Things A Reefer Doesn't Want To Hear

[kathainbowen]

From a well-meaning tank sitter two seconds before I HAD to leave for the airport:
"Wait.... how do I read a thermometer?"

A week into a vacation from a tank-sitter I'd left with enough for four months:
"Hey, I need to run to the petshop to get more fishfood.... what do I get to make the white stuff in the water go away?"

After yet ANOTHER tank sitting disaster:
"Kat, your skimmer had to be taken out back and shot."

[kar93]

Heres another one from a tank sitter:

I think theres something wrong with your tank, theres some brown and green stuff on the glass.

[drouner]

Door bell rings with the kids from next door bering new tank mates from their trip to Florida!

[drouner]

My sister is tank sitting for me which means feeding the fish and topping off the water while on Thanksgiving vacation.

Cell phone rings, it's my sister telling me the tank is not making any noise. Blood pressure sky rockets hearing those words. I eventually figure out part of the problem except the loud popping coming from "somewhere around the tank".

Umm, I guess it was this

[kar93]

Originally posted by drouner
My sister is tank sitting for me which means feeding the fish and topping off the water while on Thanksgiving vacation.

Cell phone rings, it's my sister telling me the tank is not making any noise. Blood pressure sky rockets hearing those words. I eventually figure out part of the problem except the loud popping coming from "somewhere around the tank".

Umm, I guess it was this

Lucky she was there

[drouner]

Okay this is better:

[weaselslucks]

oh wow honey how did you get all those flat red dots on the glass?
always always dip new corals

[kar93]

"I dont like it"

[tkeracer619]

That colored stick cost $50??

[kar93]

$300 for rock!

[reef2]

oh man, why did i have to see this thread right before i leave for vacation on sunday

[Sheol]

" What an ugly Tank!"

" You really like to go Ghetto, don't you?"

Matthew

[kar93]

"is that it?" :O

[kar93]

"I put skimmate in your drink"

[drouner]

Wife - "Your're tank just doesn't look as good as those on RC".

[fraggin]

out of state for 3 days for work.

stn everywhere

"i topped off your tank with the bin that said saltwater only."

1.030 sg
and a skimmer overflowing

[PiXieCath]

Can I eat the shrimp in your tank?

[blueguy]

i had them rip out the carpet

[kimm]

husband: i put that hinge on your canopy lid
me: thanks! all it took was me fracturing my wrist when the canopy lid came crashing down on it!

[mokeyz]

What I heard this morning while I was still in bed - my significant other yelling up the stairs "The tank is overflowing!!!! How do I turn it off?"

Turns out that a huge turbo snail went into the overflow box and up into the standpipe... that was really fun and just a "slightly" auspicious start to 2008!

[pete620]

"This isn't mountain dew!"

(I had been saving skimate in a pop bottle to give to friend as a gag gift to show her what 'real' skimate looked like compared to her seaclown)

The guy who drank some had to be on antibiotics for a week.

[Coderabit2]

"Happy birthday, I bought you a 1 foot batfish. THe LFS guy said it would be fine in your 90."

[kar93]

Waste of money

[McCrary]

Tank sitter: How many fish did you have when you left?

I think any time I leave my house something goes wrong with my tank.

[hyperfocal]

Visitor says, "Those plants look really fake." while pointing at the SPS.

or

Visitor says "Uhhhh, yeah... corals... HEY, this magnet scraper thing is sooooo cool!" while I point out my favorite corals.