Got a kick out of this add

[Boomboy]

was it your ad, sphelps??

[fishytime]

Im thinking about buying them.....how long do you have to cycle the tank before you add them? When things settle down I'll add a few of these http://calgary.kijiji.ca/c-pets-acce...AdIdZ158804944 (by drip of course)......hopefully I can talk him down a bit.

Cmon ....I posted the add here thinking that the majority of us peeps who strive to keep our saltwater tanks full of life, would find the idea of paying $500 bones for dead coral to put in a saltwater tank , funny.....was I wrong?....unfortunately people have varying degrees of senses of humor

[lastlight]

Doug my thoughts exactly. We're in the lounge to boot. I don't really care to debate about it and clearly you and I both got the same innocent enjoyment out of it without pondering the intense and complex issues behind a big pile of dead corals someone wants $500 for.

[Canuckgod420]

I thought the ad was very funny......
As far as the poor sap trying to recover some of his money.....give me a break.
By the way, J&L has huge dead colonies in for sale for less than 30 bucks each.

[Sebae again]

Me thinks the responses are funny,not the ad.

[Hairytank]

Well, I thought it was funny for the same reasons Doug.
Sphelps' comments are like a critic discussing a good braincandy action adventure movie and saying something like "that movie was garbage because it was sooo unrealistic..." Take Doug's post for what it was intended to be...a funny commentary from a certain point of view.

[sphelps]

Originally Posted by Hairytank

Sphelps' comments are like a critic discussing a good braincandy action adventure movie and saying something like "that movie was garbage because it was sooo unrealistic..."

Quite the opposite actually, I'm not criticizing anything unlike others here. I just didn't find it funny, what so ever and I have a hard tell seeing why someone would and take time out of or her day to share it with others. btw the guy has revised his add and added a website for reference, likely where he or she purchased them from. Also it's not me nor do I know who it is. What I do find amusing is how so many people just love to talk smack about others when they're not looking, for no good reason other than their own enjoyment.

Did anyone consider that maybe some people are willing to spend this kind of money on coral skeletons. Perhaps not everyone enjoys robbing the natural reefs, fyi "90 percent of some of the most popular coral species collected from reefs die before or soon after they reach the aquarium owner". But that's OK, why buy dead when you can buy live for the same price apparently, haha too funny

[Samw]

When I first got into marines 25 years ago, I bought a large dead coral for around $75 as the main center piece in my fish only tank. It was one of the smaller ones in the store even. I wanted to buy the bigger $100 one but I just didn't have enough money. I still have that coral. It is now sitting on the top of my living room shelf as room decoration.