You can't call yourself a reefer unless you have _________

[ilikefish69]

Funny how this started as a fun thread about what cool experiences you encounter in your tanks and turned into a thread about pests, disease, flooding, and bankruptcy.

I am just loving the fact that they put one of my posts on their emails!! I always scroll thru their emails and I saw this post and was like wait………….I think that was my post!!

still not my favorite post, I liked the a/an RODI argument a couple months back.

the shift in conversation can be attributed to how fast this hobby can turn into a sore spot!!

I have 3 aiptasia babies in my tank. Very very hard to reach. Can’t do nudis or shrimp, got wrasse. Can’t reach with syringe. Rock structure is about 70 pounds, all one piece. I’m just patiently waiting for them to overtake everything. I’m gonna be one of the complainers here pretty soon :/

 

[ilikefish69]

Giving frags to new reefers and watching the face light up! You think I gave them a million dollars.

I love when fellow reefers give me 5 frags for $20. No way they’re making any money that way, but they know I’m gonna just end up bringing more stuff back to them fo’ FREE

 

[dennis romano]

Looked into your tank and can't find the new fish you put in yesterday.

 

[Piscans]

for the price of 1 middle end coral ~$200 i could get a fenwick ateos fly rod and for another $100 i could get a nice reel and line

 

[Garf]

Unless you have owned one of these, ruined it it a sump flooding, then bought another;

 

[Lost in the Sauce]

Thought about quitting the hobby.

This is a very under appreciated comment!

 

[Fishinabarrel]

.....buyers remorse.

 

[Goodersgold]

....woke up one morning and found a crispy blenny on the floor

 

[Piscans]

Super glue on every finger of your frag gluing hand.

a 1st degree burn and a bald spot on your leg cause a super glue tube completely explodes onto your leg

 

[dennis romano]

Looked at your tank and dreamed about something bigger...MUCH BIGGER.

 

[Sleepingtiger]

"Just one more upgrade honey, just one more upgrade. I promise I will make the money back in frags"

 

[reefnfun]

You hear from the Kitchen, UUUMM the blender smells like squid

 

[Dburr1014]

....woke up one morning and found a crispy blenny on the floor

Been there, done that.

 

[Reefvision]

Wake up3am realizing you left ro unit running and race out of bed to find water mess—for the 3rd time!!!.Then you get float valves on your Brute cans -YAY!!

 

[mkmreefing]

RODI flooding your garage or house

 

[Tomsimtim]

...Until you have lost 15 years worth of work , while on a 4 day weekend trip in January in Maryland, due to a power failure, your battery back up running out of juice and seeing your back up generator waiting on the porch to start up for just such an occasion and coming home to a frozen box of death

 

[JulesH]

Tweaking stuff when I should have left it alone.

 

[ilikefish69]

A saltwater aquarium…plain and simple. A freshwater hobbyist isn’t a reefer but depending on one’s definition of reefer, FOWLR guys can be reefers

Great answer !!!! you FOWLR people are your own breed of reefers, many of you enjoying the predators the other side is scared of

 

[bakbay]

…already thinking/dreaming about your next tank build right after you filled your current tank with water.

 

[Jaybeastin]

Felt like a scientist when you first ever test your water parameters with the API test kit and still get confused.