Saratj1 said:
Think about how hard it would be to maintain your tank if you didn't lift a finger to put it together. Especially a large full reef setup.
I suppose though that people that pay "tanked" money have their tanks professionally maintained though.
I agree, as a fire chief I've been in a lot of homes and you'd be surprised at the things I see.
Real quick just to share. We had a smoke condition on a 8 million dollar home in the country club area. These people had what looked to be probably a 400 gallon tank. All plumping and hardware etc was in the basement. This tank was beautiful!! All live corals and fish everywhere. Of course while my guys were checking the house I was speaking to the owners. It turns out it's the husbands "toy" I asked how long it takes to maintain it on and what he does to it, I also asked what some of the corals were. He couldn't answer any of my questions.
He said in broken English, I don't know what anything in the tank is I just like to look at it. I no feed no clean no nothing. The guys come once a week and do the clean thing and the feed fish is timed. I was trying to understand how you could have a tank that pretty and not wanna be involved or know what's on it at the least.
He then told me, this tank tells the company of something is wrong. It calls them and guys come, they have keys to house.
I'm just thinking. Your tank calls them? Must be nice... Must be nice...
Or is it? I take pride in taking care of my tanks and watching things thrive because of what I'm doing, not because of what someone else is doing.
Sorry if this went off topic I just it kinda fit? If not I apologize.
I do watch Tanked and enjoy the show. Like another poster said. I watch it for what it's worth. I don't agree with it and I highly doubt those fish thrive.
Coral inserts? Just takes away from everything IMO.
The builds are nice I watch as well as the humor.