If 10 people purchased a new car, each would most likely have the basics, wheels, an engine, windows, seats etc. Yet each of those vehicles would have diverse options both internally and externally for our own specific needs, taste and desires. I guess the same holds true in reefing. Each of us have the basics, a tank, stand, lights, water, live rock etc. Yet some of us have more selective options and truly believe they are a must to meet, achieve or exceed our own specific objectives, personal gratification, as well as a means to a successful and thriving reef tank.
Some of us have dedicated biotopes which cater to the specific needs of zoanthids, palythoas and proto palythoas only, yet some will have a diverse mix of soft corals, LPS and SPS etc. We have our books, forums, experience and our own anecdotal logic and reasoning behind what we do and don't do within our tanks. Some believe in lots of technology and feel it is a must to have, such as skimmers which are so big and powerful, they look like NASA built them. Or maybe a controller, so powerful they can turn on your lights, create oscillating current, feed junior and flush the toilet all at the same time. Maybe you have digital gadgets which checks and monitors your parameters and everything else with just an eye glance to know you're dead on spec wise, or an alert sent directly to your PC or cell phone if there's a perceived issues arising. Or maybe you have ATO, GFI or a TKO? Not necessarily bad things.
Maybe you're Low Tech, with an efficient/inefficient skimmer with a single screw setting that's a HOB or in sump drop in, very little automation, a few white timers for your lights that you picked up for $ 5.00 at the corner store. Unlike the fancy titanium in sump heaters with digital red light read outs, you have a glass heater in your tank or sump and a few power heads which are plug n play. But if you're Little to No Tech, you have even less.
So the question is this.
1. Would you consider your tank to be High, Low or little or NO Tech?
2. Why, explain?
3. Can good growth, coloration, a happy healthy and thriving [zoa] reef tank, etc etc etc, be achieved with or without one or the other? Is it vital to have or not have?
4. Please share how having or not having the above has enhanced or resulted in a decline of a positive reefing experience as it relates to your tank/corals?
5. Would you say the type of corals kept, whether solitary or mixed and bio load determines ones Tech level needed?
No need to limit your answers to the above questions. I hope this becomes a discussion and not just a Q & A.
Mucho Reef
Some of us have dedicated biotopes which cater to the specific needs of zoanthids, palythoas and proto palythoas only, yet some will have a diverse mix of soft corals, LPS and SPS etc. We have our books, forums, experience and our own anecdotal logic and reasoning behind what we do and don't do within our tanks. Some believe in lots of technology and feel it is a must to have, such as skimmers which are so big and powerful, they look like NASA built them. Or maybe a controller, so powerful they can turn on your lights, create oscillating current, feed junior and flush the toilet all at the same time. Maybe you have digital gadgets which checks and monitors your parameters and everything else with just an eye glance to know you're dead on spec wise, or an alert sent directly to your PC or cell phone if there's a perceived issues arising. Or maybe you have ATO, GFI or a TKO? Not necessarily bad things.
Maybe you're Low Tech, with an efficient/inefficient skimmer with a single screw setting that's a HOB or in sump drop in, very little automation, a few white timers for your lights that you picked up for $ 5.00 at the corner store. Unlike the fancy titanium in sump heaters with digital red light read outs, you have a glass heater in your tank or sump and a few power heads which are plug n play. But if you're Little to No Tech, you have even less.
So the question is this.
1. Would you consider your tank to be High, Low or little or NO Tech?
2. Why, explain?
3. Can good growth, coloration, a happy healthy and thriving [zoa] reef tank, etc etc etc, be achieved with or without one or the other? Is it vital to have or not have?
4. Please share how having or not having the above has enhanced or resulted in a decline of a positive reefing experience as it relates to your tank/corals?
5. Would you say the type of corals kept, whether solitary or mixed and bio load determines ones Tech level needed?
No need to limit your answers to the above questions. I hope this becomes a discussion and not just a Q & A.
Mucho Reef
