So what's your really bad reef keeping habit?

[H2OBUM]

So my wife made me aware of a really bad habit of mine today. She was in the kitchen making some dinner when I couldn't help but go look into the bucket I use for water changes. She says to me, "Why do you always leave your bucket there full of water every single week?"

Well of coarse I have an answer for that. I never dump out the water right away so I can see what kind of critters I vaccummed out, duh.

So, what's your bad habit that you just can't seem to break?

[SeanT]

Mine is that I put projects off until later that I should do right then.


And the bucket thing.

[corals b 4 bills]

I pile,as in I put stuff on the light canopy and in the garage My wifes laundry folding table starts to become the "Reef Repair Shop".

[Rosseau]

I'm living in a cramped student house right now.

Our house does not have a workshop so I often use my own bedroom for this. I end up with saw dust, acrylic fragments and limestone all over my room. As a result, my non-reef related productivity nose dives (Also, anyone not involved with reefing thinks that I am totally crazy)

[acrodave]

I keep buying stuff for the tank

[Criminal#58369]

I think we all need RKA (Reef Keepers Annonymous) i have slowed down on my spending on my tank i was spending my whole paycheck on it, but every once and a while i have to spend a little something on it at least once a month (not including the essentials for the tank.) I got to admit i get lazy once and a while.

[DrBegalke]

Not cleaning the glass daily... for starters

[ljosh]

I pile - I've got the water change bucket - And I spend a large portion of my income on my reef and reef related interest charges.

[H2OBUM]

it is a righteous addiction

[usmc121581]

I treat my reef like my kids. I also seem to want to by them something to make them happy. I have this thing were no matter what I have I seem to have to make something for it or by corals. Also I am always rearranging the rock work.

[zotzer]

I can't seem to go one single day without putting my hands in the tank for one reason or another....multiple times.

Just one day....one whole day. I need to know I can do it! LOL
Tracy

[usmc121581]

Zotzer

Dont feel bad thats another one of mine!

[pledosophy]

I continually upgrade equipment. If I just bought the nicest stuff to begin with, I'd save thousands.

Oh, my wife leaves stuff everywhere so I just tell her that is where the bucket goes. She puts away the 40 something dog toys (most of which I bought) then I'll put away the fish toys.

Another bad habit. I stockpile equipment. I have enough in my garage to start two more tanks at any minute in time. Not as bad as some, but when I moved to Oregon from Cali last year I sold off all of my extra stuff, so I have aquired that in the last year.

I spend two hours or so a day online reading about fish, another two hours looking at my tank.
I need help

[blackthunda77]

Ohh God, finally i know for sure im not alone! lol

[czerbe]

well boys and girls all the above i think yes all the above........ im getting my wife to read this so she can stop saying you must be the only *&)%$ in the world who does this

[pledosophy]

Originally posted by zotzer
Just one day....one whole day. I need to know I can do it! LOL
Tracy

Don't do it. Last time I tried my blood pressure dropped from lack of salt and I had to spend the next day rearranging all of my liverock just to feel normal.

[czerbe]

she read it and said she does not care im still crazy!!!!

[sruiz]

I forget to put the frozen food away. SHoOT!

[Snowboarda42]

LOL, I keep sucking Amphipods out of my sump with a syringe and putting them in the display and watching my anthias eat them. I'm a dick, huh?

[richofoz]

LOL! I keep taking chromis from my reef tank and feeding them to my mantis shrimp!

[Blown 346]

My bad habit never keeping up on the tank like I should. I wait until I realize I have alot of monmey in this tank, maybe I should take better care of it. I dont do my water changes like I should, or test my water. My big problem is anothe of my hobbies is cars. In the summer is cars, in the winter its the tank.

[Carrera76]

Originally posted by acrodave
I keep buying stuff for the tank

I do the same...lol

[Joe LoPresti]

I am in the same boat as Zotzer, I can't help but reach inside my tank at least once a day to move, adjust or re-arrange something. It drives my wife crazy, she always asks me why I can't leave the poor tank alone for a day...

[guardrail]

i have lost countless... COUNTLESS girls too this hobby. exact quote from one when asked what I was doing tonight and before i could answer ----> "taking care of your fish"... and i have the habit of spending all my paycheck on stuff i want not really need... I have been at this 4 months and i already have 4 tanks 46gal, 9gal, 29gal, 10gal and i am buying things for my 120 already....

[landlord]

I use 1 really good expensive dish towel per day. When they run out I use the Calvin Klein towels. All end up on the laundry room floor. Dripping profusely on the hardwood floors. It's a close toss up