So, a good friend of mine and I were chatting just a few days ago, and the topic of the "next big thing" in fish keeping and especially saltwater came up. Now, I know what you're thinking. What the devil could the next big thing in saltwater be? Well, opinions vary, and I was curious about YOUR opinion. What do you guys think the next big thing in saltwater will be?
See, from being on both the retail and the hobbyist end, I've seen some pretty crazy fads. The hobby goes in such strange waves, from tanks filled with pathetic, dead skeletons of acros and gorgonians, to the zoanthid craze, to blasto, to acans, to who knows what else, depending on where you live. There's the funky-percula-morph surge, which seemed to be mostly ridden out on the wave of interest in black percs. I kid you not there was actually a craze in Atlanta over blue mushrooms and Xenia umbellata (I loved it before it was popular!
) We're still in a post-Nemo craze of either people attempting to keep blue tangs in way too small of a tank so Nemo and Dory can "be friends" and people attempting to set up a Nemo tank with everything from the dentist's tank crammed into a 55 or worse.
I know my good friend's thoughts (he's thinking jellyfish and/or faux-planted tanks using various in almost gardening or bonsai techniques like the way Amano works with java moss), but where do you guys think we're going?
See, from being on both the retail and the hobbyist end, I've seen some pretty crazy fads. The hobby goes in such strange waves, from tanks filled with pathetic, dead skeletons of acros and gorgonians, to the zoanthid craze, to blasto, to acans, to who knows what else, depending on where you live. There's the funky-percula-morph surge, which seemed to be mostly ridden out on the wave of interest in black percs. I kid you not there was actually a craze in Atlanta over blue mushrooms and Xenia umbellata (I loved it before it was popular!
) We're still in a post-Nemo craze of either people attempting to keep blue tangs in way too small of a tank so Nemo and Dory can "be friends" and people attempting to set up a Nemo tank with everything from the dentist's tank crammed into a 55 or worse. I know my good friend's thoughts (he's thinking jellyfish and/or faux-planted tanks using various in almost gardening or bonsai techniques like the way Amano works with java moss), but where do you guys think we're going?
