What grinds your gears? Most annoying Reefer forum behaviors.
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After I discovered Reef2reef I quit asking on FB, and actually get good advice!
As far as what grinds my gears, posters who continually attack things, LEDS, scrubbers etc and make threads hard to read. I enjoy trying to learn new things but some make that hard!
Maddlesrain
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YES. THIS RIGHT HERE. THANK. YOU. AHCK!!!
Maddlesrain
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It makes me cringe a little when people straight-up hijack someone else’s thread. It’s fine if you post a relevant question pertaining to the topic at hand, but if you have side questions or enough questions to fill ongoing pages, just make yourself a new thread!!
Maddlesrain
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Another thing. This is in regards to sales. When people ask “how low will you go?”
Edit: A conversation I had with someone over the summer while trying to sell my old tank. I laughed a little too long over this... as did a couple family members and friends lol
I just don’t get it. What were they expecting me to say? “Yes, I’ve had multiple people say they’d take my 180 gallon aquarium for $50, which I will not except. I have also gotten copious amounts of scam messages telling me they’ll send a check in the mail!”
Edit: A conversation I had with someone over the summer while trying to sell my old tank. I laughed a little too long over this... as did a couple family members and friends lol
I just don’t get it. What were they expecting me to say? “Yes, I’ve had multiple people say they’d take my 180 gallon aquarium for $50, which I will not except. I have also gotten copious amounts of scam messages telling me they’ll send a check in the mail!”
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I agree 100%. I enjoyed your post and would not have seen it if you would have posted it elsewhere.
chefjpaul
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Hahaha..Another thing. This is in regards to sales. When people ask “how low will you go?”
Edit: A conversation I had with someone over the summer while trying to sell my old tank. I laughed a little too long over this... as did a couple family members and friends lol
I just don’t get it. What were they expecting me to say? “Yes, I’ve had multiple people say they’d take my 180 gallon aquarium for $50, which I will not except. I have also gotten copious amounts of scam messages telling me they’ll send a check in the mail!”
I have a guy calling me out for not selling him a nem, because he doesn't have a light adequate enough for soft corals....Im just a %%$#@!
(Not on R2R, but still).
danreefman
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Hate coming on and seeing a bunch of crying. People always crying about the price. Get out of the hobbie if price is a problem!!
FlyinBryan
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It drives me crazy when someone, generally new, trashes a company or product by name. I don’t use xyz because a snail dies in my tank. Or some insane small element in your tank is “too high” when it’s totally irrelevant.
This is a small business overall, you’re trashing someone’s product for your own small pet peeves is a disgrace. We need product ingenuity we need people coming online with new products and you trashing it for really no reason vs just constructive criticism how it could be made better. I appreciate all of the vendors that work hard to make this a better easier hobby. Show a little deference.
Just thank people when they help as well.
Or really complex questions when it just comes down to better flow and adding a little gfo/carbon.
Not really researching on your own.
I have no one poster in mind.
Soap box complete.
And I am smiling jsyk. Tone is hard to convey.
This is a small business overall, you’re trashing someone’s product for your own small pet peeves is a disgrace. We need product ingenuity we need people coming online with new products and you trashing it for really no reason vs just constructive criticism how it could be made better. I appreciate all of the vendors that work hard to make this a better easier hobby. Show a little deference.
Just thank people when they help as well.
Or really complex questions when it just comes down to better flow and adding a little gfo/carbon.
Not really researching on your own.
I have no one poster in mind.
Soap box complete.
And I am smiling jsyk. Tone is hard to convey.
FlyinBryan
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This!! This hobby is extremely challenging being done on the cheap for the long term.
I have spent a lot of money on high quality products that have lasted me many years!!
It’s an expensive hobby but a great one!!
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Amen ahhahah
Sea MunnKey
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I would take the phrase "cheap" with a grain of salt as some of us may not have the steady financial income or basically students or such ... and yes they are some cheapos/price hagglers out there too but I would just ignore and move on. No point in stressing out cuz' my hair is greying out way too fast nowadays ... ;Woot
SallyWho
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This entire thread is fantastic! Since I'm a newb- pretty new to R2R and still don't have a tank yet- I've now read 11 pages of "How not to cheese off reefers!" 
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Though, if I'm allowed to have a pet peeve for a hobby I'm only peripherally involved in at the moment...what bugs me a bit are those who do absolutely no research whatsoever and expect to have everything go perfectly from the start. I've been wanting a reef tank for over 7 years, but I haven't wasted those years just "wanting." I've been lurking this forum, watching youtube videos, and reading blogs in preparation. I feel I have a decent base of knowledge to get started. Heck, some of the questions in the "New to Saltwater" forum I feel I could probably answer, but I don't because I have no practical experience at all.
;JoyfulThough, if I'm allowed to have a pet peeve for a hobby I'm only peripherally involved in at the moment...what bugs me a bit are those who do absolutely no research whatsoever and expect to have everything go perfectly from the start. I've been wanting a reef tank for over 7 years, but I haven't wasted those years just "wanting." I've been lurking this forum, watching youtube videos, and reading blogs in preparation. I feel I have a decent base of knowledge to get started. Heck, some of the questions in the "New to Saltwater" forum I feel I could probably answer, but I don't because I have no practical experience at all.
“What is the brown stuff all over my rocks”
And in not doing so you've avoided my pet peeve. Bugs me when someone is clearly new to the hobby and is posting about them just cycling their tank. Then days later answering questions they clearly have never had experience in, but they've read about it once.
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