What do you think reefing will be like in the next twenty years? Innovations, etc...
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spscrackhead
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lol maybe tunze streams will actually become cheaper? they are getting new competiton. lights and skimmers for sure.
b.branscombe
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LobsterOfJustice
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Haha, yeah right. Somehow with all the new competition, prices are going up...
FishTruck
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I am hoping for "residential sized" nuclear reactors so we can end all this conservation crazy-talk.
Then, we can move on to supercorals fueled by 200,000 watt metal halides (in supercooled tanks with liquid Nitrogen compressors) which consume CO2 and produce oxygen so rapidly that we can just pave the rainforests turn them into a huge waterpark (perhaps).
Next... reefers who at this point control the worlds breathable gas supply can collaborate and begin demanding tax breaks and huge sums of government grants to keep the planet alive. We will all be fabulously weathly.
J/K (sort of).
R
Then, we can move on to supercorals fueled by 200,000 watt metal halides (in supercooled tanks with liquid Nitrogen compressors) which consume CO2 and produce oxygen so rapidly that we can just pave the rainforests turn them into a huge waterpark (perhaps).
Next... reefers who at this point control the worlds breathable gas supply can collaborate and begin demanding tax breaks and huge sums of government grants to keep the planet alive. We will all be fabulously weathly.
J/K (sort of).
R
NewMariner
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Stoner Tang
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I am not sure what reefing will be like, but I'll be 43. Damn!
Fishkeeper101
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Basically, I think aquarists aren't going to have to do anything, cept stock and watch.
I'm sure everything will be sold in kits. And cycling and such will be a thing of the past.
And I sure hope that tanks will get more energy efficient.
No more having 2/3 of the water going in to RO systems come out as waste.
And fish better be aquacultured by then. Otherwise we aren't going to have much to choose from.
I'm sure everything will be sold in kits. And cycling and such will be a thing of the past.
And I sure hope that tanks will get more energy efficient.
No more having 2/3 of the water going in to RO systems come out as waste.
And fish better be aquacultured by then. Otherwise we aren't going to have much to choose from.
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Can we get back on topic? This thread suddenly became no fun.
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It's $24 a year. Worth it, you should do it, I will too, just not this week as I have a frag swap to attend.
Can we get back on topic? This thread suddenly became no fun.
acrohead500ppm
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tomrep said it best, the track earth is heading down there prolly wont be many wild reefs around- if any, all coral will be considered endangered and will not be collected anymore,
There`s a company called GEN pets or something. They haven't started yet, or got the tech for that mater, anyway what you do is you call them up and say, "Hay I want a great white shark." What they would then do is send you one that is only about five inches long. The cool thing is it wold be any animal. The only problem is it would only live about a year.Also there cheapest things would be abot $400. 
Clone able animals would be nice to.
Clone able animals would be nice to.
S_Stoney_S
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This makes me sad that you think that this is a 20 years in the future price for your Ammerican fuel. You do realise that in the UK today I filled up my car for 1.10p a litre. Thats $8.31 a gallon.
As far as my reefing hopes and dreams go, its got to be all about Automation, taking some of the drudgery out of this hobby whilst leaving you more time to watch the fish can only be good. Not that most tank related activities arnt fun in their own right.
kathainbowen
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Lol. I've been waiting for that for a while! I've also been waiting for LA to either fall off the West coast and become a high-security prison ala Austrailia or to just become a festering wasteland of sin and crime like it was supposed to in 1996. Either that, or I've watched too many bad action flicks.
As per subject at hand, I'm expecting big changes in how we get livestock. I can see a big boom in captive aquaculture following the footsteps of ORA and many of the smaller companies to offer a greater variety of captive corals, fish, and inverts. We're already seeing many spcecies captively raised and bred, so I have a good feeling, in 20 years, there's going to be a ton more species available from aquaculture.
I'm also thinking we're going to see a shift in interest in saltwater aquaculture to a movement of "heading back to the reef," as I like to think about it. There is already a gentleman in Florida (drat, I wish I could remember the thread from RC that had his vid in is!) who has been farming coral off the coast of Florida as a private study. However, I think this will open up great interests to the aquaculture trade as both a more eco-friendly way to aquaculture easy-to-grow species native to a particular area (as a means to avoid having to build more and more to create adequate facilities, a way to cut back on the amount of energy non-renewable resources like oil needed to grow aquaculture, and as a way to encourage wild corals to continue to spawn and reproduce, especially in areas that the reef is depleted). I'm not saying this is a 100% definite thing, but I do think the interest is going to start swaying in that direction.
As per individual tanks, I do think we're going to see more and more automated tanks, as well as cheaper/easier ways to automate tanks. There's already tons of people making the switch to setting up "quick-change" set-ups for water-changing, so I do feel like new tanks and new overflow set-ups are basically going to start moving towards having this as an almost stock feature. I also think we're going to see people shifting their tanks' water flow towards changing flow as opposed to just laminal flow (considering there are already systems out there that do this- I just think it'll be cheaper and more commonly available). I also think we're going to see more interest in octo/cuttlefish tanks, as well as more common jellyfish tanks in private displays (a friend of mine is convinced jellies are the next big thing) and saltwater "planted" tanks (species tanks for caulerpa).
me = optimistic
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