Things A Reefer Doesn't Want To Hear - Page 3

ACBlinky · #51 12/30/2007, 08:26 PM

At 7am on moving day - everything was packed, tank was torn down, livestock were all in buckets waiting to go...

Hubby: "Hi, we're here to pick up our 27' truck"
Rental guy: "Uh... it hasn't been returned yet..."

At midnight that same day...

Hubby: "They said I could pick up our truck at this location, it was supposed to be ready at 7am?"
Rental guy: "Sorry, we don't have anything available. Not sure why they told you to come here, we're not expecting any returns tonight..."

We finally got underway the next morning. By the time we had moved to a new city, we'd lost most of the corals and two of our fish despite our best efforts to keep them warm and oxygenate the water (we even did small water changes with our extra water and had battery powered pumps for the trip). Next time we're hiring movers.

Agu · #52 12/30/2007, 08:43 PM

"Honey, when did you get that big red hairy crab ? "

kar93 · #53 12/30/2007, 09:10 PM

"wheres my yellow tang?"

"daddy look what i caught"

Apercula · #54 12/30/2007, 09:17 PM

"Your anemone was moving around, I think the pump ate it."

Luckily the screen over the intake kept it from getting into the impeller, but it lost a few tentacles on one side.

kar93 · #55 12/30/2007, 09:21 PM

"a fish got stuck in your big green anemones mouth, you know the real expensive one"

Logzor · #56 12/30/2007, 09:37 PM

"Honey, we're pregnant"

Sheol · #57 12/30/2007, 09:40 PM

" Look how pretty all yor corals are, so nice & white"

" Uggh, look all your corals are ugly. Their all just brown.."

Matthew

armagedon48 · #58 12/30/2007, 11:26 PM

something any reefer does not want to hear is only one word "Nemo".

McTeague · #59 12/30/2007, 11:30 PM

"Dad, can we put one of those printed picture backgrounds on the back of the tank?"

mildew · #60 12/31/2007, 12:35 AM

"CRACK" followed by the sound of Niagara Falls from the den while you're sitting in the living room watching SNL.

Zestay · #61 12/31/2007, 12:47 AM

i realised you had a heater plugged into the tank and in the water so i unplugged it so the fish wouldnt get zapped you know like my hair dryer

agsansoo · #62 12/31/2007, 12:54 AM

At night with just the moon lights on.
" Dad, does Gil (Moorish Idol) alway sleep upside down in that tree thingie" ?

ACBlinky · #63 12/31/2007, 01:16 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by Zestay
i realised you had a heater plugged into the tank and in the water so i unplugged it so the fish wouldnt get zapped you know like my hair dryer

LOL at least she meant well!

Something I'm frustrated by lately with all the family and friends visiting for the holidays:

As I'm showing someone the fish, corals, inverts...
"Yah, those are pretty but I really like those green marbles, where did you get those?"

Apparently bubble algae is the most attractive thing in the tank. One guest even thought I'd put them into the tank on purpose, to match the 'red fuzzy rock' (turf algae problem) for Christmas

kar93 · #64 12/31/2007, 09:47 AM

Have you seen this credit card bill

steve1963 · #65 12/31/2007, 09:58 AM

Here one from my wife after I spent a little too much again.

"let's have a moratorium on buying corals".

I never knew what "moratorium" meant before.lol

kar93 · #66 12/31/2007, 10:00 AM

Heres another

"HOW MUCH!"

reefsponge · #67 12/31/2007, 10:06 AM

"Look at all of those red copepods on your acros"

"I changed the water in your tank, would you stop at the grocery store to get more salt"

kar93 · #68 12/31/2007, 10:10 AM

Happy Birthday Heres your present!!!

SCR · #69 12/31/2007, 11:08 AM

Is that a crack in the glass?

Nicholas89 · #70 12/31/2007, 11:37 AM

"While you were on your trip, your tank stopped looking so good.."

Heater malfunction.....it was like 95.

Everything was dead, worms, hermits, all kinds of nasty stuff just laying in there.

Plus they decided not to top it off, (like i told them to) and the water level dropped to almost 50%.

All is well now..

izzypop · #71 12/31/2007, 11:38 AM

friend: Thats a cool fish.....
me: what about all the huge colorful sps corals
friend: those plants?
me: they are corals
friend: nah... I like the fish...
me: I give up

rededteck · #72 12/31/2007, 12:10 PM

At the divorce proceedings.... the house, BMW, and large salt water aquarium go to your wife...

And

...that nice guy you talk to on ReefCentral is moving in to take care of the tank.... and me

64Ivy · #73 12/31/2007, 01:12 PM

"My ex-boyfriend's tank was TWICE as big as yours.

...and come to think of it..."

PogoMonogo · #74 12/31/2007, 01:17 PM

Wasn't said to me, but a customer relayed it to me.

"Daddy, I fed your fish"

-Bottle of Go-gurt next to the tanks.

Everything died.

kar93 · #75 12/31/2007, 06:28 PM

Nice Crab