Saltwater Tanks: What do you hate?

21reefstreet · Jun 7, 2017

Fin said:
People calling my Hippo Tang - "Dory!"

People calling my maroon clown "Nemo!"
I hate that

Flatlandreefer · Jun 8, 2017

21reefstreet said:
People calling my maroon clown "Nemo!"
I hate that

Or somebody saying you have nemo when are you going to get dory? I have a 25 gallon tank.

taintstick · Jun 8, 2017

Paying others to watch my tank while out of town and paying someone else to move my tank... 7yrs down the drain to a companies incompetence...

telsonman · Jun 9, 2017

I hate the constant worry about the tanks health. Stuff is too expensive to not worry. I come home from work and immediately look at my tanks trying to see if anything is stressed, like acros.

And hair algae.

revhtree · Jun 9, 2017

BULLY fish!!!

Annahra · Jun 9, 2017

Flatlandreefer said:
Or somebody saying you have nemo when are you going to get dory? I have a 25 gallon tank.

Yup grown people that call clownfish "Nemos" set my teeth on edge.

mucky1957 · Jun 9, 2017

my yellow tail blue damsel fish....it's a real little bas***d.

Jlentz · Jun 9, 2017

Annahra said:
Yup grown people that call clownfish "Nemos" set my teeth on edge.

I call them nemo and dory.

I have kids.

I also enjoy triggering overly sensitive people who take the hobby too seriously.

I hate that dory is an idiot that likes to eat expensive LPS.

pirate2876 · Jun 9, 2017

smudged glass

pa1ntbru5h · Jun 9, 2017

random zoa melting

roberthu526 · Jun 9, 2017

Hate spending money...

BlennyKravitz · Jun 9, 2017

Came back to this forum because it just happened to me.

When you forget how many cups of salt you've already put in the RO/DI because you got distracted and now you have no idea where your salinity is at...

Webslinger · Jun 9, 2017

BlennyKravitz said:
Came back to this forum because it just happened to me.

When you forget how many cups of salt you've already put in the RO/DI because you got distracted and now you have no idea where your salinity is at...

that's what a refractometer is for

5altkreep · Jun 9, 2017

That 3/8" scratch in the otherwise flawless glass...but its ok, because the only person to notice it is me - EVERY time i clean the glass!

BlennyKravitz · Jun 9, 2017

Webslinger said:
that's what a refractometer is for

Yeah. But I know exactly how many scoops fit in my 30G bin...

Gaines69 · Jun 13, 2017

The amount of evaporation because my tank doesn't have a top.

Christian H · Jun 17, 2017

A Toadstool Leather said:
The freshwater people get those adorable pea puffers though. I would mention green spot puffers but those are brackish. Always wanted one

I believe you can acclimate them to saltwater ...

mcarroll · Jun 17, 2017

Christian H said:
I believe you can acclimate them to saltwater ...

It's been a long while, but generally speaking I think the pattern they're trying to follow is that of going upstream to be born and migrating to saltwater as they grow up.

I'm not sure but they may be more of a grassy-plain type vs a reefy type in terms of being compatible with the typical saltwater tank.