I answer this with my build thread title:”60G Cube - I can do this cheaply, right? AKA the Mars Mission”
Morning Paul! So I'm thinking an article is needed from you. Seeing how you started when nothing much was available compared to today, you come at this with a different prospective on what is required to run a successful reef tank. Maybe a simple setup list and plan for a inexpensive reef with bare minimum expenses. We can refer new reefers to. Coming from you would have some validity. I run a very minimal reef and have been very successful so far but coming from you I think would have more impact.I must be doing this wrong. I spend hardly anything. The people who spend all this money, what are you spending it on? I get the electricity and food, but unless your fish and corals are dropping dead all over the place, where is all this money going?
I'm so confused.
My original intent of the question was just if you set a budget per month. I agree though, at this point in time it’s super cheap to run my tank. I only throw money away bc of buying expensive corals lol.
The era of instagram and social media has probably exploded this hobby for good and bad! Thanks for all your work. I’ll have to check some of it out, as I don’t know you or any of your thoughts…but I do know a bit nowCichlid Dad, Thank you for having faith in my thoughts. But there is an enormous, unbelievable, unsurmountable amount of people that feel I am either nuts or a liar and don't know a reef tank from a field of sunflowers or goats.
I don't believe in so many things in this hobby, one of which I feel it is silly to allow your fish to get sick and many people can't grasp that idea, so I think much money is spent on trying to cure fish or quarantine or medicate them to stay healthy which I feel is counter productive to keeping them healthy.
You are correct, I have been here the day the hobby started. I think it was on a Tuesday, about 2:30 in the afternoon.
There are 2 ways to enjoy this hobby and one of those ways is very expensive. I hear how much money some people put into this and it boggles my old, senile mind.
Cichlid dad, I wrote numerous threads, posts, articles, podcasts and even wrote a book so I think people know my thoughts.
No sense re hashing it again.
Yup…sounds about where mine is. What are some rare fish you can’t say no too? Or some more expensive corals you like?
I had to go to my computer for this one...Cichlid Dad, Thank you for having faith in my thoughts. But there is an enormous, unbelievable, unsurmountable amount of people that feel I am either nuts or a liar and don't know a reef tank from a field of sunflowers or goats.
I don't believe in so many things in this hobby, one of which I feel it is silly to allow your fish to get sick and many people can't grasp that idea, so I think much money is spent on trying to cure fish or quarantine or medicate them to stay healthy which I feel is counter productive to keeping them healthy.
You are correct, I have been here the day the hobby started. I think it was on a Tuesday, about 2:30 in the afternoon.
There are 2 ways to enjoy this hobby and one of those ways is very expensive. I hear how much money some people put into this and it boggles my old, senile mind.
Cichlid dad, I wrote numerous threads, posts, articles, podcasts and even wrote a book so I think people know my thoughts.
No sense re hashing it again.
Thank you, I didn't know how to encourage Paul, you did it well
I can't find what I want to reply with... mainly cause the movie has been unofficially banned.
Is this Paul?
