是否曾经注意到有很多文章和帖子，上面有“新手海洋水族馆犯下的十大错误”之类的标题？考虑到新来者通常比他们经验丰富的同行更容易犯重大错误，这是有道理的。但是，仅仅因为滑倒的聚光灯通常集中在新手身上，并不意味着经验丰富的业余爱好者永远不会犯错误。实际上，他们仍然占据失误的份额，其中大部分源于自满或过度自信。
So, turnabout being fair play—and to give hobby newcomers a break for a change—let’s look at what I would consider the 5 most common mistakes experienced marine aquarists make:
1. Failing to test
经验丰富的业余爱好者可能想相信他们可以通过简单地嗅探水（“嗯，闻起来像我20 ppm的气味”来确定水箱中的硝酸盐水平。是时候换水了！”），但事实是，常规测试是的水参数一样重要的先进的爱好者吗is for newbies. True, they probably have a pretty solid maintenance regimen in place, so water-quality problems aren’t likely to develop suddenly. Nonetheless, absent routine testing, problems can still creep up slowly as water parameters drift away from the ideal ranges undetected.
2.合理化牲畜损失
经验丰富的业余爱好者可能比新手遭受的牲畜损失少，但他们仍然不时失去鱼类和无脊椎动物。而且，当他们这样做时，有时他们会比弄清损失的根本原因更好。（“我怀疑鱼的内部寄生虫和无法治愈的虹膜病毒和一个或两个肿瘤。更不用说，可怜的东西可能被氰化物捕获了！”）
3. Succumbing to Boring Tank Syndrome
保存了多年的海洋坦克可能会开始失去一些光泽，并且每年又一年地看相同的标本会导致在Hobby Corlance中称为无聊坦克综合症（BTS）的疾病。让我们面对现实吧，当BTS设置时，我们倾向于让维护滑动一点，间隔水变化gets longer and longer, and we become a little less attentive to our livestock. This doesn’t usually lead to outright neglect, just a slackening of effort and focus that can result in problems such as nuisance algal blooms, the loss of sensitive specimens, etc.
4.“救援”注定标本
有时拥有丰富经验的业余爱好者有时会诱使从当地的鱼类储存的动物中“拯救”，这些动物很难或不可能被囚禁。这里的思考过程是，鱼或无脊椎动物（尽管可能灭亡，但在他们的系统中生存的机会都比在没有经验的新手护理的情况下更大。但是事实是，该特定标本是否最终屈服或最终屈服的地方是无关紧要的。“营救”它仍然等于出售不属于一般水族馆贸易的物种，这意味着将收集另一个标本，不幸的周期将继续。
5.忘记他们也是新的
It’s all too easy for experienced aquarists to forget that at one time, they were newcomers to the hobby and made many of the same mistakes beginners make today. This “selective memory” can lead to a lack of empathy for struggling novices or, in more extreme cases, find expression in the nasty or condescending discourse so common in certain online forums.
