[TheOldSalt]

Oh, for crying out loud...

Yes, there are multiple ways to do most things. There is usually one way which is best, too.

However, that is not the issue here. The issue is that you are getting bent WAY too far out of shape over something pretty lame.

I guess now I have to clarify some things for the peanut gallery. So be it, Jedi.

Leveldrummer isn't complaining about any particular way that I am saying a reeftank should be done on a nut & bolt basis, despite how it sounds. Oh, no, he is complaining that I am against the promotion of NANO-reefing in such a way as to give the impression that it is something super-easy and cheap that every inexperienced Tom, ****************, and Harry should try just for kicks. Strangely, this is something he doesn't seem to quite grasp himself, seemingly thinking instead that I am against would-be nanoreefers themselves, which explains his anger. I just don't know how much more plainly I can say it, really; people wanting to start nanoreefs are certainly deserving of all the assistance we can offer, BUT there is no way I'm going to actively inspire hordes of rank beginners to try it when I know that most of them will go off half-c ocked and fail, and I won't stand idly by and let anyone else do it, either. Why this is such an issue to him I cannot say, but there it is. He thinks I am against "conscientious reefkeepers" while at the same time griping that I am trying to actually act conscientiously. I just don't get it. He says he's just trying to make a point, but I can't see his point through the hostility. I think I almost do, but it's like his point is about something else we aren't even arguing over as far as I know. Or are we? Is that the problem?

I remember when level was first getting started with his first reeftank. He went to so much effort to study, study, study his little heart out in order to make his project a big success, and it paid off quite nicely. We weren't all there telling him to just slap something together and go for it because it's easy. We were telling him quite the opposite, as I recall, and it made him do everything right the first time. A good system, I think. Don'tcha just love irony?

By the way, level is NOT one of the guys saying it's easy to set up and run a nano without a clue. He just gets overly excited when I get on the case of someone who does say such things.