reefing things I thought I would have learned by now

GreenSpottedPuffer · #1 01-07-2009, 04:55 AM

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.

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.

tlo · #2 01-07-2009, 05:32 AM

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

Aquattro · #3 01-07-2009, 05:46 AM

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....

i have crabs · #4 01-07-2009, 12:47 PM

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

lastlight · #5 01-07-2009, 01:56 PM

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

christyf5 · #6 01-07-2009, 03:09 PM

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Originally Posted by lastlight

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

Ooh, now thats definitely a worst case scenario

lastlight · #7 01-07-2009, 03:42 PM

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

christyf5 · #8 01-07-2009, 03:09 PM

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Originally Posted by Aquattro

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....

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