Gregcoyote
Aquarium Advice Addict
I like that commercial. My friends remind me I was like that when I had my fish stores. It isn't necessarily profitable, but as those that know me on this forum, I have some difficulty in keeping my mouth shut.
I like that commercial. My friends remind me I was like that when I had my fish stores. It isn't necessarily profitable, but as those that know me on this forum, I have some difficulty in keeping my mouth shut.
Exactly why I got out of the business. It was exciting in the beginning, but It made me sick how many corals went through my tanks. The reality is, just being in this hobby is destroying the reefs. Aquaculture or not, eventually, your beautiful tank is going to provoke someone else to start one of their own....and so on, and so on....I am a diver and have very mixed emotions about my own hobby.
It's really hard. Not that long ago, I was the guy who wanted the school of tangs in the 55 gallon. We all follow a learning curve, I just hate to see semi loads of fish daily going into the land fill world wide. The environmentalist will shut us down if we don't do a better job of maintaing and creating our own stocks. I am a diver and have very mixed emotions about my own hobby.
I don't know about anyone else, but I believe in Karma...what goes around, comes around.
These guys know that they are the grim reapers of the hobby and they are just going for instant gratification and promotional advertising. Someone should do a story and follow up on their tanks to get an understanding out there, of what really happens to the fish after the show concludes.
I think their rising star would diminish rapdily, and rightly so.
I don't watch tv so not familiar with this show but scanning through this thread which caught my attention this sounds like a good case for an investigative reporter. A good story broadcasted would quickly bring the "glory" down or at least raise some questions and public awareness.
I agree with you. I just hope that a reporter would show both sides of the story. What if cases where a lot of fish die are very few, and when they do it is when the client demanded to have it set up right away. If the news gets ahold of it it is unlikely we will hear a fair representation.
I always wonder how they access the tanks to do water changes, etc. I'm sure someone is hired to maintain the tanks. I have a 20 gal and complain about water changes at times!!! So I can't imagine the work needed for a huge tank such as the church's.