bobby, it wasn't a personal attack. Your point on impulse buying is right on target. However, it seemed to me (maybe incorrectly) that newbies were putting things in their tank & asking you why it died. On that point alone, how can we (actually you) get through in a manner that relates to 18, 20, 40 year olds to understand the complex nature of reefkeeping? How can you train
LFS to teach their customers? If I am at the
LFS talking with someone that "seems to me" to know what they are doing, that in person "salesperson" is going to have way more effect than you online.....well, most likely anyway. There has to be a "cultural" change in this hobby to teach some basics to get people started ONE WAY (ok, maybe 2). How can we expect anything, when it takes a year just to figure out whose advise was right in the first place? Ok, maybe you had friends in the hobby, so you didn't go through it, but i didn't (I'm not bitter....just explaining k?), so who do I trust? How can you come up with 1 great way to start the first year as a
FOWLR? Future soft coral? future SPS? Can't we simplify this complicated hobby for the newbie?
