Originally Posted by
crimzy
A similar thread was started a couple years ago. Here was my response then and it hasn't changed:
Reefers are a bunch of losers... Who else would spend hundreds of dollars on something that can't even move? How much enjoyment can you get sitting for hours watching your leather coral do nothing. At least when you watch paint dry, you can see some progress. Why not just sit and watch a picture of an ocean for hours? Really, I mean I love my front lawn but I'm not spending hundreds and thousands of dollars on a blade of grass. OOOOHHHH, it's so exciting to watch it grow.
Some may argue that to keep such an environment takes intelligence... ha. To spend hours upon hours testing calcium, phosphates and other things I've never heard of just shows a lack of better things to do. Besides, the brightest people at my high school still didn't have dates to prom.
At least fish have some personality and there is something to watch.
BTW, this is all in good fun (I hope it's taken that way)... but it's time to drop the gloves.
Bring it on...
That's cute. I think smart people are more attractive than good looking people. thank you very much.
But seriously. It's not necessarily about the movement. It's about taking something small and growing it into something big, colorful and beautiful. It's an accomplishment that's fulfilling and rewarding. To see new buds pop up, proving that you are doing something right...
If you bought a reef tank filled with corals then yeah, it would be pretty, but you wouldn't get that same feeling of achievement.
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