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01-14-2010, 07:07 AM
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I took Randy Holmes Farley's Reef Chemistry Quiz... I guess I'm an apprentice marine chemist according to that. I really don't know how else a person can formally qualify themselves as something in this hobby. However I have often wondered the same question and I believe that only those people who advance the hobby with their innovations and new approaches can call themselves advanced or expert aquarists. The rest of us who follow the instructions carefully laid out in books and articles can really only hope to be considered as intermediates or apprentices.
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01-14-2010, 07:15 AM
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My MTS is very advanced... and since I am an aquarist... does that make me an advanced aquarist?
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01-14-2010, 02:11 PM
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Its just another canned title to make someone feel far superior to there peers. Seems like it has more todo with money spent then anything else.
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01-14-2010, 02:25 PM
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I am a Marine Hobbyologist!! that makes me superior!! MWAHAHAHA
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01-14-2010, 02:39 PM
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I'm an advanced newbie.......smart enough to know better but.......
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01-14-2010, 03:29 PM
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Well you can't stay a noob forever. I think we're all advanced aquarists, hell we're learning all sort of things about this hobby every day so I'd call that advancing towards...something  Now the term expert aquarist, that says ego to me
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01-14-2010, 03:56 PM
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01-14-2010, 04:52 PM
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just remember your not an "advanced aquarist" unless your internet reputation is big. just another newb
i hate the internet but forums are addicting edit... sorry forgot some other concepts unless you have a 100+ gal tank (preferably over 200gal) or you have a killer camera and can capture great shots of your livestock not to sound bitter but after talking to a few people i wanted to kick them in the balls for how they talked to me because i wasn't up to par with their standards. but thats how it is on every forum, unless you make a name for yourself post whoring your a a nobody Last edited by lorenz0; 01-14-2010 at 05:02 PM.
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