Whats your reefing hot topic?

[Bryce_Thomas]

I have two, ill go first.
1. Euphyllia are pretty, but overrated
2. 'Hitchhiker' is a negative term that encapsulates a wide variety of living things that are neutral or positive to a marine environment, few hitchhikers are actually bad
(A "hot topic" is typically a subject that sparks strong opinions, debates, or controversy, with people having differing viewpoints)

 

[JumboShrimp]

Tangs, activated carbon, and the possible connection to HLLE.

 

[TrampledByEwoks]

Lyretail Anthias look like goldfish.

Aquascapes made entirely of flat shelf rock don’t look natural or very good until massive coral growth rounds things out.

Top end brand pricing is outrageous and frequently the performance increase does not match the price increase over mid tier options. $500 for a return pump?! $1k for a radion that most tank sizes require two of?!

 

[Bryce_Thomas]

Top end brand pricing is outrageous and frequently the performance increase does not match the price increase over mid tier options. $500 for a return pump?! $1k for a radion that most tank sizes require two of?!

Welcome to marketing at its finest

 

[FrugalReeferJon]

The correlation between high nutrients and algae. I’ve seen a lot of nice looking reefs running high nutrients for this to not necessarily be true.

Cheap LEDs can’t grow corals. There are awesome looking tanks out there running Chinese black boxes and brands like Nicrew which say otherwise.

It’s ok to pop bubble algae and it always will be.

There are more floating around in my head but right now they’re not coming to mind but I’m sure they will later.

 

[Hats_]

Feeding garlic or feeding more is not going to solve your ich outbreak.

There is no perfect ratio between nitrate and phosphate only between algae and what eats it.

Taking a before and after pic of your tank empty and after you filled every square inch with tiny frags doesn't show reefing prowess.

Waterchanges don't supplement anything in a reef tank

 

[brandon429]

My current thing is calling out businesses and podcasters who refuse to discuss red sea seam breaks because they make money selling red sea tanks by ad link revenue.


A conflict of interest that makes someone lie to all their friends by omission to keep getting paid: it's a good soapbox to get up on.

Formal article writers won't touch it, podcasters who cover controversial reefing topics won't touch it, only forum posters know red sea tanks are likely to leak if you bought from the wrong production lot.

It's funny to watch such a known ground swell be totally ignored by those claimed to bravely take on all matters reefing

:) = milque toast roast time.

 

[LovinlifeinGuam]

I insist that real, live ocean rock is "The Real Deal". I'm not joking about that...I'd definitely consider live ocean rock vs. Dry rock to be a hot topic for debating in the hobby.

 

[Hats_]

My current thing is calling out businesses and podcasters who refuse to discuss red sea seam breaks because they make money selling red sea tanks by ad link revenue.


A conflict of interest that makes someone lie to all their friends by omission to keep getting paid: it's a good soapbox to get up on.

Formal article writers won't touch it, podcasters who cover controversial reefing topics won't touch it, only forum posters know red sea tanks are likely to leak if you bought from the wrong production lot.

It's funny to watch such a known ground swell be totally ignored by those claimed to bravely take on all matters reefing

:) = milque toast roast time.

the seam failures always interested me on here. I have been reefing for 6 years and I am based in the Netherlands. We also have our own reefing forum that I am active on and in those 6 years I have seen maybe a handful of seam failures from redsea tanks over here. most of which turned out to be the cause of poorly levelled cabinets. In all of those cases redsea generously replaced the tanks and in one case the guy got an upgrade and got a big discount on any redsea hardware that he wanted from redsea.

So strange that it is so much different across the pond...

 

[brandon429]

Yes we get this over here:

3 bad brand new tanks in a row.

I estimate anyone that gives five minutes to a Google search can find 100 break examples last two years, and that's just in the states.

the effort might even take 30 seconds to verify

Thinking it's just the stands means no searching has been done to expand perspective

 

[Hats_]

Yes we get this over here:

3 bad brand new tanks in a row.

I estimate anyone that gives five minutes to a Google search can find 100 break examples last two years, and that's just in the states.

the effort might even take 30 seconds to verify
Significant?

im not debating you that its not happening in the states lol. I just think its crazy that it happens so much over there and so little over here. supposed to be the same company right?

 

[brandon429]

Less people reefing there to compare notes takes longer to reveal patterns. No harm at all/ don't want to overtake here this is just a pressing event i think casters should see if listeners want to discuss

The specific thing they could do is warn anyone with a 2019~ era model they're directly in risk. Older models from ten years ago: no such pattern.

 

[Paul B]

My fish seem to be immune to all communicable diseases and have been for about 45 years. That usually starts an argument. :anguished-face:

 

[scotty333]

ph is underrated and should be addressed if low

 

[Randy Holmes-Farley Verified Community Expert]

Chasing numbers. Always written as if it were self evidently a mistake.

As a concept it is not inherently wrong, and most folks writing it do it as well, but just disagree with others on which parameters are worthy of chasing.

The issue is choosing the method of the chase and target ranges. :)

 

[Cool tangs]

Quarantine! UV is all you need will always gets some sparks flying ;)

 

[brandon429]

Randy that also applies to troubleshooting threads, like the ones in the Chem forum where any parameter stated outside of ammonia read from API is accepted as fact. Includes posts about nitrate, phosphate, none of those are ever challenged and the posters are told how to get better readings



When reefers report a parameter value they measured in work threads, it's accepted as totally accurate and recommendations for actions are made, that's chasing numbers too

Every once in a while when someone posts about the big disparity between two given test kit brands i recall those threads where for decades all measures were accepted as fact, it still happens today. Reefers aren't giving accurate diagnostic info in my opinion, because of hobby test kit issues and this explains to me why for six hundred pages this team cannot produce dinos fixes, the tanks get worse.

https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/dinoflagellates-–-are-you-tired-of-battling-altogether.293318/

They're telling people what to do about nitrate and phosphate with low ability to test accurately for either. End result: everyone's tank becomes a gha farm for eight months. There's no way that thread deserves to be stickied, it's ruining people's tanks mostly.

If they had to go on results, that wouldn't be a sticky.

 

[Hats_]

got another one related to that, one measurement is no measurement. technically we should run our tests at least twice, especially if its out of the ordinary

 

[MagicPenny]

The need to identify and probably kill anything that pops up in your tank that you don't recognize or understand the look of.

 

[Anna K]

Light parameters :face-with-spiral-eyes: