Curtswearing
Active Member
I found the articles very interesting and I haven't posted much about them. I absolutely LOVE the title of the series. I'm not sure I agree with everything that was stated in the series and I have a problem with some things but I'm not going there. Regardless, I still learn something new every day.
When I first started reefing, I trusted implicitly what one person at a particular LFS told me. I would go see him every Saturday morning, ask questions, and buy more stuff. It turned out that he didn't even work for the LFS. He ran a tank maintenance business. They let him hang around because he brought them sales but they weren't listening to what he was telling their customers. I never even made the connection when he would gather up what I was purchasing and give it to someone else to ring out. (I guess I'm a little too trusting). This guy was purposely creating problems in my tank and hitting me up for maintenance services each week. BTW----I do believe that if he showed his face in a single LFS in St. Louis, the local news would have a story about a customer who accidentally died by ingesting a rare poisonous toxin.
Then I found internet reefing boards. My trusting nature made me believe hook line and sinker, everything that experts said. I then proceeded to tell everyone that XYZ said this so it must be true. (Sorry guys).
I'm not commenting on this post other than the Title of the Series. However, I'm throwing my earlier mistakes out there to just warn you to think things through, ask questions, and make sure you understand the answer before moving on. Make sure it makes sense to you.
A couple of years ago, you were edit--made to feel like a complete idiot if you didn't buy shares of XYZ.com. The magazines said so, the talk radio said so, the internet said so, your friends said so. It might have been sound advice or it might have been poor advice. The mere fact that a lot of people repeated it didn't make it true.
edit---I really find it difficult to accept that we have the technology to overskim our tanks at this point unless you put a HUGE skimmer on a 29g tank. I would rather take out all organics and then control what goes into my tank rather than leave some organics in my tank that are not under my control.
When I first started reefing, I trusted implicitly what one person at a particular LFS told me. I would go see him every Saturday morning, ask questions, and buy more stuff. It turned out that he didn't even work for the LFS. He ran a tank maintenance business. They let him hang around because he brought them sales but they weren't listening to what he was telling their customers. I never even made the connection when he would gather up what I was purchasing and give it to someone else to ring out. (I guess I'm a little too trusting). This guy was purposely creating problems in my tank and hitting me up for maintenance services each week. BTW----I do believe that if he showed his face in a single LFS in St. Louis, the local news would have a story about a customer who accidentally died by ingesting a rare poisonous toxin.
Then I found internet reefing boards. My trusting nature made me believe hook line and sinker, everything that experts said. I then proceeded to tell everyone that XYZ said this so it must be true. (Sorry guys).
I'm not commenting on this post other than the Title of the Series. However, I'm throwing my earlier mistakes out there to just warn you to think things through, ask questions, and make sure you understand the answer before moving on. Make sure it makes sense to you.
A couple of years ago, you were edit--made to feel like a complete idiot if you didn't buy shares of XYZ.com. The magazines said so, the talk radio said so, the internet said so, your friends said so. It might have been sound advice or it might have been poor advice. The mere fact that a lot of people repeated it didn't make it true.
edit---I really find it difficult to accept that we have the technology to overskim our tanks at this point unless you put a HUGE skimmer on a 29g tank. I would rather take out all organics and then control what goes into my tank rather than leave some organics in my tank that are not under my control.
