reefing things I thought I would have learned by now
 

1. don't touch that rock - remember last time it took you 2 hours to put the tank back together?

2. don't touch anything before taking the "post your tank shots here picture". clean the glass thats it. nobody will see that rock out of place.

3. don't touch that rock, touching it equals less real estate when the dust clears. and this happens every time you touch the rock.

4. if you touch that rock, forget the picture. There's so much crud floating in the tank now and your fingers are so pruney they can't work the camera

:rolleyes:

I hear ya, everytime I decide to move some rockwork one of your 4 points happens, and I swear I will never do it again, and then again happens. I'm gonna have to print your 4 points and post it by my tank to remember.

you know every time I do touch the rock I think of these things, then it gets overridden by this little voice that says "oh stop, it will just take a second..."

*sigh*

exactly the same voice I hear, or else the "well if I just move this here" glad to know I'm not the only one that hears the voice.

don't poke your finger in the live rock looking for your moray :(

fish ruin corals...and corals ruin fish....how they ever get along in the ocean is beyond me :)

The rock my blastos are attached to refuses to stay put even with a bunch of rock on top of it. I swear when I'm not looking it grows legs and trys to walk away

I always seem to think touching that rock will make things look better so I do and then about an hour later I am cursing and ****ed about touching that one rock...Then I give up because the lights go out on the tank, go to bed (I always seem to do this at night) and put it all back in the morning to how it was before I moved that one rock. :D

Actually I don't do that anymore...I just leave the tank alone now and rarely move anything but it seemed to take me a long time to learn that lesson.

I learned from my first tank...I just aquascaped my new 180 - and epoxyed the rock together. Now, no matter how much that rock looks like it's out of place, there will be no moving it for me :)

You just can't win with this. I kept looking in my tank, thinking "I should move that rock" , but no, I knew better. Never touch the rock, right? Well, the rock fell over, took a third of the tank with it. I shoulda touched the rock....

1. if i balance this frag here thier is know way it will fall behind the rockwork
2. my wife will like the tank so much she wont even care i got another one
3. my anemone hasnt moved in a long time i dont need foam on the powerheads

when I kept fromtosa I touched that rock. It broke leaving a small piece in my hands and 45 gallons rushing out the bottom.

but if you'd touched the rock the same thing would have happened so you were really equally screwed on that one :razz:

Ooh, now thats definitely a worst case scenario :neutral:

And I was on the 3rd floor of an apartment too!

Oh, that sucks!

We moved a rock to find a fish and now "surprise surprise" the rock would not go back where it belongs. We'll soon be touching lots of rocks, as we will be moving over all my angels to the new tank in a couple of days.

What I don't understand is how the tank looks worse everytime I move a rock. And if I move it back, it doesn't fit there anymore. And if it at least "sort of" fits, it looks worse there now than the spot it was just in that was worse than the first place. And if you move it back to the first spot you moved it to, it now looks even worse. And it doesn't fit THERE anymore either. It's like the jigsaw puzzle from hell. No matter what you do, it's worse. It's sort of like the "How many bikes are enough?" The correct answer is "one more." How will the tank look if you rearrange the slightest little thing? Worse.

Here's something I thought I would have learned by now:

If I don't do regular water changes, my aquarium WILL look like crap.

Well, I no longer have a tank but the most important thing I thought I would have learned two times around was somewhat similar to yours.

If I do regular water changes with (conditioned) tap water my tank WILL look like crap. :rolleyes:

Bwhaah Tony, I totally agree. Everything in my tank has shifted now. I have little frag pucks all over the place to position everything as the puzzle didn't really fit back together at all, corals are touching and the pucks are keeping them about 1/4" apart at this point.

Man I can't wait for my new tank :razz:

Well I touched that rock and ended up pulling all the rocks out and re doing the tank.

All because of a damn damsel.


Never cave in when a spouse wants a certain fish, damn damsel.