Reef Ramblings Celebrates Five Years Online!
Sunday, February 12th, 2012
Today while I was doing some house keeping on the Reef Ramblings website I was surprised to discover that it has now been going for five years.
The first Reef Ramblings online was published on the 10th February 2007 at 17.05 and entitled, ‘Reef Ramblings Revived!’ and featured the following subtitle…
Reef Ramblings.
or …
A philosophy of sorts, on all things reef …
Reef Ramblings was originally a print column in Practical Fishkeeping magazine at a time when I provided the bulk of its reef content, offhand I can’t recall the date of the first column, probably sometime during 2004 or 2005, and ran until late 2006. I then had numerous queries about what had happened to the column so, as a result of the interest shown, decided to resurrect the column online.
Over the last five years more than 220 articles of one sort or another have been published here, that’s around 44 per year, considerably more than the 60 columns that would have appeared in print over that time.
It remains a fairly eclectic mix of content with news about the natural environment, issues concerning reef keeping, talking about new equipment, commenting on different ways of running a reef, and now features a lot more coverage of the ethics and responsibilities of the hobby.
I don’t know how many of you out there actually read these articles but I hope you have enjoyed them to date and found some value in them, I also hope that you’ll agree that I’ve stayed true to my introduction in the first ever column where I promised an occasional series of incoherent ramblings on all things reef! I just hope its not been too incoherent…
Tim Hayes
Midland Reefs
©2012-02-12