Just a rant nothing major....

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Originally Posted by whatcaneyedo

I was just listing the people who featured their tanks this year and also you did sort of miss most of them.

Tyler your advice is good too. (in case you see this and feel left out).

Hahahaha naw. I agree that each tank large or small has its own challenges. They are all expensive though. Weird how that works.

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Originally Posted by sphelps

I've not aware of anyone that discriminates against nano tanks. That makes zero sense, who are these people?

I too have never heard this before. I ran nano for years and can't count those who helped out.

Are you sure it's not a personality conflict ?

[Dearth]

Originally Posted by whatcaneyedo

So... how come we didn't see you at any of the PG Reef Tank Tour showings? Do you work Sundays? Staffan, Doug, George, Craig, myself and everyone else on the 40 person emailing list are all very receptive to meeting new people and sharing our experiences and advice (plus you get to see some tanks in person). .

I would like to see them but my work and personal life schedule have been getting in the way and because I work shift and days off change every week gets a lil more challenging

Originally Posted by whatcaneyedo

A good introductory book would answer a lot of questions that new people ask before they ask them. But books are long, boring and expensive whereas internet answers are short, lively and free so I guess that wont ever change. The search function works well too.

I work with Shaun and he was the dope that got me into this and he gave me lots of literature which helped immensely and I did lots of reading on the net and getting keyboard face and tried not to ask the same questions as every other person has and unfortunately have had a rough start temp hand paralylis, partial tank kill,PITA cats and a few other things but the good news or sad news depending on how look at it is I'm hooked on SW

Originally Posted by whatcaneyedo

I too have created accounts on RC, Ultimate Reef, Reef Frontiers, TGVAS, BCAquaria etc. But its pretty much the same everywhere. Canreef has the advantage of being local/national, relevant and just active enough.

As I said I joined several forum sites to learn and before canreef I was on reef central and American Aquarists(that site is now down) and both flamed nano systems a lot then I joined Canreef and nano-reef both have helped me lots but found nano-reef to be very american do it my way or else still visit but never post

Originally Posted by whatcaneyedo

Some people on here have nanos with more gadgetry, that are more expensive and contain more specimens than the average persons +100gal system. Their basic requirements are no differen't than a large tank. In some ways they are actually more difficult to keep

Aye and very impressive to boot only wish my tank could look half as impressive but for a first time setup I think I've done ok but I am probably going to be upgrading soonish to a 90 gallon and a whole new learning experience sumps/plumbing,overflows, new gadgets and tons of crying over an empty wallet

[Dearth]

Originally Posted by Madreefer

But all kidding aside. Dean you should put your tank on the tour. You left my house with a huge amount of frags as well as colonies. Its been since before the snow landed. I'd like to check your tank out. Im hoping everything has flourished.

Out of the 9 colonies and frags I got 2 died soon after putting into my tank and the other 7 are doing fair to extremely well(frogspawn and hammer coral are getting friggen huge). I got 5 coral from aiptasia central(total pet) and 3 died from my partial tank melt down the other 2(Red and Green brain and purple xenia) are doing extremely well.

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I run nanos. Much more challenging! Wish I could jump into a "big boy" tank but not financially feasible. It's all about preference and realistic goals for your tank. Simple setups but have had zero coral fatalities, and by god, they r fun!

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Thing about RC is their huge, your gonna get yay's and nay's for random reasons, with that said there is a nano forumn and ime is pretty active with experience reefers. As far as keeping nanos is concerned I had more in my 25g then most in a tank 10 times its size and a lot of my coral and fish are for expert or advanced reefers.

Its not the size of the canvas the artist uses that makes the piece its how yje artist displays their gift, at the end of the day a piece of art is a piece of art.