Annoying things ppl say about your tank

[JeepTj]

worst one so far just got today from another tenant .. hey I got a pile of marbles that would look perfect in that tank.... :mad:

 

[nmqtrhrse]

Is that a coral? Oh, it’s a rock.

 

[jayala12]

“What do the fish eat ?”..... hello?!?!? FOOD!!!!!!!

 

[Will Gorgan]

Anemones ARE NOT CORALS!!! It drives me bonkers when my family over my house calls the anemone a coral, or my clownfish a Nemo!!!!

 

[Eve]

I thought Nemo had a small fin?

lol [emoji23]

 

[Carl Eckelman]

They ask how hard it is to put all the plastic plants in

 

[Carl Eckelman]

They ask how hard it is to put all the plastic plants in

 

[Carl Eckelman]

I always have to feed a flower anemone or show a coral feeding or they think they are fake?

 

[tnyr5]

*friend looks at $2000 fish* "Huh, I thought it would be prettier than that."

 

[carmodpg]

“Oh, I thought corals were PLANTS”

Or

“Those are alive??? I thought those were FAKE corals”

Can’t tell you how many times I have to tell people everything in my tank is alive. I just the same line every time... “even the rock is alive.” Never fails, 2 seconds later someone will point to a Leather coral and asked if it’s “actually alive..”

 

[jccaclimber]

My LFS customers keep suggesting they move the floating neon plastic jelly fish from the little fish holding tanks to the big frag/coral system because they would look better there.
Different customers complain that they miss them when they get taken out.

An LFS in a previous state moved the same fake jellyfish from the reef where they kept getting in the way of bagging frags/mini colonies to the planted freshwater display. In no way did doing so decrease the amount of "Are those real?". My favorite answer: "Yes, they are, and you have no idea how hard it is to tie that fishing line to them without hurting them."

 

[raylinds]

I am still in the process of preparing to set up my tank, but I have the equipment sitting in my living room. My 110 gallon tank is on the floor and the 37 gallon sump is sitting on the stand. I get a lot of confused expressions as the look at the tank, then the sump and back to the tank- 'So you are setting up two tanks?'

I did get one person saying I need to get a Dory fish. Me: "Sorry, I would love that but a 110 gallon tank isn't big enough for a Hippo Tang." Mostly, though, they are anxious for me to get the tank set up (as am I), which is cool. I explain that it'll be a while before it actually gets to the point of looking like a reef.