Reef Keeping Misconceptions

kev apsley

kev apsley

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What do you find to be the most popular misconceptions in the reef hobby?

For example, why do we skim so heavy and then spend lot's of money on additives to add back into our tanks what we just pulled out???

list what you think are reef keeping misconceptions in your mind and why
 
aww Ive gotta click the link and than read about it though, thats way too inconvenient can someone just spoon feed me the info ;)
 
For example, why do we skim so heavy and then spend lot's of money on additives to add back into our tanks what we just pulled out???

What do you think you are removing that you need to add back?
 
micro fauna, carbon sources, a lot of reefers like to skim heavy then they wind up adding stuff back into the water so isn't too nutrient poor...from the time I came into the hobby everybody stated you have to run a skimmer in order to keep and grow sps, I don't skim that's just my way I feel that it takes too much out of the water column, I do a lot of wc's to keep nutirents from getting too high...
 
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Well, I'd say that concern is analogous to being concerned about urinating while also drinking. You are not taking in what you are removing, even if at a quick glance it seems similar and some of the constituents are the same. :)
 
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=13888341#post13888341 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Randy Holmes-Farley
Well, I'd say that concern is analogous to being concerned about urinating while also drinking. You are not taking in what you are removing, even if at a quick glance it seems similar and some of the constituents are the same. :)
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if your overskimming your tank to the point that your corals become pale, light and starved out then you turn around and add additives back into your tank to get your corals to look good again just seems uneccesary.

The point I am trying to make is that you don't have to run a skimmer to run a successful reef tank.
 
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=13888415#post13888415 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by kev apsley
overskimming your tank to the point that your corals become pale, light and starved out
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Is that even possible?
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=13888341#post13888341 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Randy Holmes-Farley
Well, I'd say that concern is analogous to being concerned about urinating while also drinking. You are not taking in what you are removing, even if at a quick glance it seems similar and some of the constituents are the same. :)
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:lol:
 
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=13888487#post13888487 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by virginiadiver69
Is that even possible?

:lol:
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are you serious? ummmm yeah, where have you been??

if your gonna post something at least make it half intelligent
 
Simmer down spunky.
I was merely curious and asked a question.

Where have I been? I've been on this board for two years and your the first person I've ever seen suggest the extremes of bleached out corral due solely to over skimming. I'm sure that if it were anything more than delusional it would get just a little air time. But it isn't so it doesn't.
...and as far as intelligent posting goes...I'm not the one insinuating that we add back to the tank what has been skimmed out. :p
 
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=13888756#post13888756 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by virginiadiver69
Simmer down spunky.
I was merely curious and asked a question.

Where have I been? I've been on this board for two years and your the first person I've ever seen suggest the extremes of bleached out corral due solely to over skimming. I'm sure that if it were anything more than delusional it would get just a little air time. But it isn't so it doesn't.
...and as far as intelligent posting goes...I'm not the one insinuating that we add back to the tank what has been skimmed out. :p
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First of all my name is Kevin not Spunky and I've been on these boards since 2004 and I have never seen you anywhere, so that tells me all I need to know..if you go into the sps forum it has been a talked about issue for quite a while, why do you think people dose AA's? yes, you can overskim your tank

somtimes I wonder why I even bother posting topics of discussion when all you get is people who want to act immature...it never ends!
 
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You are assuming that most reefers dose AAs? If you look at the hobbyists that have received the honor of "Tank of the Month", I think you will find that few of these hobbyists dose anything other than calcium, alk & magnesium. I agree that many hobbyists are able to run systems without a skimmer.
 
first of all this topic has gotten derailed

I know not all reefers dose AA's but I do know that when you skim very heavy and run a BB system you can get so low nutrient that corals turn pastel and light in color, which hobbyist turn to either adding more fish for fish poo and add supplementation in order to get their colors in check
 
I find that it is ironic, that you have posted a thread, "What do you find to be the most popular misconceptions in the reef hobby?" Then you make a statement that is what I and many of the hobbyist's here believe is a misconception.
 
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=13888940#post13888940 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by HighlandReefer
I find that it is ironic, that you have posted a thread, "What do you find to be the most popular misconceptions in the reef hobby?" Then you make a statement that is what I and many of the hobbyist's here believe is a misconception.
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what do you find to be a misconception?
 
If you noticed Kev, he was laughing about "urinating while also drinking." you got bent out of shape for no reason. You make some good points I have been wondering the same thing myself and have started looking into Mangroves/miracle mud and an algae scrubber. I skim dry cuz it makes me feel better :)
 
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=13888783#post13888783 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by kev apsley
I have never seen you anywhere
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Well...you obviously don't hang out where the cool people do. :love1:
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=13888783#post13888783 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by kev apsley
I've been on these boards since 2004
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Wow! :eek2: All hail Spunky. That's...let's see hear, two more years than me. I'm sure your wife/girlfriend is prettier, you drive a faster car and you have a higher paying job than I do too but, all I did was ask an honest question and got called immature and unintelligent for my trouble. :rolleye1:
P.S. You derailed your own thread with an unprovoked attack on a civil question.
By the way...I completely agree as well, that a successful reef can be run without a skimmer .
 
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