Whats the first thing people notice in YOUR tank?!?

[LgTas]

In order:

"Is this saltwater"
"are those corals?"
"Does the light make the fish so colorful" (referring to my azure damsels and orchid dotty)
"Wow you have a lot shrimp" (all my home caught white gloves that mission all over the tank)

 

[Clownfishy]

From non hobbyists "Wow, the colours are insane"

From hobbyists "Wow, you dont run a sump"

 

[Michael Gray]

That it's BIG!

thats definitely not a problem of mine..

 

[Lowkey reefing]

Id say this guy gets alot of attention

 

[Kai K]

In this order:

1: the gsp covered stone in the front
2: my huge-butt urchin
3: the funghia's

The stuff that is really special to me is usually left unregarded unless I start talking about it.
Otherwise people probably leave thinking why I bought all those ugly toxic-brightly colored ceramic decoration items

 

[Thaxxx]

They notice how my tank matches my posters...

 

[LIreefguy]

How big it is

 

[DangerDave]

The colorful “rocks”…

 

[Gup]

My Emperor Angel and Clown Trigger purchases

 

[Gup]

As for our friends, they love the Orange Sunburst Coral

My buddy, who has only salt water fish likes how I mounted Marco Rock shards to the back glass wall, giving the tank depth of field

 

[PTXReef]

"Nice nemos, are these like live plants....?"

 

[orreefkeeper]

Mine would be the LTA that is about 12" or so across when it fully puffed up

 

[Tmrvstyle]

It depends, the 3 people I know that used to keep tanks notice the growth of larger SPS colonies, the rest say look it's Dory, I tell them that's a boy, his name is Buhdi, don't relay know just not an Ellen Degeneres fan. Loved blue tangs before the Disney movies came out.

 

[McPuff]

"Your fish are all fat"

I think that's a pretty astute observation. :0)

 

[jgirardnrg]

Most people stop halfway across the room and go "woah" when they notice the RBTA the size of their head.

Them: "What do you feed that thing!?"
Me: "Anything it wants."

 

[Johniejumbo]

I have a buddy that says he misses that tree thing I used to have every time he comes by. Still have no clue what he’s talking about. ‍

 

[Ricksreeefs]

"Nice nemos, are these like live plants....?"

I once had one of my friends that's a marine biologist feed my fish when I was away and when she saw the tank she was like oh cool so are those plants alive. I kept ma cool and was like there actually invertebrates and yes they are alive. what the heck do you learn in marine biology?!?!?!

 

[SteveMM62Reef]

My Clownfish pair in the RBT Anemone. Second they notice the Corals, but for some reason a lot of them think this is an artificial decoration.;Bored

 

[vetteguy53081]

The many fish and colors

 

[Dcal]

I once had one of my friends that's a marine biologist feed my fish when I was away and when she saw the tank she was like oh cool so are those plants alive. I kept ma cool and was like there actually invertebrates and yes they are alive. what the heck do you learn in marine biology?!?!?!

it is amazing how many marine biologists i work with, who are pioneers in their field, know 0 about reefs because they are studying things on the complete other side of the globe