Nothing to do with popularity. It's just the Troll type of posting from so many that is obvious. Again, you can usually get that from the message count to reaction score.
Actually great point!
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Nothing to do with popularity. It's just the Troll type of posting from so many that is obvious. Again, you can usually get that from the message count to reaction score.
I know your post wasn’t a dig at him, so this isn’t a refute, but just saying @JCOLE is one of those people who you can look at their tank and at least know he’s not full of hot air. Great looking tank.Popularity? Cool kids club? Heavy post count via lounge threads...
This isn't related to you but I am more of a show me your display and length of time sort of person now. Too much bias in this hobby as you can see in this very thread...
Hope you are doing well!
I know your post wasn’t a dig at him, so this isn’t a refute, but just saying @JCOLE is one of those people who you can look at their tank and at least know he’s not full of hot air. Great looking tank.
But I agree. If someone can’t produce some degree of proof that they have pulled off a good degree of success in growing coral, I can’t help but not take their posts seriously. If that means people are bored or uninspired with my own work, so be it. I do try to stay within my success levels in experience when giving advice. That being said. I’ve had a bear of a time getting my new tank to pick up where my last one left off. It’s been quite frustrating! Maybe I should pick up that cebu sun that is available locally. I kid I kid.
Oh - no, no dig at him at all. Please accept my apologies if it seemed like that.
@JCOLE apologies to you. That was me just speaking out loud. Sorry.
I know your post wasn’t a dig at him, so this isn’t a refute, but just saying @JCOLE is one of those people who you can look at their tank and at least know he’s not full of hot air. Great looking tank.
But I agree. If someone can’t produce some degree of proof that they have pulled off a good degree of success in growing coral, I can’t help but not take their posts seriously. If that means people are bored or uninspired with my own work, so be it. I do try to stay within my success levels in experience when giving advice. That being said. I’ve had a bear of a time getting my new tank to pick up where my last one left off. It’s been quite frustrating! Maybe I should pick up that cebu sun that is available locally. I kid I kid.
Oh - no, no dig at him at all. Please accept my apologies if it seemed like that.
@JCOLE apologies to you. That was me just speaking out loud. Sorry.
No. MH is the king of shimmer IMO! It's just that we really don't need any "data" to approve it. So obvious!You are arguing that mh are not superior in shimmer? Only led that's come close to matching shimmer it the kessil and it would take multiple of them over the same display that a single mh with reflector will to produce the same shimmer.
Yes, they use MH for growth!As for growth I posted multiple videos from multiple farmers explaining why they use mh for growth. Google works, youtube search works. I know you have seen those vids I posted already so posting them again is a waste of my time and energy.
I have never seen a single hobbyist reef that is an "accurate depiction of a coral reef", tbh. Reefing is a hobby and everyone does it differently. I am not a fan of the windex look but many are. I only take issue when people suggest that white lite is actively harmful (yes I see this on facebook often).Yep. This whole thing with LEDs has become more of an arcade experience than recreating an accurate depiction of a coral reef.
Crit, grab the laser tag guns!
I only take issue when people suggest that white lite is actively harmful (yes I see this on facebook often).
No reef aquarium is going to be 100% accurate, but there are certainly those that look more accurate than others.I have never seen a single hobbyist reef that is an "accurate depiction of a coral reef", tbh. Reefing is a hobby and everyone does it differently. I am not a fan of the windex look but many are. I only take issue when people suggest that white lite is actively harmful (yes I see this on facebook often).
Really? Did they say which source is the culprit?I only take issue when people suggest that white lite is actively harmful (yes I see this on facebook often).
Depends on how you describe accurate. Lighting? Depth? Corals? Fish?No reef aquarium is going to be 100% accurate, but there are certainly those that look more accurate than others.
Hmm - I like the "enjoyable" part of accuracy perhaps...could we add that one to the list?Depends on how you describe accurate. Lighting? Depth? Corals? Fish?
My wrasse, unfortunately, keeps tiny mollusks and crustaceans in check.Hmm - I like the "enjoyable" part of accuracy perhaps...could we add that one to the list?
I like the fact that I don't have to restock my dwarf blue-leg hermits, money cowries, astrea snails, peppermint shrimp, and others - they quite happily reproduce on their own in aquarium. I haven't had a detectable spawning of coral, unless a pocillopora spp. growing spontaneously in a couple locations on the corner overflows counts. If I was shooting for "accuracy" I'd probably end up focusing on a mono-specific aquarium, as most of the coral I have in this reef could/would have a rather large footprint in the wild, and would easily occupy the 3X6 footprint of the 300.
Cheers,
Ray
Yes, sometimes I imagine what it’d be like to turn the Georgia Aquariums large display into a coral reef with varying depths, microbiomes of coral, massive wave machines, probly natural sunlight, etc…My wrasse, unfortunately, keeps tiny mollusks and crustaceans in check.
In a perfect world, "accurate" to me would be to have a HUGE tank to hold an actual simulated Red Sea reef--corals, shoaling fish and all.
No, just something I picked up from being in reefing groups. Those are really a mess LOL even more than any other forum. Lots of the blind leading the blind. It's almost entirely newbies and most of the "experts" are really still newbies themselves.Really? Did they say which source is the culprit?
I think Steve Weast’s tank is pretty close to natural. But again, it’s subjective.
I think we might disagree what accurate means here. Obviously our tanks are not real reefs nor do we really shoot for a real reef. All the dead coral in between the live ones, the predators, the sandstorms and plankton blooms, the sand littered with frags from previous hurricanes, etc. are things we avoid in our tanks. Steve Weast was just on reef therapy where he described his aquariums as "an artistic depiction of nature" and that is also what I seek. There is a difference between an artistic depiction of nature (not "accurate" really) and trying to actually replicate nature.No reef aquarium is going to be 100% accurate, but there are certainly those that look more accurate than others.