Good advice. Untaken.

[Scott Fellman]

"Conflicting advice" is part of the problem - read any thread asking for advice and you'll see many different responses. Some in conflict, some that actually compliment each other yet still bicker, some that are the exact same thing just done a different way. Especially if you expand your reading to other reef forums as well. TRT spent pages and pages just trying to decide what the definition of a 'refugium' actually was - then still couldn't keep participants on track with it.
I know I myself have sometimes taken advice with a bit more than a grain of salt. Sometimes I just felt that the respondent didn't quite understand the situation/objective correctly. Sometimes even if I agreed with them there was perhaps some reason I couldn't follow the advice (equipment, budget, time, whatever). When I set up my first tank it was with a canister filter - LFS never tried to steer me away from it. Once I had it all set up I couldn't very well change direction. All the advice about it being a nitrate factory I just had to dismiss and resolve to clean it often. Good advice, un-able to be taken.

Yeah, that's the other possible "outcome." Sometimes, even the seemingly best advice is just not something you can't execute.

 

[scardall]

Yeah, that's the other possible "outcome." Sometimes, even the seemingly best advice is just not something you can execute.

I find my self there from time to time as it is factor of Money etc. Even with this the best advice isn't less valid as some demand it should be since it doesn't fit there needs,wants aor some other combination. IMO You should buy the best _fill in the blank_____________ that you can Afford with out the drama.

 

[Eienna]

....for that behavior, I have no words....
Yeah, I can be stubborn, but when someone I respect tells me what I ought to try (or not), ESPECIALLY if I asked them for advice, I try to follow it. My brain does have a "BS" filter for bad ideas, but I usually don't get those from the particular people I go to.

 

[_Conway]

Well I'm no expert, but I do feel that some of my experience can possibly help others. And if I can help others be successful, it's good for everyone- the hobby, the hobbyist- the animals- and yeah, even the vendor long term, who benefits from a great customer relationship borne of mutual experience and trust.

I'm lucky to have a lfs who has actually denied me more than he's sold me.
But when I'm ready for an upgrade I will go back to him.

 

[cmcoker]

And what if her story was about wiping out a litter of puppies she was responsible for versus a tank full of fish?

Believe me, these people show up at the vet hospital as well. They even pay for the advice they ignore...

I also get calls from anyone in my family, or wife's family, coworkers, and friends, that knows I am a Veterinary Technician asking advice about their pets medical concern. My wife even sees it now, they are, almost always, only calling for me to tell them that it's fine and they don't need to go to the vet, they ignore anything I say and wont go to the vet.

Also, I enjoy the phone calls at the hospital that go, "Hello I just gave my dog some Tylenol cause he doesn't feel good, is that OK? "

Why not call before? It is not ok, by the way, it's toxic..

 

[Untamedrose]

And what if her story was about wiping out a litter of puppies she was responsible for versus a tank full of fish?

See it too with puppies, never heard a story that went something like
They got a puppy, didnt vaccinate cause its "expensive", Puppy gets sick. Parvo. They spent lots of money at the vet. Puppy dies,few months later they are up on FB all I got a Puppy! But what do you mean Parvo stays in the yard?