparently eat anything they can fit in their mouths when they are older. Re: tank and fake coral - i don't mind the shapes i quite like the look and yes i was looking at fake corals on various places for a project. Basically take a large coral skeleton and put frags of stylos or cyphastrea or leptoseris on those as well and keep the shape and have some nice encrusting on them. TBH I initially thought the gsp was fake :/ I get my 24K gold lepto +6 other leptoseris colours next week... project encrustation will then occur!!! Keep up the fun videos.

@aquariumservicetech2891 11 ай бұрын

Thanks! My only problem with engineer gobies are they dig up all the dirt 😩.

@FishOutOfWaterToronto 11 ай бұрын

yup, looking at the piles in my sandbed now... i have to keep all coral placement about 2" up just in case. But i luvs them. @@aquariumservicetech2891

@enriquemendez2675 11 ай бұрын

It’s a matter of prospective. If you are fully engaged in your reef tank then real coral is ok.

@jasonblevins8280 10 ай бұрын

Personally I never have been a fan of fake corals... Team real here👍🏻👍🏻

@gardenislandbradda 3 ай бұрын

Sadly im om hawaii and we can't have live coral

@aquariumservicetech2891 2 ай бұрын

I’ve heard. Price to pay when living in paradise 😃

@gardenislandbradda 2 ай бұрын

@aquariumservicetech2891 we live in the middle of the pacific with Corals everywhere lol. But I get it. They don't want unwanted coral killing ours

@SaiyanSatsuki 11 ай бұрын

Sill fairly new to reefing myself, but always live I say! Makes the time and investment so much more rewarding,especially when you can see/ say you grew that.

@aquariumservicetech2891 11 ай бұрын

Great perspective

@SaiyanSatsuki 11 ай бұрын

Thank you! love the channel, and all the information. @@aquariumservicetech2891