What is one thing in the hobby that you wished existed, but doesn't?

[Troylee]

Easy for YOU to do. Lol. I'm not that talented.

I’m sure you can order one off Etsy or something if you wanted. They should be fairly cheap.

 

[Doctorgori]

a automatic phosphate/nitrate checker with automatic dosing

 

[Dburr1014]

An elixer that only kills aptaisia and nothing else.

 

[Dburr1014]

miniature sharks

They have columbian sharks. Can go in full salt.

 

[Jekyl]

I wish there were something readily accessible that eats GSP.

 

[DRCOOK97]

Single dose solution that takes care of all perimeters. Example automatically tops off PH, CA, ALK, trace etc. You get the idea.

 

[Katrina71]

I’m sure you can order one off Etsy or something if you wanted. They should be fairly cheap.

Very expensive.

 

[kevgib67]

How about an online forum where people from all over the world can get together and share their experiences and help others solve problems that are occurring, oh wait

 

[GuppyHJD]

Electronic probes for ALK, Calc, Mag, Phos and Nitrates

 

[Kellie in CA]

#1 A quick, effective cure for dinos
#2 Tank dolphins!

 

[landlubber]

I can't even dream the money that would be made from an over the counter doseable solution for aiptasia.
second to that would be a device that painlessly and non-destructively "inspired" anemones to release from liverock.

 

[Aiptaisia anemone]

Small version of nautilus that can be kept on a regular aquarium. Equipment wise, I would like a chillers the size of an aquarium heater. Realistically though I would like an aquarium bowl made with starphire glass and a built in filtration.

 

[Patx]

I don't know if this has already been named but this thing would really be my only wish.

 

[CKW]

A good portable sand filter

 

[Joekovar]

Seawater on tap. The same way you get potable or reclaimed water.

 

[dakoop]

Fish that are sickness proof

 

[Aiptaisia anemone]

Seawater on tap. The same way you get potable or reclaimed water.

Might aswell wish all marine animals and plants can thrive on freshwater wouldnt that be better.

 

[crahan]

Just to really set off the group…. GMO coral and fish. They genetically alter plants to resist this or that. Heck, they make RoundUp resistant corn so farmers can spray the whole field… weeds gone, corn fine. Cotton now has pesticide in their DNA so when the boll weevil takes a bite it dies.

- ick resistant fish
- modified acros that kill AEF when they take a bite.
- genetically altered bacteria (like BT) that only attacks individual species of pests like aptasia, or bubble algae, or planaria or whatever other undesirables are in the tank.

While they are at it…. Pods that reproduce exponentially faster so we can keep dragonets in a nano.

Since we aren’t typically eating what is in our reef tanks the GMO label should be less objectionable.

 

[CMMorgan]

How about we just say, Google (Alexa) clean my tank and a little robot automatically cleans the glass, siphons the sand, changes the filtration and performs a water change?

.... oh, and talking fish.

 

[DIYreefer]

A tank that perfectly mimics a real location in lighting and flow and will change based on what is going on in that area.

I've thought about this a lot and am surprised that none of the bigger companies have done this. Seems like all it would take is a PAR meter (and maybe a camera?) connected to the internet in various locations (Fiji, Indo, GBR, etc) that log readings throughout each day. Then those readings could be downloaded to the end users' lights, and they could adjust the percentage of light to their tank accordingly. 100% would be peak daylight, obviously, but you could have it to where the end user could set their max output to only 50% or whatever and the rest of the day would ramp up and down from there based upon the data collected for that day.

I hope that makes sense. I've had a lot going on recently and my brain is pretty frazzled. Lol.