The Lighter Side of Reef Keeping...

Well not exactly for reefkeeping, but I had an oscar that was really smart, he would jump out of the water and grab food out of my hand. But once I opened the hood to my tank and he shot out and hit me in the face. That was cool.

Oh and I was at fellow 3reefers, Greebs' house once, we were feeding his tank and all of his fish were really cool. Some of them being a niger trigger, snowflake moray, and a porcupine puffer. Out of no where the puffer developed a hatred for me. I have never seen anything like it. He would bite at the glass if I was even close to the tank and chase my hand around if I was to help Matt out with anything in the tank. I was feeding his fish as Matt went to the bathroom to wash out a feeding cup when the porcupine puffer bit my index finger when I was putting a silverside into the tank. I jerked back because it scared the crap out of me, to my amazement the fish came with. He let go after a second and flew across the room and landed on Matt's bed. It instantly puffed up, then vomited on his bed. I picked up the vomiting and burping fish to try to put it back in the tank, but it was too big when fully puffed up to fit inside the hood. I had to tear everything apart to put him back in. Somehow I did all this while Matt was in the bathroom without him even knowing. The puffer was fine and hated me until the day the tank was taken down, it liked everyone else though? Very weird. Funny to look back at though. :laughing0:laughing0

 

That is funny right there! Rippping the cords our haha. I love to wake up to my tank but my wife after all these years still pulls the blanket over her head!

 

After this day I changed the timer from 7-7 to 9-9 haha

 

Did this involve Alcohol?

 

Somewhere I have a pic of a nass. vibex half buried in my trumpet corals mouth.

No I can relate to you. At first my wife was all "HELLZ Yeah!" Then after about 3 pieces of equipment and the base rock she turned mean. LOL ;D


To everyone else..karma on the way and thank you for making me smile. I knew I could count on my 'adopted' family for a laugh!

 

LMAO, this sounds like a scene from a movie.

 

OMG....i was almost in tears when i read this, i called my bf and read it to him and he burst out laughing too...

I can just picture this happening. wayyyyy too hilarious! puffer puke on the bed even...oh man LOL

 

Haha. Yeah. It was crazy how he didnt even notice. The only thing he noticed was that a small cactus that he had on his desk got destroyed in the battle with the puffer. It literally exploded all over his room. He walked back in and was like what happened to my cactus? I told him it must have exploded, he must have thought that was a plausable excuse because he never asked twice about it. lol :laughing0:laughing0 I still havent told him that I made his cactus explode.

Cool thread topic. I almost forgot about this story. Its almost too good to be true.

 

No thank you for the comic relief!;D

 

ok.....it is 6:39 am here in NY, i was up for water....wandered over to peek at forums and read about the exploding cactus.

"hey, what happened to my cactus?"
*shrug*
"no clue, it must have exploded man"
"oh..."

I am seriously laughing all over again - at this way too early hour.

That got you more karma!!!