What Are Your Reefing Pet Peeves?

Noobies using "Purple Up" to get coraline algae!!! Now it is on the glass and have to scrape it of once a week. As the saying goes, "be careful what you wish for, it may come true"!!!!!!! And "Purple Up" is a waste, it is lighting, and Mg, Ca and Alk levels in propper levels, and a bit of time on a new tank.
 
Mine is knowing that no matter how long your tank has been going good and no matter how much you know and how good your equipment is and no matter how hard to try so nothing goes wrong that one small faliure can cause years of work and thousands of dollars to be null and void due to a tank crash!
 
People who tap on the glass....kids are an exception but once you are told once you better stop!!! Drives me nuts....plus finger prints!
 
Another pet peeve is having no cash for other things (things not reef related). That and the family asking what I want for xmas or a birthday "that has nothing to do with fish"
 
People who tap on the glass....kids are an exception but once you are told once you better stop!!! Drives me nuts....plus finger prints!

God I hate when my buddies do that and then say what they are just fish! Yea you mean a hundred and twenty dollar purple tang! Sorry that's more then just a fish lol that's family!
 
Or the guy with a bag of 10 dollar cheato trying to sell it like it's a bag of some other green stuff :p ;)

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When my kid jumps in the same room as my tank, everytime he jumps I think everything is going to go crashing. That and when I have a new fish I know won't come out if I am near the tank so I feed and watch from a distance and he goes running through just as the new fish is getting ready to come out to eat.

That and the family asking what I want for xmas or a birthday "that has nothing to do with fish"

I like that one, no one ever want to get me fish stuff.
 
When my kid jumps in the same room as my tank, everytime he jumps I think everything is going to go crashing. That and when I have a new fish I know won't come out if I am near the tank so I feed and watch from a distance and he goes running through just as the new fish is getting ready to come out to eat.



I like that one, no one ever want to get me fish stuff.


I hate this also!!! they have an easy one way ticket to get us an easy gift that they know we are going to like!!! and they dont wanna buy it for us.. My girlfriend does this every holiday and b-day.. what do you want??? and I will point out the hundreds of corals i have seen online.. and she still sits there I dont know what to get you.... AHHHH
 
Yep, nothing I hate worse when people don't show up on time or not at all..
AND don't call or PM to let you know.
we all have lives outside our tanks and don't have all day to sit around and wait for you to show up.
 
I hate to see people fragging their corals before they are ready to be fragged (IMO). If you have an acan - one or two eyes - let it grow more than one eye before you start fragging it.
 

IF YOU HAD TO TAKE A REEFING EXAM, WOULD YOU PASS?

  • Yes!

    Votes: 32 45.7%
  • Not yet, but I have one that I want to buy in mind!

    Votes: 9 12.9%
  • No.

    Votes: 26 37.1%
  • Other (please explain).

    Votes: 3 4.3%
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