Most miserable reefing chore?

[BigJay]

What is your least favorite chore in your routine of keeping a reef?

Mine would have to be a close tie between manually removing valonia, and cleaning out my GFO reactor every other week.

I used to dread daily manual two-part dosing, now I just dread opening up the calcium reactor every 4-5 months so it's no big deal.

The rest of it really doesn't bother me, including cleaning the skimmer cup.

 

[sruiz]

cleaning the glass, but well worth it.

 

[A.VOID]

salt creep clean-up and back glass scraping are a tie

 

[sedor]

+1 on the salt creep. The glass cleaning is annoying because I always seem to find more after i've spent a while cleaning, but its also very rewarding to stare into a crystal clear tank after all your hard work.

 

[coral_lagoon]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=15424716#post15424716 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by sruiz
cleaning the glass, but well worth it.

X2..

 

[doublejesus]

picking up stuff that falls down (frags, clips, snails etc...) this of course will change when i move to my bigger tank next month and i tie everything down better (cept the stupid snails).

 

[amkelly802]

you can always tie the snails down

 

[jb61264]

starting a siphon on a water change and taking a little drink as well...

 

[discocarp]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=15424904#post15424904 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by jb61264
starting a siphon on a water change and taking a little drink as well...

Put more hose in the tank than you need (underwater). Put your thumb on the hose. Pull out the hose so only the end is just barely underwater and hang the rest over the side (into a bucket or whatever). Release thumb.

My least favorite chore was water changes until I automated them. Now its probably testing. I don't know why, but I find it really irritating to test my params. I still do it - just sayin...

 

[lostintheocean]

do you mean you drink water when starting a siphone? why would you have to suck start to get a siphone, i am just curious

 

[Husky_1]

I hate rinsing GFO/Carbon....

Also hate lugging my RODI to my ATO..

 

[Shane Hoffman]

Im going to go with lugging 5 gallon pals of RO wate rup from basement tied with scraping glass......I have to keep everything under my tank and cant install an ATO.....

 

[stripevt]

Constant guarding of the tank from my son. Cheerios toys etc.....

 

[rando45]

i get tired of cleaning the algae down at the very bottom of the glass, right near the sand, especially coralline, very hard to scrape off

 

[surge19us]

Cleaning the nasty stinky sludge twice a week from my skimmer. Only takes 10 minutes but it's dirty work.

 

[Znut Reefer]

Mine is rinsing carbon, and toting RODI water to the ATO.

 

[SWINGRRRR]

Cleaning filter socks.

 

[Juruense]

skimmer cup

 

[patsfan1130]

It's a tie between lugging RO/DI water up from the basement to fill my resevoir and cleaning the algae that runs along the sand line

 

[KafudaFish]

Throwing away dead animals due to equipment failure like the suction cup failing and the powerhead landing on a fish or other expensive goodie.