"I have not seen any negative effects."

Paul B · Sep 20, 2015

Overfed tourists of course are partly responsible for water pollution (and sight pollution) but I took that picture on a small outer Island, I think it was Lanai where like 8 people live. If you dive in many places in the world including Tahiti which is rather remote you will see hoards of tangs, slugs, urchins, chitins, rabbitfish, algae bleenies and manatees. Those animals eat algae and not much of anything else and they have been there for thousands of years, long before overfed tourists. The algae is there and it has always been there, tourists or not. Algae is a normal, natural and healthy part of any tropical sea and if you don't see any algae it is because those animals I mentioned ate it all. But if you remove those animals for a week, the sea would be a soup of algae. Nutrients or not algae grows. These guys eat nothing but algae so if you throw one or two in your tank, your problems will be over. In more ways than one. We should think of algae as a friend instead of an enemy.

Kungpaoshizi · Sep 21, 2015

Can't recall the name of the vid, pretty creepy vid out there about the west coast of Canada. 17 minute video with no fish and only urchins. (they suspect fukushima to blame)

Paul B · Sep 21, 2015

I also took this off a remote Island in Hawaii. Notice in every rock is an urchin. Guess what they are eating? No, it's not Burger King. They are eating algae and if you remove them like other places I saw, the algae takes over.
It's supposed to be there and I doubt the water in your tank is cleaner than Molokai.

Macdaddynick1 · Oct 8, 2015

Kungpaoshizi said:
In all my time on this Earth, I've never seen a better example of the 'mass mentality' than what is witnessed in the aquarium community. Specifically reefing.
The internet does enable more people to come together, but it seems that's a double edged sword.

The title statement makes me think of these scenarios:

The drunk who drinks everyday.
The smoker who can't go 2 days without a cig.
The painter who never wears a mask.
The welder who never wears a ventilation mask.
The asphalt paver who never wears a mask.
The demolition team that don't wear masks.

Why do people continue to say this phrase? What does the phrase mean to you?
I put this in the Reef Discussion section because it seems like a fairly acceptable phrase people use when reefing.

If you're in-tune with what I'm laying down, you'll know that every single example above, deals with carcinogenic and toxic situations that can all lead to serious health problems.

I bring this up because I personally believe only we can form the hobby, so we should leave behind the primitive mentalities like the old methods.

I keep on telling everyone one , that we must rise as the inventors of the new ideas and stop doing the water changes. [emoji23] water changes came from the old and primitive mentality . We are better than that !!!!. Let's not succumb to the pressure brother. [HASHTAG]#newwaysonly[/HASHTAG]