What's the worst thing....
- Thread starter WatercolorsGuy
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Sup mike. Worst thing I introduced intentionally was adding a pistol shrimp. It was so cute and cool how the whole mutualism thing worked in my head hahahaha....obviously it didn't end that way. Made a nonstop windstorm since I had sand and killed a couple of goby including my yasha and my six line wrasse
When I first set up my tank many many years ago (ok 5 yrs) I was tipping my tank off with saltwater for a month than didn't understand why my salinity was so high haha (darn noobs).
My 30 sps tank I put some rock in that I knew I should of treated or dried out but was impatient and still 8 months later fighting Algea.
My 30 sps tank I put some rock in that I knew I should of treated or dried out but was impatient and still 8 months later fighting Algea.
1. adding anthelia to a tank
2. my first reef was a 6gal pico and couldn't get my phos and nitrates in line because I fed a cube of mysis everyday,
3. pistol shrimp with a yellow goby, covered up a 150$ chalice from wet thumbs
4. talking myself out of a vortech for a year, because I thought that a korilia would be fine.
5. not getting a good skimmer because I didn't want to spend the money
6. not looking for a local club forum for a few years
7. adding clown gobies to an sps dominated display( and wondered why my polyps wouldn't extend)
8. not having an ato for the first two years
9. being cheap
10. and finally, letting my wife make any decision about the tank...
Tony
9.
2. my first reef was a 6gal pico and couldn't get my phos and nitrates in line because I fed a cube of mysis everyday,
3. pistol shrimp with a yellow goby, covered up a 150$ chalice from wet thumbs
4. talking myself out of a vortech for a year, because I thought that a korilia would be fine.
5. not getting a good skimmer because I didn't want to spend the money
6. not looking for a local club forum for a few years
7. adding clown gobies to an sps dominated display( and wondered why my polyps wouldn't extend)
8. not having an ato for the first two years
9. being cheap
10. and finally, letting my wife make any decision about the tank...
Tony
9.
I love Tony's #10 "letting my wife make any decision about the tank"
Find #9 to be soooo true. being cheap costs you more in the long run.
For me, the stupidest thing, well that would be bio pellets, or a variation I tried. When Bio pellets first came out they were super expensive… and were a miracle (the claim). A notion that was going around was to use rice, instead of the polymer, for the carbon source. So I took a BRS reactor, filled it half way with clean white rice. In a week, it turned to mush and had a awful smell, made my corals recess, and made the water milky. I didn’t lose anything but in hind sight – if it sounds stupid…. it probably is.
Find #9 to be soooo true. being cheap costs you more in the long run.
For me, the stupidest thing, well that would be bio pellets, or a variation I tried. When Bio pellets first came out they were super expensive… and were a miracle (the claim). A notion that was going around was to use rice, instead of the polymer, for the carbon source. So I took a BRS reactor, filled it half way with clean white rice. In a week, it turned to mush and had a awful smell, made my corals recess, and made the water milky. I didn’t lose anything but in hind sight – if it sounds stupid…. it probably is.
Added a dwarf angel to my display...figuring that I'd be able to train him to eat from my hand (to make catching him easier) and remove him if he got aggressive or started nipping sps. He decided that eating sps was less risky than feeding from my hand within a few weeks, and I had to tear apart the tank to get him out.
