Take a deep breath.........talking about Sundays Talkingreeflive6
The rant sounded to me as almost "anti newbie". Let's make newbies uncomfortable for asking the same question as someone else has done. Actually, let's kick the crap out of a newbie that just wasted 50 hours of his/her time last week correcting mistakes some
LFS advised him or her to make that they didn't know better, and on top of it ,it cost him or her 50 bucks! What's up with that? Rob tried to make a recovery, but....................whining about someone that asks a question because something died after they were told that it was ok to just put something in their tank after a 1 hour cycle?
Granted, some people just don't listen. But........who do you listen to? Who do you know that has the correct answer? You have 100 people telling you 100 ways on how to do something. Which one is right? How do you know who to trust? In addition, the reason that some people don't listen, is that they cannot comprehend the entirety of Reefkeeping. What stability means to them is different to you. Newbies really should be "trained" & licensed to care for stony corals to insure their success. No....I'm not saying that for real, just trying to make a point....just look around at other professions, hobbies, animal caretakers, and you'll see only very, very specialized people can care(or should) for Alpacas, lynxes, servals, monkeys, etc. Now of course, some animals are dangerous, but the specialized care is a huge factor in reefkeeping & other exotic animails. You can learn a lot from a book, web sites, etc., but you cannot learn "how to ride the bike", without doing it. A dog is mostly, duh! They are overall, fairly easy with a little research. Most people have been around dogs some part of their life. Parrots, a little tougher, but with some knowledge there is room for error. There is almost no room for error with reefkeeping and there is 27 different things that you have to watch every day and 50 million things that could go wrong at any time.
I hope i don't come across too strong, just thought I'd say that we were all just newbies once, trying to make things work, trying to ride a bicycle from a book & skinning our knees in the process.
Was that a rant or what?
Ralph
