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10-20-2003, 04:26 PM
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Blacktip Shark
Join Date: Aug 2003
Location: Middleburg, VA
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Anybody got the "soft" bug? Any known cures?
Hey everyone! I was just noticing that a lot of reef tanks seem to be sps dominated. I love sps, especially the purple acropora! Just beautiful! I've begun to really like soft corals though. I love the motion of swaying colt coral and the beautiful pumping xenia(I've heard it can be a weed). I also love the yellow leather and others! Any body else love soft corals, even if they aren't as great an acomplisment to keep as sps? Am I alone! 
And I also love to keep clams, I haven't heard of many hobbyists keeping soft coral tanks and clams, is this just because their water parameters aren't as close as sps and clams? Is there a problem with this concept? Anybody feel the same way?
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10-20-2003, 04:53 PM
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Jawfish Junky
Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: Minneapolis
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Hell Yeah!
Yeah I love softies. SPS are grear and everything but they are just not viable for everyone. I could only spend $200 on my lighting and couldn't even think of a CA reactor so I went with softies and LPS'.
I think shrooms and rics are just gorgeous. SPS are pretty, but I mean come on they are basically Rock Candy! 
Long Live the Softies!
MPLS_Gazer
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10-20-2003, 04:55 PM
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Crazed Fish Whisperer
Join Date: Jul 2002
Location: Kansas City, MO
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I love my softies..yes, there are some great colors in the acros, but I love the motion. Esp star polyp matts, my pipeorgan coral is beautiful, my pom-pom xenia is great to watch, my toadstool as it sways, the anthellia, the...... Yep, I love softies.
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10-20-2003, 05:10 PM
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Banggai Mommy
Join Date: Jan 2002
Location: Orlando, FL
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I also simply adore softies... the way they sway in the current, the way they are tempermental - the vast changes in their expansion...
Yes, I admit it. I'm a softie junkie.
I run 3 x 250W MH on my softie reef. The growth is absolutely amazing - and I already need to refrag my "monster" toadstool, because he's squashing into the glass.
I also keep clams, which is a perk to having the MH. I figure that you're right - there aren't many softie-clam tanks out there. But I have one of them. 
(For the record, I have a large collection of LPS in there too, and a single montipora that was a gift from a friend. It just won't die and is growing like a weed, so I left it in there.)
We will probably set up an SPS reef one day. One of the reasons you don't see many mixed tanks is that SPS don't have near the ammo as softies or LPS do, and they tend to lose turf battles. And then you're out a chunk of change...
Danielle
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10-20-2003, 05:11 PM
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Banggai Mommy
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Oh, and there is no cure... except to obtain and grow the single BIGGEST toadstool in the WORLD!
BRRAAAAHHHAHAHAHAAA!
oh, no, wait. That's the way the madness spreads!!
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10-20-2003, 05:16 PM
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Blacktip Shark
Join Date: Aug 2003
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You know Danielle, Someone asked me if reefing was a minor obsession, I told them no. After a few seconds I turned around and said, "IT's a MAJOR obsession!" I feel what your going through, although the toadstool thing is a bit... It's okay, we'll except your madness! 
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Last edited by Reefdude5; 10-20-2003 at 05:52 PM.
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10-20-2003, 05:46 PM
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Crazed Fish Whisperer
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Hmm..don't you mean Mrs. Smith?  heh heh
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10-20-2003, 05:52 PM
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Blacktip Shark
Join Date: Aug 2003
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What do you mean
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Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want
He who fears the thorn, should never crave the rose.
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Forecast for tonight: dark, continued dark overnight, widely scattered light by morning
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10-20-2003, 10:21 PM
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Little Fishy
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: columbia, mo
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i agree with all the previous posts, except that my reefing habit is only a minor obsession, and i also like the swaying and the motion of soft corals. right now, i have a monstrously large tree coral and it is just mesmerizing to sit and watch sway back in forth in the currents. i love my two star polyp mats and i really love the bright contrasting colors of zoanthids.
when the new lights come in, i'd like to try putting a coupla acropora or monti frags up along the tops of the rock but i plan to keep my tank daminated by soft corals.
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10-21-2003, 07:54 AM
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Crazed Fish Whisperer
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Quote:
Originally posted by Reefdude5
What do you mean
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oh sure..now my post looks totally out of place. heh heh
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10-21-2003, 01:11 PM
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Wants a Howitzer
Join Date: Dec 2002
Location: Maine
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i am very content in the relative mediocrity of softies and other smooshy things....
so is my checkbook and hubby |
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10-21-2003, 02:00 PM
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Shark
Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: Woodstock GA
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i love my softies too. great for my nano and one day when i upgrade to a bigger tank softies and clams.
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10-21-2003, 03:17 PM
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Wants a Howitzer
Join Date: Dec 2002
Location: Maine
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......mmm......clams........
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30 gallon (long)
one 7" Toadfish named Todd (Batrachomoeus trispinosus)- Tuxedo urchin eater
Assorted mushrooms, zoanthids, ricordea, leathers, a candy and brains...
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10-21-2003, 04:05 PM
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Little Fishy
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: columbia, mo
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hey, reefdude-
weren't you looking for a cure for the softies? try viagara.  |
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10-21-2003, 05:57 PM
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Wants a Howitzer
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oh!
my virgin ears...erm....eyes.... *pretends to recoil in horror*
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30 gallon (long)
one 7" Toadfish named Todd (Batrachomoeus trispinosus)- Tuxedo urchin eater
Assorted mushrooms, zoanthids, ricordea, leathers, a candy and brains...
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