Recently while perusing the web, I came across an interesting post by Paul B regarding his reef tank now being 44 years old. And while I have been doing this a long time none of the tanks I have ever had have gotten close to being set up for this length of time. After reading the many posts and comments about this great tank it got me thinking about longevity in this hobby.
我知道今天,大多数事情在一部分破裂而不是修复时都会扔掉,长寿是一个被遗忘的概念。实际上,当您考虑一下时,实际上有很多不同的寿命方面可以在这种爱好中考虑。
在寿命方面,第一个方面,可能是最重要的是爱好的寿命。也就是说,有人维持坦克,珊瑚礁,盐水甚至淡水需要多长时间。虽然我们可能会在维尼(Pooh)维尼(Pooh),但不分享我们对礁石的热爱的人,但在这种爱好的任何方面都长时间呆了一段时间确实需要某种类型的人。
众所周知,这可能很耗时,昂贵且令人沮丧。此外,在恋爱关系中,两个成员都享受的成本,气味和混乱很少,因此可能会紧张。此外,从长远来看,生活通常会妨碍享受这种爱好。搬家职业或家庭以及仅仅去上班旅行可能会使长期保持专注于爱好,因为它既不容易将坦克转移到地点,也不容易在您继续前进时继续前进一直是道路。
All of these factors plus many more that I am undoubtedly forgetting all contribute to why so few of stay in the hobby for even close to the 44 years of Paul B. I have known a lot of individuals for over 25 years including Julian, Sanjay, Charles, Scott, Richard, Tony and Eric and we have discussed on numerous occasions how many of the people we have known over the years have dropped out of the hobby over time. The other thing that amazes us is how quickly the time in the hobby has gone by.
Reading Paul’s posts another aspect of longevity was evident: not only has he had a reef tank for 44 years, but the same tank itself has been set up as a reef for that long. To me having a single tank set up as a reef for 44 years is almost unfathomable, no pun intended. The longest tank that I have ever had set up without breaking it down or moving to a larger tank, was my 580-gallon tank and that was set up for the relatively short time of slightly over 11 years and which to this day I still regret breaking down.
考虑一下我已经或听说过的所有坦克,泄漏或破裂了,我惊讶于经受住了礁石时间测试的水箱的质量,持续了这么长时间。我听说过的唯一坦克甚至是那段时间的时间,Terry Siegel的坦克,如果我没记错的话,它几乎是闻所未闻的30多年的时间。正如我上面提到的那样,能够将坦克持续很长时间,而不会生命或让坦克失去结构完整性是惊人的。
I’m curious as to how many of us in the hobby could do this today considering how frequently most of us move. I myself have lived in 4 houses over the past 30 years and most of the people I know in the hobby have moved with similar frequency. Therefore I am pretty certain that Paul’s record, when he decides to get it into the Guiness Book of records will be difficult to surpass.
Fortunately there are other aspects to longevity that we should all look to match or surpass. The first of these is maximizing the longevity of the corals in our tanks. As I travel about and see lots of tanks it has become apparent that very few hobbyists are maintaining colonies of corals for very long periods of time. With the demand for corals, especially “rare” or named ones being so high most corals are fragged as soon as a sellable branch occurs.
我很好奇这些珊瑚中仍有多少珊瑚,十五或二十年后。我说,当回顾一下我仅在五年前的坦克的照片时,很少有那时保存的珊瑚仍然存在于这些坦克中。当然,我们今天看到的许多珊瑚颜色更好或“稀有”,但我想知道这些珊瑚发生了什么,尤其是因为对我来说,甚至一个棕色或绿色珊瑚的大殖民我经常在旧的未命名殖民地休息的地方看到的珊瑚。
在这方面,我会喜欢听到有10岁以上珊瑚殖民地的人们的来信。我也很想看到从过去到现在的这些珊瑚的图片。我很好奇,因为看看我们今天使用的“先进”技术是否与十多年前的技术相比是否在色彩或结构方面变形了珊瑚。
除了看到殖民地的变化外,我知道从20岁以上的原始殖民地中有第四,第五和更大的“命名”珊瑚,我已经看到了Morph。其中之一是著名的Stuber Acroporawhich is quite possibly the firstAcroporato be successfully cultivated and propagated. When I first saw this coral and received a frag it was just brown and I mean a completely brown Acropora.
现在,当我在网上看到它时,它只会有棕色的感觉,而其余的则是蓝色或绿色,具体取决于谁在出售它。因此,我很好奇何时发生这种颜色的变化,对我来说更有趣的是它会改变颜色。由于这种完全棕色的珊瑚随着时间的流逝而变形,所以随着时间的流逝,大量的珊瑚殖民地发生了同样的事情。
就我个人而言,我现在在水箱中拥有的最古老的珊瑚是三个11岁的珊瑚,其中包括粉红色的pocillopora绿桌和绿松石雄鹿。我会给物种,但除了Pocilloporaall of these corals have morphed a great deal over the years. In addition I also still have a small colony of the “Paletta pink tip”, but as has occurred with most of the corals I have kept of the long-term, at times they have died back and then with proper TLC I was able to bring them back and grow them back into nice sized colonies.
每次回来时,这些倒退的结果都与死亡之前的殖民地不同。有趣的是,这是否也发生在其他人长期以来一直存在的殖民地中。
我们的礁石坦克的最后居民将寿命很有趣,这是鱼类的居民。在1986年夏季的海上,法国南希水族馆的大量鱼的年龄被记录在法国。在出版时,看到其中一些鱼的年龄令人震惊,尤其是在考虑当时大多数业余爱好者在任何长时间保持鱼类活力的困难时仍遇到困难。
It would be interesting to see if any of these fish were still alive as well as to see what the records were for the age of various fish since they kept such meticulous records. [Ed. Note. A sixbar angelfish at the Nancy Aquarium is四十岁]。看到这些鱼的年龄与我们今天在水箱中保持的某些鱼的年龄相比,这些鱼的年龄如何。
我知道我们中的许多人可能认为坦克中的一些鱼在周围是理所当然的,除非它是稀有或“喜欢”的鱼。至少我知道我是这种情况,因为我知道我很长一段时间以来一直保留的唯一一条鱼是我的红海富豪天使,而我的黄色唐人是14岁的黄色唐人,而我的海洋贝塔(Marine Betta)则是我的孩子们的名字。16岁的巴克”。此外,很高兴知道我们的鱼的年龄与他们的自然寿命期望是什么。
虽然不幸的是,我们确实会失去鱼类和珊瑚以及不时失去水箱,但我们长期以来保持海洋动物的能力现在处于前所未有的水平,只能继续改善。现在我知道我可以在十多年的时间内保持困难的痛苦,也许我可以证明一个昂贵的人是合理的?至少这就是我要告诉看我财务的人。
Since keeping records of the longevity of all of the things I’ve mentioned has not been done for a long time as far as I know I would love to hear from all of you if you have kept anything for a long time? The only way we are going to know how good we have gotten is to know how long each of us have kept things and if we are good it might justify the price we pay for some of our charges.