GROSS! What grosses you out the most in this hobby?

[lagoon360]

I hate when I accidentally get tank water in my mouth starting the siphon!

 

[shred5]

Grosses thing for me was when I mail ordered a clam and it died in the bag. When I opened it the stink was so bad I almost lost it. Nothing worse than dead clam..

 

[dbowman5]

i guess gross is in the eye? nose? of the beholder. there are things that are less appealing than others but i enjoy it all. as long as i stay out of my fridge. my standard of gross is a border collie that found the fishing worm container that was in the back yard too long and thought a roll in the contents would make a good fur conditioner.

 

[Patrick.S]

The smell when you frag a mushroom.

 

[LesPoissons]

The smell of a dying anemone

 

[JMR5]

Checking to see if a snail is dead by taking a big ol' whiff of it!;Vomit

OMG especially when it's a turbo that's as big as a small lime! I had to smell a bag of coffee beans three different times afterward. I'm pretty sure the last time was just my memory supplying that gag-inducing miasma, but yeah...no. I'll take a skimmer cup ANY day of the week!

 

[Cstar_BC]

Oh how do I even begin :

Bristleworms - more like fiery nightmare fuel

Copepods - good guys but I hate after lights out my aquarium glass looks like it’s fluid

pulling out algae - somehow only the fingers are capable of loosening it’s grip

snails - I hate when you have to move them and then they stick their foot out and touch your fingers;Vomit just stay in your shell I am trying to help you but if you touch my hand you are liable to be thrown across the room

skimmate strangely doesn’t bug me

spaghetti worms would make me set my house on fire just to be sure

 

[PokeFish]

whenever i put my hand in the tank i wear gloves because one when i was adjusting rocks, a bristle worm crawled onto my hand!!! D:

 

[turkeereef]

True story, many years ago...

I had a tank with a hang on overflow. As with most of these devices, it slowly builds up air at the top of the U tube, and will eventually quit flowing. I stuck a bit of airline into the U tube, left it hanging into the sump. Every once in a while, I'd grab the end of the airline, and suck the air out of the U tube.

Sucked a bristle worm into my mouth.

Yeah, it was as bad as you're thinking.

Back in the day when we worked at SEA WORLD AQUACULTURE, my now ex-wife was starting a siphon from a broodstock tank on a rack above her head. She had to suck the siphon hose with a lot of force to get it started but she wasn't planning for what happened next.....eating an rotten, decaying anemone.

 

[Bapeluso]

The smell of brown jelly disease

 

[BobT]

Skimate odor almost makes me wretch

 

[Ricky_Reef]

The smell of Rod's Food that I forgot to put back into the freezer! Lol

 

[Swell]

The fact that all of the fish in my aquarium are naked...

 

[AquaLifeStudio]

I'll let you all know what I find when I service an outside "Pool filter" that likely hasnt been opened in 6 years.

 

[Calm Blue Ocean]

Bristleworms. They gross me out but yet when I see one I can't stop watching. I have some mighty big ones, too. I've tried traps to thin the population but my bristleworms seem to have developed a high level of intelligence while growing to their enormous size! I realize they do some good work in the tank but I don't need bristleworms that are bigger than my fish! Yuck!

Skimmer cup. The fishy outhouse.

Sick fish. When I scroll through pictures of fish with diseases and parasites and whatnot I get a serious case of the yucks. There was a time when I considered becoming a veterinarian. Then I realized I couldn't deal with sick critters.

 

[Stray_Cat]

GUILTY AS CHARGED SIR

Is there any other way?

 

[Fishko]

My family members dislike the feather duster worms that are growing on my live rock. To me its a poor mans christmas tree rock.

 

[Lkemja]

The smell in the feeding tube after couple hrs. It smells really bad. (Rotten gas) ewewwe

 

[siggy]

Ya the skimmer is rank and dead snails are even worse, but daily its the Nori clip phew

 

[panzai]

Honestly most of it is gross! Skimmer. Sump. Feeding. Poop. I sold my tank but still interested in the hobby. Lesson learned - next time I get a tank I need to hire someone to maintain and clean it