water parameters

jellybean · 01/14/2006, 06:11 PM

Dear sir, as a new person to marine aquariums ,I have been reading as much as I can on the subject, and as a result have purchased two of your books , which advocate 35ppt salinity, and an average temperature of 82F. If I'm reading correctly. my problem is that here in the U.K. no fish store that I have visited keeps their fish or inverts at these values, the ones that I've visited so far have all bar one kept their stock at 1.022sg and 25C and seem incredulous when I tell them about what you recommend even though they all stock your book for sale! One gave the reason that his importer kept their stok at these values and they saw no reason to stress the livestock anymore. My problem is, having found that no shop over here stocks at the recommended values should I strive to keep your parameters or stick with what the creatures have got used to at the lfs? ( I'm in the process of building a 100l reef with sump. It's going all very slowly and carefully.)

Carl_in_Florida · 01/14/2006, 07:46 PM

To Reef Central

Not sure you are gonna get a response in this forum

jellybean · 01/15/2006, 03:20 PM

Hi thanks for the reply. I thought this forum was by Ron Shimek. As the title would suggest, any Ideas where I might get a reply?

01/14/2006, 06:11 PM	#1
jellybean Registered Member Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: West Sussex U.K. Posts: 2	water parameters Dear sir, as a new person to marine aquariums ,I have been reading as much as I can on the subject, and as a result have purchased two of your books , which advocate 35ppt salinity, and an average temperature of 82F. If I'm reading correctly. my problem is that here in the U.K. no fish store that I have visited keeps their fish or inverts at these values, the ones that I've visited so far have all bar one kept their stock at 1.022sg and 25C and seem incredulous when I tell them about what you recommend even though they all stock your book for sale! One gave the reason that his importer kept their stok at these values and they saw no reason to stress the livestock anymore. My problem is, having found that no shop over here stocks at the recommended values should I strive to keep your parameters or stick with what the creatures have got used to at the lfs? ( I'm in the process of building a 100l reef with sump. It's going all very slowly and carefully.)

01/14/2006, 07:46 PM	#2
Carl_in_Florida Registered Member Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: Delray Beach, Fl Posts: 2,348	*To Reef Central* Not sure you are gonna get a response in this forum __________________ Stupid should be painful

01/15/2006, 03:20 PM	#3
jellybean Registered Member Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: West Sussex U.K. Posts: 2	Hi thanks for the reply. I thought this forum was by Ron Shimek. As the title would suggest, any Ideas where I might get a reply?