Let's put everything in including the kitchen sink.

[gpdno]

It's not just the aquarium, I've also noticed it with controllers. Both Apex and Reef Angle require a level of programming. I grew up programming my Commodor 64, Learned FORTAN, C, etc. Used to get my email using PINE and still remember how to hard code HTML.

My father generation, mostly computer challenged but willing to learn.

These new kids, ha... What do you mean I have to program? what's that? isn't there an App for that? I want it to work now! No thinking required

 

[atrox]

I remember when the sea clone skimmer was the must have for the season. I miss that skimmer, and my under gravel filter.

 

[Nina51]

ooooooo the colors!

 

[jonwright]

But supplements are pervasive for our lives so it would naturally go hand in hand with this hobby.

Need to lose weight? take a pill. Stop smoking, take a pill. dongy is only dingly and not springy? There's a pill for that, too.... Don't analyze what's going on or really think about it - take a pill/buy something and it will fix your issue QUICK!

And as for technology teaching impatience: I'm sure it would be easy to find some one complain that Email is replacing the "personal" touch of telephone, and then how telephone is ruining letter writing, and how letter writing ruins personal visits etc....

Nonetheless this has been a good lesson in patience - more from a "keep chipping away at it" as opposed to having a project I can complete in a day or two.

Probably 30 years from now folks are going to be complaining that the direct brain implants keep you from disconnecting - which in OUR day meant we just put the i-phone down for a few seconds.

 

[d2mini]

dongy is only dingly and not springy? There's a pill for that, too....

:lol:

 

[atrox]

Eureka I've spotted a trend all vodka dosers have a reef central join date of 2012 or newer.

 

[Cdogsailr]

When I started my first salt tank I was wearing bell bottoms and Michael Jackson was a kid. Few were doing corals and it was rare to see them at the LFS. There was no internet so the LFS guys were gospel. Never heard of a skimmer and under gravel filters were king. Live rock and live sand, what's that? Stressing a damsel was the only way to start a tank. What's bio load? Just stock to your budget. In a 55 gal I had lionfish, triggers, anemones, clowns, crabs, and feed nothing but a steady diet of goldfish for all for years. Had no test kits, just a trip to the LFS if something seemed off. We did lots wrong back then and killed or stressed stock unknowingly. New technology is good and I embrace it where practical. However, I generally stop short of fighting chemicals with chemicals and do prefer patience over immediacy.

 

[Vilas]

Nothing wrong with the occasional vodka dose. Oh, wait, you're putting it in your TANK?

 

[gpdno]

Nothing wrong with the occasional vodka dose. Oh, wait, you're putting it in your TANK?

Seems like a waste of perfectly good vodka to me. I would much rather have mine in a nice martini, shaken not stirred of corse

 

[tallball158]

I don't know about vodka dosing, but I do drink a beer and pour some in the tank as I am working on it. It seems to really work on diatoms. I haven't tried whiskey dosing yet, but I will probably try moonshine next.

 

[atrox]

There was once a dream that was Rome (urinating in tank). You could only whisper it.(did he really pee in his tank) Anything more than a whisper and it would vanish... it was so fragile. And I fear that it will not survive the winter.

 

[tallball158]

There was once a dream that was Rome (urinating in tank). You could only whisper it.(did he really pee in his tank) Anything more than a whisper and it would vanish... it was so fragile. And I fear that it will not survive the winter.

Lol

 

[risin]

Definitely one of the more entertaining treads on RC.

I carbon dose... After fighting high nutrients with patience and losing by a land slide.

 

[DSMpunk]

Why vodka anyway? Vinegar or sugar is so much cheaper.

For drinking, Tito's FTW.

 

[mluntz]

I started dosing Jack Daniels a few months ago and I've noticed my fish have taken a liking to NASCAR and country music...:fun2:

Sorry, I drink Jack Daniels and it is too expensive to put in the tank...LOL!

 

[bobbravo2]

I don't know about vodka dosing, but I do drink a beer and pour some in the tank as I am working on it. It seems to really work on diatoms. I haven't tried whiskey dosing yet, but I will probably try moonshine next.

A drunken fishy is a happy fishy :fish2:

 

[biokid]

I use moonshine oh and I make myself. .

 

[Jolly_Roger]

And yes that's cyano on the foreground and dosnt bother me in the least.

At least I am not the only one not bugged.

 

[bobbravo2]

At least I am not the only one not bugged.

That was the first generation "in tank refugium"

 

[Paul B]

I put less things in my tank now than I did in the 70s.

I miss that skimmer, and my under gravel filter.

I still use my UG filter. :bum: