What have you found does not make sense in this hobby?

[Joey Marino]

Hey Guys! For my first post here I wanted to make a thread concerning what (if anything) you have found does not make sense in the aquarium industry. Mine has always been the way rock is sold by weight.

If you have good rock that is porous with a lot of surface area, a specific size will cost less, and be much better for your tank vs. a rock that is completely solid and has the minimum surface area. However, the only viable way to sell accordingly would be to account for %porocity. This would involve displacing water, finding volume of rock w/o pores, then somehow measuring volume of the rock w/ pores. Probably not feasible.

 

[Sahye]

well about every marine equipment are over priced

 

[aaron23]

well about every marine equipment are over priced

this is a pretty unique hobby. everyone knows getting into this its a black hole where you throw money into and none of it ever comes back

 

[Joey Marino]

well about every marine equipment are over priced

LOL including the live/dead rock!!

 

[CastAway]

So many things don't make sense to me.

Like, black sand and rock that's spray painted purple.

 

[CastAway]

....the sale of flame scallops, and starfish...

 

[Reefrookie220]

So many things don't make sense to me.

Like, black sand and rock that's spray painted purple.

I hear you on that krylon rock, but I'm guilty of the black sand, lol

 

[Joey waid]

You have filter socks that you can't flip inside out to clean.

 

[CastAway]

I mean Hawaii is cool and all, but geesh.

 

[CastAway]

...and don't get me going on coral names and SPS sales. Two frags of the same exact coral, lit differently over time, become two different names and twice the gouge. Throw in a little photoshop and over saturation, and we're all the biggest suckers ever.

 

[Reefrookie220]

The fact that we buy a 100 dollar sps frag, wait patiently to grow it and frag, then it's a 10-20$ frag.

 

[CastAway]

The fact that we buy a 100 dollar sps frag, wait patiently to grow it and frag, then it's a 10-20$ frag.

Shoot! I do that on purpose, just to spite the game.

 

[Reefrookie220]

I can't keep sps anyway, the one I got from you is crap brown but it's growing and great polyp extension.

 

[CastAway]

I can't keep sps anyway, the one I got from you is crap brown but it's growing and great polyp extension.

Which? The Chalice?

 

[KJ]

Which? The Chalice?

 

[saltyfilmfolks]

Zoas.

 

[USMC 4 LIFE]

Zoas.

I plan on keeping many different types of Zoas in my tank. Are they difficult to maintain? Slow to grow?

 

[saltyfilmfolks]

I plan on keeping many different types of Zoas in my tank. Are they difficult to maintain? Slow to grow?

lol. search zoa melted threads.

Hint buy the cheap ones first!........just a learning curve. another learning curve

 

[saltyfilmfolks]

I plan on keeping many different types of Zoas in my tank. Are they difficult to maintain? Slow to grow?

totally worth you driving to reefers garage btw.....if you head farther south pm me.

 

[USMC 4 LIFE]

totally worth you driving to reefers garage btw.....if you head farther south pm me.

I travel to San Diego every other weekend so I'll definitely swing on by next week and check the place out. Head lots of stuff from that place. I need to check out Aqua SD as well. I was there when they opened 5 years ago and they were awesome at helping me setup my first reef tank.