yaoming713 said:
And i assume you never bought anything on impulse?
Heck no!! Are you kidding me?? Impulse buys can be a death sentence to a marine tank, especially if the critter bought isn't reseached FIRST. Sorry to sound so harsh, but situations like this disappoint me. You, along with other hobbyists, go out and buy an animal they aren't sure they can care for, and then next thing you know it is dead, or has managed to kill something else in your tank. You might as well buy a bunch of corals and stick a wild angel in there just because it looks pretty. Then when you come home to see the angel has made a lunch of your corals, you can't get upset because impulse buys are okay. Heck, you don't even know what it eats?? It could be a predator, like cone snails, where it will eventually eat your fish or snails. Or if it starves, will it contaminate your tank like some cucumbers are know to do?? There are too many "what ifs" that should have stopped you from buying this. You have to remember, that in this hobby, many people mix species from different oceans. One animal that may fair well in the pacific and in your tank may meets its demise when an animal from the atlantic or carribean is introduced. You have to keep in mind that these animals have evolved without contact to other animlas from other oceans, so when they encounter something new, sometimes bad things happen. You have just put your tank and the new animal's lives at stake because you didn't know what you bought. The same rule applies to just putting things from the coast that you have no clue will survive into your tank.
I was just commenting on the LFS people in general.