YouTube可能是一件很棒的事情，布鲁克林水族馆协会（一家111年历史的鱼俱乐部）很友善地上传并分享了几年来的一些存档演讲者。Gregory Schiemer和Tony Vargas在1999年的一次会议上共同提出了礁石水族馆的问题和答案。这是两个成功的珊瑚礁饲养员，主要是主要是淡水水族馆的观众reef aquariums,with Greg doing the part on livestock and Tony covering equipment. If you’ve been in the hobby that long the video carries with it a lovely nostalgia of firstly a vibrant club scene but also slides of photographs taken on film cameras, old school projectors, and a snapshot of the reefing hobby as it was then, at the end of the last millennium.
Applause goes to Gregory Schiemer as he talks to the audience first about corals, then mobile invertebrates and fish, relaying both the common and scientific names of everything presented on the slides. Even if you know what they are, the speech is delivered in such an educational but constructive way where everything is presented first as a picture, then by scientific name, and then actual experience of every fish and coral, their needs and challenges. It reminds us also that reefkeepers were not only keeping colonies of Acropora successfully back then but also propagating them, splitting them, and passing them onto other reefers.
The featured aquariums were large and impressive, lit by a combination of very warm 6000K metal halides and fluorescent tubes like VHO and the classic 03 actinic. Live rock was still heavily used and live sand had recently entered the hobby and was recommended. A certain Joe Yaiullo was in the audience, now of Long Island Aquarium fame, and he was using活沙and strong metal halides. The systems were sump based, running on the Berlin Method with the two most important features being light and protein skimming. Tony Vargas told the audience to keep it simple and not to add too many gadgets. That was 23 years ago and with the grown-out colonies those American reefing pioneers were showing back then, we would be wise to take their advice and wisdom when running our modern reefs today.
对于Instagram一代，可能很难欣赏黄色的照明和棕色的珊瑚，以及没有主人在他们面前摆姿势的坦克图片。尽管如此，这些还是运作的生态系统和有关如何保持铜带蝴蝶鱼和的建议新万博苹果Leopard wrasseswas just the same then as it is now. It was a Golden Age in reefing presented and attended by some of the original influencers. When “Live” meant live – live and in person, and corals were appreciated for their form and beauty, their contribution to the living world and aquarium ecosystems, not just their monetary value, pop, or provenance.
