Joey DIY Reefapolooza Thoughts

[RamsReef]

"The thing about salt water aquariums the more and more you kinda look into them, and see how these are successfully run, is the simplicity of all the equipment; and we've got a nice light, of course, and then the overflow system goes down to the sump here, I assume. You know, very basic, nothing fancy here, this looks like something I would have definitely put together. That looks maybe 20 gallon sump, filter sock, and of course, this is just a temporary system. But, to be honest with you a lot of aquariums these days are being set up simplistically, and not many of them have a massive amount of equipment on them. which is very interesting to me."




I love Joey, he is a genuine nice guy and I think great for the hobby. He is also a decent source for knowledge on many freshwater fish and setups.

However, I find his awareness to salt water esp reef a little on the naive side. I say this from my own experience coming from fresh water (when I was a teen) to reef (now that I'm an adult). When I had fresh all I had to do was take water out, replace filter, poor water in, if that.

I also say this just looking at new hobbyists starting a reef aquarium and nuking everything constantly or getting massive outbreaks of whatever, even the basic filling the tank with a good source of fresh salt water is above what it takes to run a whole fresh water aquarium.

What do you guys think?

 

[Reefrookie220]

This guy.....ugh.

I can regurgitate the top results from Google as good as the next guy, or take credit for something someone else built then deny the hell out of it. But at the end of the day, I wouldn't.

9 times of 10, you can rely on him... to show you how NOT to do something