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Very Well said!
What makes a master aquarist?
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Very Well said!
What makes a master? Post count for sure......j/k
I have been keeping reef tanks for 15 years and have owned many tanks from little nanos to. 400 gal fowlr and 220 reefs. Am I a master??? Not even close
This is not a hobby where you can be a master. No matter how much experience and knowledge you have you are at the mercy of Mother Nature and life.
You may not want to hear this but our tanks sit on the edge of disaster every day. A clogged pump. A blown heater a power outage. Or recently in my case a bad chemical can destroy everything we work for. How can there be a master if most parts of this hobby are outside of our control
You can plan and have backups to backups but if Mother Nature wants your tank can be gone in a blink of an eye.
This is not a hobby of certainties and absolutes. There are a million different ways to keep a reef. And also a million ways for you reef to crash
Show me a reefer that hasn't had a crash and I will show you a reefer that will in the future
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I have been keeping reef tanks for 15 years and have owned many tanks from little nanos to. 400 gal fowlr and 220 reefs. Am I a master??? Not even close
This is not a hobby where you can be a master. No matter how much experience and knowledge you have you are at the mercy of Mother Nature and life.
You may not want to hear this but our tanks sit on the edge of disaster every day. A clogged pump. A blown heater a power outage. Or recently in my case a bad chemical can destroy everything we work for. How can there be a master if most parts of this hobby are outside of our control
You can plan and have backups to backups but if Mother Nature wants your tank can be gone in a blink of an eye.
This is not a hobby of certainties and absolutes. There are a million different ways to keep a reef. And also a million ways for you reef to crash
Show me a reefer that hasn't had a crash and I will show you a reefer that will in the future
Bob
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Great responses guys, i have heard the term master aquarist kicked around and i have to agree i dont think there is a master aquarist on the planet. Like many said things change and we are constantly learning in this hobby. One reason i love this hobby so much is i do learn something almost every day
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I have worked with marine biologists that grow coral and also worked with guys that could best be described as coral farmers. I am the latter. If your "skills" allow you to grow and propagate difficult corals, or raise difficult marine fish, you are in the master aquarist club, if that exists. IMO it's about success rates, not spouting knowledge, although you need the knowledge to be successful.
Great responses here. I also agree that there is really no master aquarist. There is an advanced aquarist with a lot of experiences and knowledge to draw upon when needed or asked. The respected advanced aquarist is usually humble and willing to take advice from fellow reefers no matter how well the reef tank is doing because he or she knows that bad things can and will happen no matter how diligent or good you are.
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No, that makes an enabled aquarist XD
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The word "expert" is thrown around a lot on these forums, but there are no experts as this is a hobby and they don't give degrees for expertness in a hobby.
We all just want to make our tank to our own satisfaction and if we like it and are happy with it, then we are experts in our own little world.
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Master aquarist first has to complete training with yoda then defeat darth maul. Lol!
What I like about this hobby is the infinite amount of variations in creatures and set ups you can have. Each different set up and creature requires many hours of research and labor to keep. With a great resource like this forum, hopefully we can all be successful with the animals that are entrusted to us to care for. We are really servants to the animals we care for. They are all alive and depend on our knowledge and husbandry.
What I like about this hobby is the infinite amount of variations in creatures and set ups you can have. Each different set up and creature requires many hours of research and labor to keep. With a great resource like this forum, hopefully we can all be successful with the animals that are entrusted to us to care for. We are really servants to the animals we care for. They are all alive and depend on our knowledge and husbandry.
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You can get a PhD in this "hobby" it's called marine biology.
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There are few if any scientific endeavors that anyone could say is totally known. My only point was there is a path you can take educationally that will provide you an enormous amount of understanding in the science of the hobby we love. A course in organic chemistry will certainly explain details of the nitrogen cycle that you probably weren't aware of for instance.
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How much do you spend on chemicals/additives/food on a monthly basis? I just started a 300g tank, so I need to know which of my body parts to sell.Taking the path less traveled with extraordinarily profound success.
