What kind of SW Tank do you have?

[justinl]

Originally Posted by Snappy

I'm surprized at how many sps tanks there are. I keep hearing from the stores that nobody is into sps and they don't like bringing it in. I thank them for thinking that, it helps my frag sales.

Well yeah around here, youd get a higher amount of people with sps dominated tanks. sps are more "challenging" and so more "advanced" aquarists will take it on. canreef and boards like us will always have a higher amount of advanced keepers with "beginners" coming and going and not really posting heavily. However the "beginners" of the hobby are greatly underrespresented around here. think about it. there are a LOT of people who have set up their tanks to be as easy to maintain as possible... and they'll tell their lfs so. so they end up with softie and possibly lps dominated tanks... i cant imagine an lfs recommending an sps tank for a beginner can you?

sorry, i just got out of my statistics course... lurking variables, correlation and causation oh my!

[Snappy]

Originally Posted by justinl

Well yeah around here, youd get a higher amount of people with sps dominated tanks. sps are more "challenging" and so more "advanced" aquarists will take it on. canreef and boards like us will always have a higher amount of advanced keepers with "beginners" coming and going and not really posting heavily. However the "beginners" of the hobby are greatly underrespresented around here. think about it. there are a LOT of people who have set up their tanks to be as easy to maintain as possible... and they'll tell their lfs so. so they end up with softie and possibly lps dominated tanks... i cant imagine an lfs recommending an sps tank for a beginner can you?

sorry, i just got out of my statistics course... lurking variables, correlation and causation oh my!

Interestingly enough, I have had a lot of newcomers asking me for sps frags but I do understand the other side of the equation you are getting at. Although there's still a lot of people who are experienced that just aren't into sps because they think they're boring. (myself I don't get that, but to each is own) I also like softies and LPS so I have them too.

[Delphinus]

Originally Posted by marie

It depends which one I worked on this week.

Soooo very true. I was gonna say that's a hard one to answer because my answer would change weekly. (This one! No, this one! No, Ok, that one.)

But now that you mention it, it does seem to correspond to whichever tank I cleaned last.

[tang daddy]

I have recently been stocking up on sps, sold most of my lps because of room issues. Begginers are fond of nice colour and size which most softies offer, but for me I've definately slanted toward sps how many here can say when they look at a nice piece of sps their heart goes soft and feel this overwhelming joy?

[Scavenger]

I didn't see a catagory for "pathetic, hair algae farm" so I didn't vote

[Johnny Reefer]

Originally Posted by Scavenger

I didn't see a catagory for "pathetic, hair algae farm" so I didn't vote

. I hear you. If Aiptasia farm were listed, then I could vote too.