The WORST advice EVER!!!!

[MnFish1]

I’ve probably received a lot of bad advice but I do my research to not follow through with 1 persons opinion.
Rule 1 of righting a report for school. Have multiple resources!!! And footnotes.

But common are “yes it’s reef safe”. 2 minutes on my phone and then show them what they almost sold to someone. The face they make is priceless. Research what you’re selling. Trolls

I agree with your post - I would suggest Rule two would be a grammar checker :):):). Note I'm not one of those people that correct spelling - its just it was funny that you happened to use it in a 'writing' context:). Totally meant in fun

 

[ourcoralreef]

Fresh water dip your inverts

(I gave this advice to someone by mistake i Had stuff on my mind and wasn’t thinking)

Good thing they caught it before it killed all his inverts

 

[TVV]

Blue star clove polyps are cool. You can keep them at bay with scrapping them off when become an annoyance. Bs, they are cool but blow around and invade like weeds!!!!

 

[sfin52]

Blue star clove polyps are cool. You can keep them at bay with scrapping them off when become an annoyance. crap, they are cool but blow around and invade like weeds!!!!

Send them to me

 

[vetteguy53081]

" you can buy this bottle of Bacteria and stock the tank the SAME day " !!!!
Heck, it works for "Tanked" guys. . . .LOL

 

[scardall]

UV sterilizer will cure ICH.

 

[1stNoel]

"You want 0 phosphates and 0 nitrates"...

and then I proceeded to spend my first few years of reefing unknowingly starving corals!

 

[DenverSaltyFarm]

“You don’t need water changes my tank is doing fine without water changes”

Worst advice to give and I tried that as a new reefer. Weekly water changes are what I attribute to my tank looking great

 

[Alex.M.]

I have gotten three that absolutely kill me:
1.) "All fish can be trained to live in salt or fresh water" - kid in my college class
2.) "All fish can be housed together you just have to watch them carefully and put in a bully box if needed" - LFS employee and petsmart enployee
3.) "You dont need a QT. That's just for over protective ***** just toss them in if they look fine." - LFS Owner

 

[BmackCW]

My friend told me to buy ALL my live rock from the local LFS at $20/lb, that it was the only way to start a tank.

 

[Alex.M.]

My friend told me to buy ALL my live rock from the local LFS at $20/lb, that it was the only way to start a tank.

Omg I got the same thing from my LFS! Plus i need to added a few fish to speed up the process

 

[Sleepydoc]

There is nothing wrong with cycling with a clown. (especially if you use fritz or another bacteria - or?)

If you're doing that, I would say you're cycling with Fritz/Dr. Tim's, and not with the clown.

 

[nmqtrhrse]

"Don't put any fish in with that clown that I gave you. I've had him 13 years and he kills everybody that he ever comes across." And JAC is now in a nice size reefer tank with four friends. One of which is another clown. They've been doing fine for over a year together.

 

[MnFish1]

" you can buy this bottle of Bacteria and stock the tank the SAME day " !!!!
Heck, it works for "Tanked" guys. . . .LOL

It has worked for me multiple times.... Not to stock a whole tank - depending on what that means...

 

[MnFish1]

If you're doing that, I would say you're cycling with Fritz/Dr. Tim's, and not with the clown.

You are absolutely correct - the clown is merely providing the ammonia:)

 

[brad shawn]

Great advice if your fish also happens to be a vampire.

Or Italian...?

 

[Lolipop0912]

From my father!
“That tang will be perfect in your ten gallon tank with your clownfish! What could go wrong?”

Before the tang police arrest him: my father doesn’t know the first thing about fish... I’ve tried to explain why a tang wouldn’t work... but he apparently doesn’t get my logic.

 

[TVV]

Send them to me

Kidding right???

 

[sfin52]

Kidding right???

One person weeds are another's flowers. Ive got a fowlr that I dont care if they over take the tank

 

[Abby]

I’ve gotten some seriously stupid advice, once while I was cleaning a saltwater tank in public a random know it all said “If you had plecos in there you wouldn’t have to clean that.” I smiled and instead of bothering to mention that tanks with algae eaters do still need maintenance, just told him thanks but unfortunately it’s a saltwater tank. He insisted “Yeah. They have saltwater plecos.” And I just thanked him for his suggestion and went back to work.