skairik,
I whole heartley agree with everything you've written. You and I think alike. I didn't mean that you keeping a MI for 1 1/2 years was not a sucess in some way or another, but to be totally sucessful on any fish we keep, we would have to keep it close to the life span it would have in the wild. They do it with FW fish so why can't we do it with SW fish?
As for me and my first SW tank as MammothReefer aluded to, that first tank was back in the mid 70's, long before anyone knew much of anything about SW, long before a lot of the current hobbiest were even born. There are a few of us who have been at this for awhile. My second SW tank was also my first reef, back in 1990, and I had a learning curve there as well. We all learn and hopefully keep adding to our knowledge to keep from repeating the same mistake, otherwise we have learned nothing.
As skairik has stated, who does set the standard of what fish we can or can not keep? Also who is it that names the few people that seem to get to be the authority on giving a coral or fish a pretty little name so that they can raise the price to just this side of redulicas? But that's another pet peve of mine for another discussion.
If we want to keep MI's, which I plan on doing in the near future, we need to learn and also share our knowledge with others so that we can futher this hobby, not bully people who want to try something. Every fish is different, even of the same species, just like we are all different even though we are of the same species.
Do you think we would have gotten as evolved as we have if no one tryed anything or shared their experiences?
I whole heartley agree with everything you've written. You and I think alike. I didn't mean that you keeping a MI for 1 1/2 years was not a sucess in some way or another, but to be totally sucessful on any fish we keep, we would have to keep it close to the life span it would have in the wild. They do it with FW fish so why can't we do it with SW fish?
As for me and my first SW tank as MammothReefer aluded to, that first tank was back in the mid 70's, long before anyone knew much of anything about SW, long before a lot of the current hobbiest were even born. There are a few of us who have been at this for awhile. My second SW tank was also my first reef, back in 1990, and I had a learning curve there as well. We all learn and hopefully keep adding to our knowledge to keep from repeating the same mistake, otherwise we have learned nothing.
As skairik has stated, who does set the standard of what fish we can or can not keep? Also who is it that names the few people that seem to get to be the authority on giving a coral or fish a pretty little name so that they can raise the price to just this side of redulicas? But that's another pet peve of mine for another discussion.
If we want to keep MI's, which I plan on doing in the near future, we need to learn and also share our knowledge with others so that we can futher this hobby, not bully people who want to try something. Every fish is different, even of the same species, just like we are all different even though we are of the same species.
Do you think we would have gotten as evolved as we have if no one tryed anything or shared their experiences?
the food bowl is to keep the pellets from getting everywhere. he still eats the pellets and flakes that aren't in the bowl.
