thecodingart
Active Member
Over the past year, I’ve gotten pretty knee deep in this hobby.
WWC and Top Shelf Aquatics are down the street from me where I’ve made friends at both and have become very aquented with the employees .
I was lucky enough to make friends from Saltwater Aquariums and quite a few other well know businesses across the US at different large reefing events and trade shows.
Myself, I have 2 successful tanks (still learning about certain types of coral care) and a 3rd in the making ranging from nano tanks to 300 gallons tanks.
My wife posted something earlier today where she had a loss in her nano tank — and was grilled from an ammonia spike when posting parameters as she had a loss in the tank (she was being told her tank wasn’t cycled ).
One thing I have come to learn from each and every connection at these popular places, where almost all of you have shopped at or asked advice from, is that not a single one of these people like posting in social media forums (they mostly avoid them). Why you might ask? Because these communities come across as toxic and ignorant. My primary target is around well known Facebook groups to be clear.
It seems rather help individuals, most people in those forums like to equate tenure to a sixth sense where they can assume as they want and assert irrelevant and opinionated information as facts — while lacking context.
The crap my wife took was a good taste of that — and man do I hope these communities fix their toxicity.
P.S. I dont actually think R2R has a General post area — which is surprising.
WWC and Top Shelf Aquatics are down the street from me where I’ve made friends at both and have become very aquented with the employees .
I was lucky enough to make friends from Saltwater Aquariums and quite a few other well know businesses across the US at different large reefing events and trade shows.
Myself, I have 2 successful tanks (still learning about certain types of coral care) and a 3rd in the making ranging from nano tanks to 300 gallons tanks.
My wife posted something earlier today where she had a loss in her nano tank — and was grilled from an ammonia spike when posting parameters as she had a loss in the tank (she was being told her tank wasn’t cycled ).
One thing I have come to learn from each and every connection at these popular places, where almost all of you have shopped at or asked advice from, is that not a single one of these people like posting in social media forums (they mostly avoid them). Why you might ask? Because these communities come across as toxic and ignorant. My primary target is around well known Facebook groups to be clear.
It seems rather help individuals, most people in those forums like to equate tenure to a sixth sense where they can assume as they want and assert irrelevant and opinionated information as facts — while lacking context.
The crap my wife took was a good taste of that — and man do I hope these communities fix their toxicity.
P.S. I dont actually think R2R has a General post area — which is surprising.
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You’ll have a handful that claim to give help but just want to type arrogant things and a handful that will gladly take the time out of their day.
