What Are Your Reefing Pet Peeves?

My number one peeve is when I have everyone over to look at the tank they all feel that they MUST touch the glass with their fingers to point out things! Even after telling them 100 times don't touch the glass..
 
yeah i hate that too.

someone broke a nice chunk off my hawkins that way a few weeks ago.

Or when your sister in law comes over and thinks the magnet on your modded maxi (old pumps I had) is your glass cleaner, tries to "clean" the tank for you, only to find out that its a pump that is now fallen in the sand, blowing crap EVERYWHERE, burying stuff, ect. ect. and now you have to spend an hour "cleaning" up her mess.....with a smile mind you! :cry:
 
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Someone thinking they have the one and only certain coral that came from the ocean. Just because it didnt come from them makes it a fake. HATE IT!
 
It drive me nuts when someone comes over to look at my tank and they go Oh whats this cute little guy and they point to a hermitt crab. I have hundreds of dollars in coral. and a hundreds of dollars in fish, they notice the 50cent crab AHHH!!!
 
It drive me nuts when someone comes over to look at my tank and they go Oh whats this cute little guy and they point to a hermitt crab. I have hundreds of dollars in coral. and a hundreds of dollars in fish, they notice the 50cent crab AHHH!!!

I hear ya. Bubble algae seems to fascinate as well.
 
Great thread so far here are some of my pet peeves

lowballers, when I say the Frag is 40. And they keep asking if I will take 20. Sad to say someone pist me off a while back where the Frag was thrown agianst the wall and I said here u can now have it for free.-)
trendy coral collectors especially the newbies much nice stuff that doesn't have or need a name
future le's lol I am selling a future tyree chalice who no one knows when it will be one. I do love the term evaluation coral it seems more acceptable
imposter corals are another one
booger Frags like how am I going to enjoy that coral this decade
someone calling there frag a clolony or mini colony at that and then they Frag it to get there money back
all nice corals and crappy equipment ticking time bombs and we are supposed to feel sorry for them when it crashes
don't even get me started on peoples tanks lol
and yes as mark said greed!
 
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Great thread so far here are some of my pet peeved

lowballers, when I say the Frag is 40. And they keep asking if I will take 20. Sad to say someone pist me off a while back where the Frag was thrown agianst the wall and I said here u can now have it for free.-)
trendy coral collectors especially the newbies much nice stuff that doesn't have or need a name
future le's lol I am selling a future tyree chalice who noone when it will be one. I love the term evaluation coral
imposter corals are another one
booger Frags like how am I going to enjoy that coral this decade
some calling a Frag growing a colony or mini colony at that and then they Frag it to get there money back
all nice corals and crappy equipment ticking time bombs and we are supposed to feel sorry for them when it crashes
don't even get me started on peoples tanks lol
as mark said greed!


:hammer: All so true Richard :)
 
My pet peeve is when someone comes over and looks at my tank and says "yeah i can do that too" knowing all too well that they won't invest the time,money or research to try and have a balanced system. The last person said " so how much money do you have in this, 500 bucks?", i just said Sure!
 
My pet peeve is when someone comes over and looks at my tank and says "yeah i can do that too" knowing all too well that they won't invest the time,money or research to try and have a balanced system. The last person said " so how much money do you have in this, 500 bucks?", i just said Sure!

LOL! Yeah $500 in LR maybe!
Yeah that is always a bumber to hear, how anybody can do it, but they never do.
Its amazing the amount of time, effort, knowledge, and money it takes to have a successful nice looking reef. Ignorance plays a big part in some peoples minds I think.
I DEFINETELY have a lot more respect and admiration for those reefers that I have seen with a successful, nice looking reef now. The more educated I have gotten about what it takes from my own experience, I realize now what it takes. Prior to that, the peoples tanks that I saw were so clean looking, they made it "look" easy on the outside......
 
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Sounds like Co**s. :D

Ouch!

oh, one more that's worth NOT EDITING:

RACIST REEFERS

is it just one forum that has a lot of these in particular (not this one) or are they everywhere in this hobby? i despise racism. so ignorant. so close-minded.

Never noticed that one and Im a racisim connoisseur, if you will :xd: (Settle down, its a Dave Chappelle quote:nerd:) This hobby is a melting pot of ethnicity. If you're a racist, you're going to be extremely limited. Plus, how can you tell race over reef forums? :ooh:
 
Or when your sister in law comes over and thinks the magnet on your modded maxi (old pumps I had) is your glass cleaner, tries to "clean" the tank for you, only to find out that its a pump that is now fallen in the sand, blowing crap EVERYWHERE, burying stuff, ect. ect. and now you have to spend an hour "cleaning" up her mess.....with a smile mind you! :cry:

oh, that's bad.

Never noticed that one and Im a racisim connoisseur, if you will :xd: (Settle down, its a Dave Chappelle quote:nerd:) This hobby is a melting pot of ethnicity. If you're a racist, you're going to be extremely limited. Plus, how can you tell race over reef forums? :ooh:

yeah, i am thinking of the lounge of one online forum in particular. needless to say, i don't go there anymore. never a comment towards me, but i am equally offended
 
People constantly coming over, looking at my corals and saying, "Those are nice plants." Seriously, does anyone else get this from people? I mean plants? Really? :squigglemouth:

:angel:
 
LOL!!! Nothing ever fits back the same. :(

Happened to me last nite ... after my branching Lobophyllia started attacking my Cynarina (fortunately I was just about to dine) and I had to re-arrange and all Hell came loose ... when I tried to see what's a good spot to place the Lobo ... :cry:

Paul
 
It drive me nuts when someone comes over to look at my tank and they go Oh whats this cute little guy and they point to a hermitt crab. I have hundreds of dollars in coral. and a hundreds of dollars in fish, they notice the 50cent crab AHHH!!!

hahahaha!!! I love this one!!
 
happened to me last nite ... After my branching lobophyllia started attacking my cynarina (fortunately i was just about to dine) and i had to re-arrange and all hell came loose ... When i tried to see what's a good spot to place the lobo ... :cry:

Paul

lol!!!!!!!
 

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