Professional Installation for a 180-Gallon Salt Water Aquarium

[Matt]

Remember to stop by to visit the fine folks at "Underwater Depot" for all your aquatic needs. <I can't believe I actually bothered to find their website> Their "one of a kind" aquariums on their site are every bit as fine as the video would suggest.

[Aquattro]

k, I'm just setting up my tank now (I know, stupid homeowner) and I'm wondering if I really need plumbing to suck the water out of my tank. If anyone knows a professional that might be able to answer this for me, I'd appreciate it. Thx.

[justinl]

plastic coral! crap on a stick, i knew i was doing SOMEthing wrong. i wonder if our dear professionals can ever save my little disaster of a reef. i think mine might be salvageable, but i know marc's reef must be a complete write-off...

[spoot]

I was wondering how overflows worked; had this weird notion of gravity on my mind. But I've been set straight thanks to the proffessional!

[midgetwaiter]

Originally Posted by BC564

so....a person hires a professional to come to your house to install a salt water tank....finishes then leaves....and now this homeowner is standing there looking at a tank and has no clue or limited clue as to what or how this thing works.....and lets face it.....professional really just means that he is paid to do this job......

Im pretty sure that most hobbyist know more then this guy......and then think how much money people have invested into their systems....they research the hell out of it to do it right.... funny how you can throw the word professional around and it just makes everything ok.

Not everyone with a saltwater tank is a rabid hobbyist, lots of people just like pretty moving furniture. They want somebody to do everything for them.

I'm don't agree with everything he said but I think he did an ok job considering the audience it was aimed at.

[Matt]

Originally Posted by midgetwaiter

Not everyone with a saltwater tank is a rabid hobbyist, lots of people just like pretty moving furniture. They want somebody to do everything for them.

I'm don't agree with everything he said but I think he did an ok job considering the audience it was aimed at.

I would have expected more outrage from someone in the trade...

[OCDP]

I didn't think the vid was THAT bad, he had a pretty basic, general idea of what was going on.

But, professionalism was the key to that video.

[midgetwaiter]

Originally Posted by Matt

I would have expected more outrage from someone in the trade...

Why?

Up until the half way point I thought it was an ok job. Explaining to someone starting at absolute zero what all that plumbing does is tricky. If you go into too much detail you'll overload them and they won't retain anything you said.

The rest of it was not so good. Starter fish, ugly ornaments, "I'm a professional PVC monkey" etc. Outrage might be a bit much though, there is much worse out there to be seen.

[BC564]

Originally Posted by midgetwaiter

Not everyone with a saltwater tank is a rabid hobbyist, lots of people just like pretty moving furniture. They want somebody to do everything for them.

I'm don't agree with everything he said but I think he did an ok job considering the audience it was aimed at.

I havent met those other type of SW hobbyist that you speak of, just us rabid ones.

[Tarolisol]

Do people actully use wet dry filters for SW?