What's the worst thing you've ever done for the hobby?

haha she's starting so young and i've only been fish keeping for 2 years now, bet she'll be doing it when she gets older, until she's like me and having to pay all the bills, it's worth it though, i just have to pace myself inbetween paychecks

 

Yep dead Phyto and and skimmate have to be 2 of the worst smells in this hobby...or even smells I know of. We had a bottles of DT's Phyto in our fridge that "expired" in February according to the bottle. We didn't even open it...and this was 3 days ago I'm kind of regretting not smelling it, just to see what it was like, you know? :

 

Wow...you people are weird

The only "bad" thing that I've done for the hobby is allow my electric bills to go up

 

In my brief time.... it was just recently. Went to the LFS to get some Emerald Entre. Parked the Jeep in the garge and didn't drive it again for a couple days. The garage started reeking and didn't figure it out till I had to go somewhere. The fish food blew up and was still rotting. Took a week to ge the smell out of the Jeep and that was without the top. God it was putrid.

 

Well i would say its not a smell or anything to make you puke....well a bit nauseous from stress..but everytime i have had to move my fish tanks they have been full so you got to break em down move all the water and set em back up. Bad part being i always have to go up or down a flight of stairs to take em out of a house or up or down a flight of stairs to put em in a house. 5 times now..... wew!

 

Taking down a tank and setting another up fresh.

But that is also fun.



Yeah, the stray voltage I had from my mag9 was not fun either, and of course there was a little puddle of SW to stand in by the tank when the mag failed that was the return pump.

 

Curt! Those are unbelievable - more please!

I haven't done anything that dramatic. Except I have found out that super glue and I just don't go together. I was moving some frags aound a few days ago and was testing my super glue bottle to see if the nozzle was open. I squirted a blob on a napkin to check it and went on with my repair. A little while later, I put my cell phone down......you got it - right on the blob on the napkin. I didn't realize it until I tried to answer the cell phone. While I was trying to peel the cell phone off the napkin, I got some on my fingers and glued two of my fingers together.....

Phytoplankton and protein skimmer goo aren't that bad! You should have smelled Jwin's diapers!

 

Anyone else ever perform sexual favors in a Truck Stop restroom for money to buy a new skimmer ???

OK

I guess I'm the only one.

 

I simply cannot use super glue without getting it on my fingers. It's literally impossible for me to NOT glue my fingers together!

 

Just joking

But seriously it was a Train Station restroom in Washington D.C.