[leveldrummer]

harif, i agree, with pretty much everything you said, but my problems are that this forums has recently taken a turn away from conscientious reef keepers, to "my way or nothing" know it alls preaching the exact way to do anything, my posts come off one sided, because i feel im the only one defending the other side. simply trying to prove a point.

we all know with our hobby there are many ways to reach a single goal, for instance... if you wanna keep an acro, there are many lighting choices, skimmer or no skimmer. barebottom? deep sand bed? and all these things intermingle to come to a conclusion, its not anyones place to say "this" is how its done, all you can say is this is what worked for me... ive read about this method, blah blah blah, and let the person asking the question come to their own conclusion. and to everyone making the starwars comments... oldsalt obviously didnt realize i posted that last comment AFTER we had our chat, and im still angry because it was "his" way. i really had no say so. no matter what i said, i was wrong. thats just the way it is, he's right. so even though this is a public forum, its his personal views that are the right way to do it.