Aye, This is a common misconception, and may very well be responsible for better than half the post on algae and maintenance problems. Popular marketing of lighting doesn't help at all, and both the industry, and hobbiest often confuse SW Reef Lighting requirements with those for Planted Aquaria. Then again they have to sell those lights to somebody now don't they ?

Then there is another group of people who glean cutting edge methods off the internet and assume that it applies to all aquatic gardeners. Pushing the envelope comes with a price that most hobbiest are hard pressed to manage.

It has never been a question of whether they are capable of managing the requirements, but ultimately whether they truely desire to commit the effort, or simply sit back and enjoy the "Hobby" Lots of folks make this out to be much harder than it really is.

I might be one of them ? Prof M