Like many people here, I've been keeping marine tanks for many years. Talking to a friend/owner of a LFS, we reminisced about just how different some aspects of this hobby used to be (10-15 years ago)… What are some of the big changes you've seen around the hobby over the course of many years? Ill start:
When building a new reef tank (after a several year saltwater break), I was shocked to see how expensive fish had become! I remember in the early 2000s when you could buy Angelfish/Tangs/Anthias for half (or less) than what they cost now! As little as 5-6 years ago, you could get Blotchy Anthias for like $99! I remember buying a Copperband butterfly for $30 and Full size Lions were like $20-30 all day!
Or live rock! Remember -real- live rock!?!?!