Big Dreams: Be Successful

EVERYDAY IS A NEW DAY: Angsty Amateur Aquarists:

We started off with big dreams, as colorful and lively as the animated movie Finding Nemo, a miniscule version of the Underwater World at Sentosa. We got ourselves a couple of clown fish, blue tangs, damsels, goby, gramma, firefish together with a handful of soft and hard corals, sponges and live rocks with great hope to one day become invincible aquarists. The thing with maintaining a mini reef, you gotta have a manic obsessive streak in you to have the will to constantly check the balance of an artificial ecosystem.

For three years, my house became a marine biology lab, with sticky floors and home-made raw seasalt crystallizing on various surfaces...

For how many of us is this a reality? We all start out with great dreams, and then in our enthusiasm it becomes one big science project of trial and error trying to make that dream come true!

I like how it is put at one point in the post - he says "It was an expensive mistake, we had to correct all shortcomings with more expensive mistakes" - which is quite a reality for many aquarists.

Read one person's attempts at a saltwater setup, and become encouraged to be more knowledgeable about what you are getting yourself into when you get into the saltwater aquarium hobby. Don't let this happen to you, save yourself a lot of time, hassle, and money.

Sincerely,
Jay Kahn