Do we really know what we are doing?
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robsw
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im not exactly sure if we really know what we are doing, but i know that most people in this hobby including myself really care about our tanks, even if iit is becuase we spend so much money on them.
on the other hand there are people like my boss who takes what they learn and see happen in their mini reef and try to help the world out.
my boss, Alan Lowe, has the patent for restocking reefs with propagated coral from the wild. In the year 2000, he set up a large operation on the island of Dominica. He had a 50f long x 30 ft wide x 12 ft deep tank which he connected directly to the ocean. He helped REEFBALL design their first reef ball, and actually stocked reefs with coral that he propagated in his tank. In total he took 11,000 of his coral frags in one year and made an artificial reef for the island of Dominica. Now, how long would this take in nature.
Unfortunately, his company suffered a hostile takeover from his investors after they recognized the potential, but they soon went outa business because he was the only person who knew how to make his corals grow so fast.
Take the time and Search his name on the internet, and youll see that sometimes even people who start out small, but take the time to understand what they are doing, can actually help the entire world.
This to me makes it all worth it.
on the other hand there are people like my boss who takes what they learn and see happen in their mini reef and try to help the world out.
my boss, Alan Lowe, has the patent for restocking reefs with propagated coral from the wild. In the year 2000, he set up a large operation on the island of Dominica. He had a 50f long x 30 ft wide x 12 ft deep tank which he connected directly to the ocean. He helped REEFBALL design their first reef ball, and actually stocked reefs with coral that he propagated in his tank. In total he took 11,000 of his coral frags in one year and made an artificial reef for the island of Dominica. Now, how long would this take in nature.
Unfortunately, his company suffered a hostile takeover from his investors after they recognized the potential, but they soon went outa business because he was the only person who knew how to make his corals grow so fast.
Take the time and Search his name on the internet, and youll see that sometimes even people who start out small, but take the time to understand what they are doing, can actually help the entire world.
This to me makes it all worth it.
ninjamini
Active Member
Originally Posted by RobSW
im not exactly ...but i know that most people in this hobby including myself really care about our tanks...
I have to respectfully disagree. Think about it. For each person that comes here to learn about keeping these critters there are hundreds that just go to the store on a whim and buy a tank and some filter and some rock and fish because thats what the LFS guy told them to do. He cycles the tank with that "nemo" and "dori" not knowing why his $20 fish died. So he gets an anemone to keep his clown happy and that lives for 4 months. Only to get another and another.
Or the guy who gets the linka stars over and over again and cant figure out where they go.
Or the guy that gets that puffer to play with his gobys.
There are all types and to say that most people care is silly. Most people dont take the time to really learn about this hobby. They just want to get some fish. Hell I was almost one of them until I saw a really nice reef in a LFS and decided I had to learn how to keep that.
im not exactly ...but i know that most people in this hobby including myself really care about our tanks...
I have to respectfully disagree. Think about it. For each person that comes here to learn about keeping these critters there are hundreds that just go to the store on a whim and buy a tank and some filter and some rock and fish because thats what the LFS guy told them to do. He cycles the tank with that "nemo" and "dori" not knowing why his $20 fish died. So he gets an anemone to keep his clown happy and that lives for 4 months. Only to get another and another.
Or the guy who gets the linka stars over and over again and cant figure out where they go.
Or the guy that gets that puffer to play with his gobys.
There are all types and to say that most people care is silly. Most people dont take the time to really learn about this hobby. They just want to get some fish. Hell I was almost one of them until I saw a really nice reef in a LFS and decided I had to learn how to keep that.