Saltwater Tanks: What do you hate?

[five.five-six]

Corraline algae on the glass

 

[savetheocean]

My tank is not 100% right with the wall. You can only see it when you REALLY look at it, it kills me.

 

[Tuffyyyyy]

when i forget to turn back on my ato after a water change. come home from work on day 4 of no ato with a loud pump and a tank full of bubbles

So so so much this!

Is there a limit on the number of likes I'm allowed to pass out in one day? Because I have to be getting dangerously close after reading through this thread.

 

[Maddlesrain]

When my wife walks in the room and point out something is wrong, that I already know

This is 100% my dad for me. [emoji23][emoji25]

 

[silvernblackr35]

The complex unsolved mysteries of the hobby. It's hard to find a solution to a problem when you aren't exactly sure what the problem is.

 

[Sipec]

The cost $$$;Greedy$$$

 

[hatfielj]

As much as we LOVE our reef tanks there are things that we hate about them too!

I thought it would be fun to list some stuff we really hate to deal with when it comes to our aquariums. They can be big things or dumb little things that get on your nerves!

JUST NAME ONE THING PER POST PLEASE!

I'll start.

It's little and dumb but I HATE it when I let water drip down the glass of the tank! ARGGG!

I agree about the water running down the outside of the glass. This is why I hate rimless tanks specifically. It's impossible to clean the inside of the glass without spilling water down the front, which then means you have to clean the glass with RO water to avoid leaving salt water residue outside. Eurobracing prevents it though!

 

[SashimiTurtle]

My fiancée not letting me spend ALL of our income on a new tank, fish, corals, equipment. Who needs a house when you have a reef tank?

 

[Vu337]

aiptasia

 

[nautical_nathaniel]

Running out of room in my nano for new critters and corals and seeing so many new things coming in at my LFS that are actually affordable!

 

[SashimiTurtle]

The fact that you can't stick your arms in the tank after you take a shower... unless you'd like to take another or stay sticky with saltwater with the ever-so-faint perfume of the sea. And of course, that's the exact time you notice something that just NEEDS to be fixed.

I grew up fishing in salt water marshes and off shore in the summer as a kid. That smell is like sweet perfume to me. Every time I go to the beach, when I get to the intercoastal waterway, I have to turn the AC off and roll the windows down and just take in all the wonderful smells of the ocean. No matter how hot it is.

 

[jason.kennedy.98478]

Not having the money for a tank large enough that it requires a boat and SCUBA gear

 

[renato120]

DIRTY GLASS

 

[CODE3EMT]

When people look at my Anthias and say "I didn't know goldfish could be in saltwater"

 

[CODE3EMT]

Diatoms

 

[DMan]

Salt Creep, creeps me out.

 

[Deaf clown]

The prices some people put on corals and idiots keep paying those absurd prices.

 

[albyone]

Lights that have remotes. So I keep getting off light cycles when people watch tv

 

[RobertP]

GREEN HAIR ALGAE!!! @$+!#@#$

 

[Thomashtom]

That the addiction never ends. Never enough coral. Never enough fish. Its like lighting stacks of hundred dollar bills on fire hoping one of them makes it lol

fish scratching with no visible signs of problem and not knowing whether to treat or not. Trying to catch a fish for days and when you finally sneak up and net him he jumps out while raising net out of water!!!!!!