PET PEEVES....list them here

[TampaReefer79]

+1,000,000

My pet peeve as well. Every seller who rockets to 50 posts, and at day 91 makes a camp in the selling forums, even after months of selling several times a week and rarely (if ever) posting in any of the site's "content" areas, angrily tells us that we:

A) are picking on them,

B) by enforcing our pretty straightforward and generally well-known commercial rules we have gotten so big that we have forgotten about the little guys (our no-nonsense rules are one of the main reasons our site has gotten where it is today), and finally

C) the people whose selling privileges have been rescinded are all true altruists, just trying to offer fellow reefers a good deal (even if they are buying corals and chopping them into tiny pieces as soon as they can, or routinely cruising garage sales and Craigslist looking specifically for things to sell here).

But I'm not commercial! I haven't made any profit (once you factor in all the costs)!

Yeah, but you are EXACTLY the reason we have the rules we have. Once you start looking at corals and equipment for their resale value on RC, you're not here for the right reason anymore. You're using RC's resources to reach customers, and not supporting RC's actual mission (the exchange of reef-related information). Sell your goods on Craigslist - it's what they're designed for.


So yeah, I have a pet peeve!

Kevin

5 pet peeves

:lol::lol::lol:


This stuff in bold above is FUNNY. I actually know someone like that. He's addicted to CL as much as he WAS here. He has moved on. lol

 

[Soultwater]

I absolutely get furious when some snot nosed kid tries to explain anything to me about the care of reef animals. Note: some snot nosed kids do know more than I do but I havent seen one in a long time.
Or
When you walk in the store for the first time you immediately know you know more about the care of the animals than the owner.

 

[steelhead77]

People who INSIST that, at the first sign of ich, you MUST remove all 6 of your fish from your 90 gallon tank and place them all in 10 gallon QT and leave your tank fallow for 6-8 weeks, otherwise you're doomed to have ich in your DT forever and ever.

 

[amheck]

I hate when people say they are building a cube and then give dimensions like 24 x 24 x 18

 

[username in use]

I hate when people say they are building a cube and then give dimensions like 24 x 24 x 18

yes, that's 3rd grade stuff.

 

[E.intheC]

I hate when people say they are building a cube and then give dimensions like 24 x 24 x 18

:lol: those are the exact dimensions of my 'cube'. I call it a cube because the bottom pane of glass is a square.

As long as it's close, I'm fine with it, as are most people that I've seen and talked with, including tank manufacturers..

 

[username in use]

ask a mathematician

 

[amheck]

:lol: those are the exact dimensions of my 'cube'. I call it a cube because the bottom pane of glass is a square.

As long as it's close, I'm fine with it, as are most people that I've seen and talked with, including tank manufacturers..

You call is a cube cause its a square? :lolspin:

Wasn't picking on your particular tank dimensions, and its not like this keeps me up at night. I just find it amusing. I guess it was all those math classes I took in college.

 

[Oldude]

When you walk in the store for the first time you immediately know you know more about the care of the animals than the owner.

Yes I agree and also when their inexperienced staff tell you information that you know is false and then want to argue about it. :rolleye1:

 

[Moos3]

Paying 80$ For a stick, with hair...that I have to feed.

 

[RVANANO]

Some good ones here I think mine would be "Hey you know you have a scratch on your glass right?"

Biggest not tank pet peeve.... When stupid people vote!!!

 

[jenglish]

Having the same arguments in NTH every day :lol:


Or when I see really really basic questions being asked in either Reef discussion, Chemistry or Advanced Topics. What to test to see if your tank is cycled is technically a chemistry question :bigeyes:

 

[E.intheC]

You call is a cube cause its a square? :lolspin:

Wasn't picking on your particular tank dimensions, and its not like this keeps me up at night. I just find it amusing. I guess it was all those math classes I took in college.

I know exactly what you're saying. You don't even need college math classes to understand it. A "cube" requires all 3 sides (l x w x h) to be exactly the same.

However, in this context, "close enough" to me is just fine for the loose definition I'm using.

...It bothers me when people use terms like "cheeto" or 14k instead of 14000K (or butcher the word actinic)... Or say "pump xyz is quite". I want to reply back "it's quite what...?"

..But it's a hobby so I don't let it bother me. If someone says "I use 14k bulbs", I still know what they're talking about.

 

[jenglish]

how about 14kK? :jester:

 

[username in use]

how about 1.4kK k

 

[100%hydrophylic]

wouldn't it technically be 14KK?

edit: gah! come back from the bathroom and 2 ppl posted same exact thing lol. woopsie! i guess i should start refreshing pages before i respond

 

[KafudaFish]

1. If I stick my hands in the tank someone needs something. If I am the only one at home and stick my hands in the tank the phone rings or I get a text.
2. Every time I save money for something for my tank and I am thinking of going to the store my wife tells me I just bought something. Oh really how much? Yes I guess it is ok (what am I going to do?). The last time it was $300 for basketball tickets. The time before that it was $1800 for a hotel room upgrade.

Usually she informs me during #1.

 

[timdam]

I know exactly what you're saying. You don't even need college math classes to understand it. A "cube" requires all 3 sides (l x w x h) to be exactly the same.

However, in this context, "close enough" to me is just fine for the loose definition I'm using.

...It bothers me when people use terms like "cheeto" or 14k instead of 14000K (or butcher the word actinic)... Or say "pump xyz is quite". I want to reply back "it's quite what...?"

..But it's a hobby so I don't let it bother me. If someone says "I use 14k bulbs", I still know what they're talking about.

dang, those are my dimensions too. should i start calling it a rectangle tank now?

 

[jenglish]

Usually she informs me during #1.

My wife usually wants to talk to me when I am doing #2 :lol:

 

[ziege]

Some of this is pretty picayune. If someone can pay 25K for a car, they can certainly have 14K lamps over an aquarium. Context rules. And cubes... I'm oddly uncomfortable with it but then I realize that calling ANY tank, any man-made thing, a cube is just an approximation and I calm down. I once built a tank that I never thought of as a cube... it was all rectangles... but it was more cube than a lot of what people call "cube" tanks today and I just roll with it.

My #1 peeve is going into a LFS and seeing tanks full of dying coral (goes for fish too but coral is more common). Or maybe it's going a week later and seeing tanks full of healthy new coral and knowing that in a month or two they will be doing the same dance all over again. I don't know why it bugs me with coral when every grocery store does the same thing with bananas but it does. It would be like going behind a pet store and finding piles of dead cats and dogs. If you can't keep the live animals you are selling alive, you shouldn't be trying to sell them!

The rest are kinda insignificant or derivative.