My favoritt is when you haven't done anything to your tank for weeks, and everything look like crap. Then suddenly all my friends go; WOW YOUR TANK LOOKS GREAT... Sigh :shock:
I was mixing some sugar with water for my CO2 DIY and my wife asked me "What's that for, honey?". I replied "It's for the aquarium."
She asked me if my fish were feeling sick.
She said she was joking.
It's been a week. I'm still laughing.
I sneak jobes sticks into the tank all the time. My dad thinks i am dosing too mcuh fertilizer all the time when i get greenwater. But its always because he takes away my stuff when he thinks i over do it and a week later greenwater. It happens at least twice a year.
I just set up a 20gal for my mom "Listen mom if i have to do this yeast stuff every week it could kill my fish!! i have to have the 200 co2 system"
Actually, with people wih zero aquaria experience, you can't blame them. The folks who really irk are those who know little but think they know much: like those who go agasp when you mention or show them planted tanks containing discus or arowanas (thus bursting their bare tank purism). Even the mere suggestion that you put some hornwort or java fern in such tanks to help improve the water quality seems abhorent.
Next on the list are those who think aloud that they can 'easily get a tank just like this one' simply because they have the dough.
few of my friends really want something, but they cannot afford it or whatever reason. when they see i have it, they say something that really let me feel "SOUR" !!! it happens all the time in our life. dont you agree? :roll:
Actually, with people wih zero aquaria experience, you can't blame them. The folks who really irk are those who know little but think they know much: like those who go agasp when you mention or show them planted tanks containing discus or arowanas (thus bursting their bare tank purism). Even the mere suggestion that you put some hornwort or java fern in such tanks to help improve the water quality seems abhorent.
Next on the list are those who think aloud that they can 'easily get a tank just like this one' simply because they have the dough.
LOL I had fun reading this. Since you guys covered all the things that annoyme, I'd like to add that I hate when they plant with my mag float.... yesterday, after bible study i found out that a few kids were playing with my mag float and the magnet was so strong that it pulled some plants in between the two and crushed them!!!
you're not supposed to tap on glass, i believe it's pretty stressful to them... imagine a giant coming over to your house and tapping your house to see if you are okay. hehe
I had someone ask me if I kept saltwater fish. I told her no, that I liked my planted tanks enough that I didn't feel itchy to start a reef system yet. She rolled her eyes and said, "Oh, so you don't know enough about fish to keep the colorful ones?"
AARGH!
Strike one: Saltwater is NOT more difficult.
Strike two: What the heck is up with the word "colorful" and fish all the time? It's such a tired subject.
Of course, it's always fun trying to answer the usual "So what kind of fish do you have?" I just tell them I have five tanks with a few different kinds in each. That usually satisfies them.
LOl at the colorful part. I know that one all to well.
*Looking in at the heterandria formosa*
"Bahh...what kind of dull fish are those?"
Funny how all the fish flakes say "Intensifies fish's colors"
So, apparently these organisms are little decorations who's only merit is when they have flashy colors.
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