<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=10032008#post10032008 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by 32flavors
Bean, you are one bitter person with a very narrow perspective.
Haha.. I am not bitter at all and I certainly do not have a narrow perspective.
There was a time when most of what we reefers do was a practical, and therefore ethical, imfeasiability. That changed.
What does that have to do with the subject at hand?
NOBODY SAID HE COULDN'T DO IT. I (WE) just laid out many of the the logistical issues, financial issues and aesthetic considerations. Once these items are all considered, it is fairly easy to come to the conclusion that there are much better routes to take for almost any desired end result. Why is that so hard for some of you to understand?
1) Define the goal
2) Define the budget
3) Build a plan
4) Implement the plan
The man posted here without ANY of the above and instead with a very lose idea to turn a pool into a reef tank. The conversation started to evolve and will continue to evolve. In the meantime the cheerleaders are lining up chanting "just do it, just do it".
This is actually starting to get rather funny.
Much of what most of us want to do remains financially imfeasable. However, give somebody a big enough well of resources and desire, and you get... well, not to put too fine a point on it: visionaries who achieve that which has yet to been achieved.
What does that have to do with the topic at hand? What a bunch of mush.
As a historian, I could post a dissertation in support of this statement, but I really don't have as much time as you...
Your not the only student of history here. This is not a matter of history or innovation. This is not a matter of somebody telling a person it can not be done. It is a simple matter of applying common sense to an idea. I am sure of the guy wants to build a public aquarium in his back yard he could fight like hell to get it done and possibly be successful.
BUT WAIT! He did not say he wanted to build seaworld. He said he wanted to turn his pool into a reef tank. He then mentioned getting financial support by using it for aquarculture. The comments that followed were based on those premises.
Come on guys, fairly simple stuff here. We can do without all the touchy feely stuff.
And things are a little different in California in terms of such an undertaking, but only because of the year-round weather. It is diferent than Pitts, PA.
I never knew that things were different. You see I have never left Pittsburgh, Pa.
Finally, you just keep missing the point: as long as it's done with respect to ethically sustaining the inhabitants, then what does someone with a 200g reef look like compared to someone with 12k g? IT'S NOT YOUR PLACE TO JUDGE!!
Wow you just keep twisting this around and around... why is it that all of these thread with folks such as yourself take the same goofy turn? Who said anything about ethics? Who said anything about judging the guy? What in the world are you talking about?
Pose reasonable questions for consideration, absolutely, but please, stop trying to defend what isn't a position of an absolute but a personal opinion about how someone should expend their resources.
Umm I have posed reasonable information... please show me where I have not?
You aren't being reasobably helpful in the form of skepticism; you're being unreasonably pessimistic by suggesting that you know something can't or shouldn't be done, when you don't know that it can't and it isn't your place to say with absolute certainty that it shouldn't.
I never said it could not be done. I said that once the goals are defined it will be clear that there are much better courses of action, both from a financial standpoint and a logistical standpoint. I have said that some of you are to busy being offended to understand that. I have said that some of you are blindly cheering a guy on without understanding at all what you are cheering for. Pretty simple... you deep thinkers have made it much more complicated than it is.
One thing to remember is that a freshwater bass tank and a reef tank are two totally different entities entirely. Pay for my move and give me a salary of Fifty thousand/ yr. and i will hook you up
