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Originally Posted by Carpentersreef
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Month after month I see Tank-of-the-month articles featuring tanks that are 50% water and 50% LR/fish/corals. Crammed full of "life". It's not representative of the oceans, so why would they be as stable and self-sustaining?
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This has been my thought for quite a long time, and was confirmed with snorkelling in Hawaii. My first impression was "Man, is this ever dirty!". There was a layer of sludge covering the ocean floor and bits of crud floating everywhere. The other main thing I noticed was the distance I had to travel between points of interest. A cluster of rock and reef here with its accompanying fauna, then a few (or several) metres away another similar formation. Even in the most densely populated reefs I never saw anything close to the concentration of many tanks.
I guess what I'm trying to say is to get that much life to thrive in such a self contained environment takes a massive amount of fine tuning. The more points to tune, the easier it is to get out of line. And to keep that system pristinely clean as well...
There are those who drive a Ferrari and are comfortable with the mechanics bills and frequent tune-ups that come with it. I drive an old VW Golf diesel, and love it.