What I hate most about Reef Keeping...

rayn · Dec 15, 2014

The fact that everything can't live together. There are so many cool species out there that can't coexist...meaning more tanks.

hart24601 · Dec 15, 2014

When livestock dies... A huge clam you had for years suddenly dies, or a beautiful SPS colony you grew from a frag decides for no reason anyone can tell, to jump its tissue off the skeleton. New expensive equipment breaking is also a bummer, but not nearly as heartbreaking.

reefwiser · Dec 15, 2014

nothing

timkatz71 · Dec 15, 2014

KorD said:
I hate playing "whats that sound" and then noticing after hearing it for 30 min or more that you ran out of RO water and your pump is gurgling

What's that sound... But a different twist, I set up a water change station but have to change my plumbing, when changing if I forget to shut off the pump (as well as the valve) I over flow my sump... Even with the pump off it syphons and overflows my sump [emoji37]

rumun232 · Dec 17, 2014

Hi guys could someone help me with green algaes in tank ??? The po4 is shown 0.003 but a lot of algaes in tank !

erk · Dec 18, 2014

When something dies/disappears and you play a searching game trying to find it before it rots and you get a huge algae bloom. Dealing with this right now.

Reefer-Madness · Dec 18, 2014

$40 fish that kills, destroys, nibbles, knocks over, and agitates thousands of dollars of coral. Watching him do it and him knowing your looking.

ill get you a**hole fish.

tonymission · Dec 18, 2014

Reefer-Madness said:
$40 fish that kills, destroys, nibbles, knocks over, and agitates thousands of dollars of coral. Watching him do it and him knowing your looking.

ill get you a**hole fish.

Dealing with that right now. $30 fish in this case ... Tomorrow is his day to the sump

kgk · Dec 18, 2014

This thread took me back ... to times I'd rather forget.
The thing that always gets me is my empty bank account. I hate reefing for that.

Electrobes · Dec 18, 2014

The sheer amount of mis-information in this hobby that replicates faster than can be proven false.

Marta · Dec 18, 2014

Having 2 tanks and wishing they could be combined into one big spectacular setting, my niger trigger that also bites the crap out of me when I least expect it, algae of any kind and lack of space for more tanks! I love this hobby, both freshwater and salt and could have 50 tanks and be happy (maybe-my husband would disagree!).

fishinfever · Dec 18, 2014

Trying to keep up with all the new ideas and invensions in the hobby and determining if it works for your application. If it does work, do you buy it or try to DIY it. Very addicti, and very expensive.

jzaso · Dec 18, 2014

Scraping the glass.....my hands cramping thinking about it

mrjlopez731 · Dec 19, 2014

I know what you mean. I have to asks some one to feed the fish, corals and just make.

TheChef · Dec 19, 2014

Electrobes said:
The sheer amount of mis-information in this hobby that replicates faster than can be proven false.

+1

regurgitation is the worst

Diamond Jack · Dec 19, 2014

Tank lids/ covers and carpet surfing fish.

jdl513 · Dec 19, 2014

Having to be a contortionist to pull my skimmer for maintenance.
Only thing more annoying is the fight to get it back into its "just right" position.

maazreef · Dec 20, 2014

Runing out of lies to tell the wife of where the money is going to.

Rob Top1 · Dec 20, 2014

Lots of good ones. I can not handle wet sock so much so my kids even tease me. Not a fan of misinformation either. Swaps with more stores then hobbyists would be OK if they offered deals but what really gets me is when I do what I say I won't. Fall victim to the marketing hype. High priced LE coral. Who are we kidding coral being a limited edition. These arnt numbered and signed by God as limited. To make myself feel better about it I frag and resell at a lower price or just share it. Gave a buddy some ASD Imperial Suns for a fraction of what I got them for. As said business have challenges that hobbyists don't. Its one thing to off set the cost of this hobby another to be business like and not be a business.