How long have you been Reefkeeping for?
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I am semi-salt pickled. Not as pickled as Len, of course.
About 7/8 years of reefing, 3 more before that Fish Only, Another 5 years before that Freshwater planted, 2 more before that Freshwater Community fishes, and 10+ years before that catching fish (fishing........)
About 7/8 years of reefing, 3 more before that Fish Only, Another 5 years before that Freshwater planted, 2 more before that Freshwater Community fishes, and 10+ years before that catching fish (fishing........)
I had my 1st saltwater aquarium 21 years ago.... 8O .
I distinctly remember having an anemone in a 33 gallon, being told to make sure that it had good circulation and plenty of a "special" liquid invert food... :roll: .
I also distinctly remember having a powerhead, NO lights, adding critters from the ocean...(I lived in Vancouver at the time)... :roll: - and the anemone atrophing on one side and dying due to single direction flow, and everything else I put in there dying within 2 weeks.
I've had freshwater off and on for around 30 years.
God, I'm old.
Mitch
I distinctly remember having an anemone in a 33 gallon, being told to make sure that it had good circulation and plenty of a "special" liquid invert food... :roll: .
I also distinctly remember having a powerhead, NO lights, adding critters from the ocean...(I lived in Vancouver at the time)... :roll: - and the anemone atrophing on one side and dying due to single direction flow, and everything else I put in there dying within 2 weeks.
I've had freshwater off and on for around 30 years.
God, I'm old.
Mitch
:lol:
Yeah, I figgered that the iodized salt would save me on additives... :wink:
It was Instant Ocean, and I think the skimmer was the same design as Lee's. (wooden airstone)
You should see my marine reference books from back then!
Don't get too excited, after that first SW trial, I didn't get seriously into reef again until about 5 years ago.
Mitch
(middle of nowhere....sheesh!...'mericans!)
Yeah, I figgered that the iodized salt would save me on additives... :wink:
It was Instant Ocean, and I think the skimmer was the same design as Lee's. (wooden airstone)
You should see my marine reference books from back then!
Don't get too excited, after that first SW trial, I didn't get seriously into reef again until about 5 years ago.
Mitch
(middle of nowhere....sheesh!...'mericans!)
I've been reefing for two years, four months, and twelve days. My reef was reborn again tonight(got the rock arranged), we'll see how it goes this time around :roll:.
I started fishkeeping about 23 years ago, first salt tank in the early eighties, then picked up salt again early nineties, dropped out for ten years and then noticed...hey what happened to all the trickle filters :wink: .
I started fishkeeping about 23 years ago, first salt tank in the early eighties, then picked up salt again early nineties, dropped out for ten years and then noticed...hey what happened to all the trickle filters :wink: .
CG
I've been keeping reef tanks since 1986 when a Dutchman named George Smit brought the "mini-reef" concept to America via the pages of FAMA magazine. Shortly thereafter a guy named Albert Thiel wrote the first books published in America on Reefkeeping. A young Julian Sprung began to write a monthly colum in FAMA called Reef Notes and a guy named Martin Moe Jr. was getting the techniques of raising clown fish down to pat. Success with acropora was unheard of in this country, but a guy named Peter Wilkens was unlocking the secrets of marine water chemistry and touting the benefits of protein skimming and "lime water" additions, and teaching it to the German hobbyists.
Ironically it was a ban on angelfish and butterflies that pushed the German hobbyists into the reef hobby ahead of the rest of the world. The Dutch too were keeping tanks with lots of macro algae and no water changes.
A lot has changed and information that was once hard to find is now everywhere. The hobby has evolved greatly during the past 17-years and what was presumed fact one day, became folly the next. I suspect we are still involved in the evolution of the hobby and that we still have some learning to do. I hope we don't become so convinced that we know it all, that we prevent people from testing the parameters.
I've been keeping reef tanks since 1986 when a Dutchman named George Smit brought the "mini-reef" concept to America via the pages of FAMA magazine. Shortly thereafter a guy named Albert Thiel wrote the first books published in America on Reefkeeping. A young Julian Sprung began to write a monthly colum in FAMA called Reef Notes and a guy named Martin Moe Jr. was getting the techniques of raising clown fish down to pat. Success with acropora was unheard of in this country, but a guy named Peter Wilkens was unlocking the secrets of marine water chemistry and touting the benefits of protein skimming and "lime water" additions, and teaching it to the German hobbyists.
Ironically it was a ban on angelfish and butterflies that pushed the German hobbyists into the reef hobby ahead of the rest of the world. The Dutch too were keeping tanks with lots of macro algae and no water changes.
A lot has changed and information that was once hard to find is now everywhere. The hobby has evolved greatly during the past 17-years and what was presumed fact one day, became folly the next. I suspect we are still involved in the evolution of the hobby and that we still have some learning to do. I hope we don't become so convinced that we know it all, that we prevent people from testing the parameters.
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