Did you buy the octopus? What species are they?I didn't buy them. My octopus hatched them out
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Did you buy the octopus? What species are they?I didn't buy them. My octopus hatched them out
True, I dont think we will ever go back but I also dont see them going away, just my opinion.I have fell back on old trends that I am comfortable with, like vodka dosing to get control my nitrates. I don't view that as the hobby as a whole coming full circle. I can't see the hobby ever going back to MHs, or back to 10k spectrum, blue spectrum lighting brings out colors in corals that other spectrums can't. And it's not just that the blue light fluoresces certain colors, it actually pulls them out. I think the only way we move away from the windex look is when technology shows us a better way.
while technology can be a good thing, i think the attitude of alot of people is more focused on wanting to buy and show off their equipment rather than their tank.
I don't know if a "dirty tank" is a good idea. I the wild a reef is low in nutrients. All nutrients are consumed keeping it nutrient poor.All this talk about bare bottoms too... It's just more misunderstanding or forgetting our past in reefkeeping - more sterile talk.
Stirring a sandbed at night is one of the best, and most important, ways to feed corals with lagoon quality detritus.
History tells us we need to go back to dirty tanks. Some of us will kick and scream along the way with their misguided preference for sterility and control, rather than accepting the reef tank as the dirty and uncontrollable microcosm it wishes to be.
I don't know if a "dirty tank" is a good idea. I the wild a reef is low in nutrients. All nutrients are consumed keeping it nutrient poor.
If they get to dirty they die. The reefs I have been on had crystal clear water.Dissolved nutrients, and readily available, decomposing nutrients, are two different things.
Reefs are highly dirty places, completely swamped with detritus, blowing about and clouding the water - coral food.
We can argue about the different reefs all day man... detritus is coral food and present everywhere - the key to a diverse diet and growth.If they get to dirty they die. The reefs I have been on had crystal clear water.
That was a very long time ago. I don't remember what species she was but she was very cool. They die after giving birth.Did you buy the octopus? What species are they?
I agree with both on the economy.I've been in the hobby since 1991. I don't consider myself to be pigeon holed as "old school" or "new school" or "middle school" for that matter. I do what works for me, and many of the newer products from lights to automation work very well for me. I do not give any credit to anyone's opinion unless I see their tank either through pictures in a build thread, or in person, which is obviously better. If someone has a new tank with tiny frags and is regurgitating things he/she read on Facebook from one of the fly by night chop shops, then I will not consider their opinion useful to me. All of that being said, I agree with JDA that we are about to see a collapse in our economy on a level rarely seen, and that hobbies such as ours which are only sustainable by hobbyists with disposable income are also going to financially collapse and many will sell their tanks and get out. Unfortunately most small companies that make products for our niche hobby probably won't survive such a recession/depression, and it may well set things back in terms of developing new technology. I could be wrong though. Anyway Happy Thanksgiving everyone!
I don't get why so many people still have new tanks and can't get good rock. What happened to the rock you bought 10 years ago? You set up a tank and it matures along with you. What happened to all the tanks that were started 5, 10, or 20 years ago when live rock was cheap and plentiful? The rock doesn't evaporate.In truth I'd like to take a bit of a break from reef keeping but I haven't because it's impossible to buy decent, or even poor, live rock anymore and a sterile tank just isn't for me. I used to run a shop and bring fresh chunks of uncured liverock home for biodiversity.