What do you think reefing will be like in the next twenty years? Innovations, etc...

[Logzor]

Logically everything increases at an every increasing rate. Aquarium technology along with every other will probably follow that path. No doubt about that.

A lot of it depends on scarcity. How valuable will energy and water be 20 years from now? The population will double in many countries in the next 20 years.

Our necessities may become too valuable to waste on luxuries.

The truth is anything could happen. Technology could save us or this lucky streak of living comfortably could end.

[Caragol]

I like the robotic Mag Float idea... A Snailbot like a Roomba vacuum.
All captive caught fish/corals I'm convinced, LED I'm convinced.

How about an LED technology that lets you dial in specific color temperatures for specific corals like a spotlight? Some look better with a 10k spectrum, others a 20k. It'd be unnatural as all get out, but the tank would look great.

[phenom5]

Lasers to instantly zap film algae...in particular wavelengths. Dial a species.

umm...hello...they already have that...haven't you seen Finding Nemo?

personally, i'm waiting for an army of reef nanobots. just dump them into the water and they monitor, and make changes to your water so your parameters are spot on all the time. that'd be sweet.

[KafudaFish]

Deep sea forum on RC.
Some people will have high pressured tanks to simulate the pressures at 5000 meters.

Architethis sp. tank.

Tanks will become more simple after scientists learn the life histories and requirements of many of the species we keep.

Coral reefs will come back due to the actions of the hobby. Sort of giving something back to what we have taken.

[RicGio]

I'm still waiting for the flying car that was predicted to be common in the 1990's!

[Mark426]

Originally posted by KafudaFish
Deep sea forum on RC.
Some people will have high pressured tanks to simulate the pressures at 5000 meters.

Now that would be cool!

[Logzor]

That pressurized tank would be cool until a needle size hole cuts your wife in half.

[RicGio]

And that would be bad...how? J/K

a 1/8'' hole at 600psi sounds like a freight train!

5000m corresponds to 16,400 feet @ .45psi per 1' sooo...
that would be like 7400 psi. A leak in that tank would be incredible!

[Marsfrogie]

incredibly deadly

[hyperfocal]

Interesting question. From a global perspective, fresh water availability is going to be as much of a problem as energy. We're already seeing the tip of that particular iceberg, so I expect we'll get a lot of improvement in water filtration systems, inherited from improvements in waste-water management. Skimmers and biological filtration as we currently know them will be replaced by improved resins and genetically engineered (or lab-created) microfauna that process nitrogen, phosphorus and proteins.

LED lighting is currently a breakout technology, and aquariums are benefiting. I don't know what's on the lighting horizon beyond LEDs, but whatever it is I doubt we'll see commercialization within two decades.

A few companies will bring reef-friendly autofeeders to the market. The technology is there now (imagine a custom peristaltic pump that feeds from Capri-Sun-like packages of reef chowder), the improvements in water filtration will balance the equation.

Of course, wild-caught livestock will be a thing of the past. It's hard to catch reef fish, and harvest coral, from reefs that no longer exist Our tanks will be the reef's Noah's Ark.

[Flint&Eric]

LED lighting. spot lighting individual corals. improved skimmers. bacterioplankton systems improved and be the norm. non-photosynethic coral foods developed. improved controlers. dosing of trace elements, amino acids, and vitamins. larger and larger tanks.

[Marsfrogie]

Oh, I almost forgot one. Reef Central's search feature will actually work and be acessable to everyone.

[skozzy1]

Originally posted by Caragol
I like the robotic Mag Float idea... A Snailbot like a Roomba vacuum.
All captive caught fish/corals I'm convinced, LED I'm convinced.

How about an LED technology that lets you dial in specific color temperatures for specific corals like a spotlight? Some look better with a 10k spectrum, others a 20k. It'd be unnatural as all get out, but the tank would look great.

Great Idea actually,I don't think that is too unreasonable.
Plug and play LED's that are aimable.

[NewMariner]

Originally posted by Marsfrogie
Oh, I almost forgot one. Reef Central's search feature will actually work and be acessable to everyone.

My searches on RC always work...and the search is accessible to everyone already...

[AMIFL]

I guess I have had pretty good luck. I can always get the one on the homepage to work. The one on the left side.

[AMIFL]

I guees I have had pretty good luck. I can always get the one on the homepage to work. The one on the left side.

[TheMcs]

An end to double posting.

[spscrackhead]

lol maybe tunze streams will actually become cheaper? they are getting new competiton. lights and skimmers for sure.

[b.branscombe]

Originally posted by NewMariner
My searches on RC always work...

For someone who doesn't subscribe to the site, trying to use the forum search engine can be an exercise in futility.

[LobsterOfJustice]

Originally posted by spscrackhead
lol maybe tunze streams will actually become cheaper? they are getting new competiton. lights and skimmers for sure.

Haha, yeah right. Somehow with all the new competition, prices are going up...

[FishTruck]

I am hoping for "residential sized" nuclear reactors so we can end all this conservation crazy-talk.

Then, we can move on to supercorals fueled by 200,000 watt metal halides (in supercooled tanks with liquid Nitrogen compressors) which consume CO2 and produce oxygen so rapidly that we can just pave the rainforests turn them into a huge waterpark (perhaps).

Next... reefers who at this point control the worlds breathable gas supply can collaborate and begin demanding tax breaks and huge sums of government grants to keep the planet alive. We will all be fabulously weathly.

J/K (sort of).

R

[NewMariner]

Originally posted by b.branscombe
For someone who doesn't subscribe to the site, trying to use the forum search engine can be an exercise in futility.

And why would anyone want to search the site and not support the site?

[Stoner Tang]

I am not sure what reefing will be like, but I'll be 43. Damn!

[Fishkeeper101]

Basically, I think aquarists aren't going to have to do anything, cept stock and watch.

I'm sure everything will be sold in kits. And cycling and such will be a thing of the past.

And I sure hope that tanks will get more energy efficient.
No more having 2/3 of the water going in to RO systems come out as waste.

And fish better be aquacultured by then. Otherwise we aren't going to have much to choose from.

[Playa-1]

Originally posted by Marsfrogie
Oh, I almost forgot one. Reef Central's search feature will actually work and be acessable to everyone.

LoL, thats a good one.
It's only like $3 per year dude. You should splurge and spend a little on yourself every now and then