What are your reefing pet peeves?

I read on another board this very question and there were soo many good answers. I wanted to see if the pet pevees for you all were the same as members of other boards. So what are your biggest reefing pet peeves?

I'll start with:

1. knocking over 5 frags while trying to move 1
2. dripping water on the just cleaned outside front of the tank
3. 5 hours removing all corals and lr to catch the fish you just put in a week ago
4. daughters friends touching the tank
5. people that think they know it all including lfs-you can always learn in this hobby

That is just a few of mine, please post what drives you crazy with regards to reefing.

 

One thing that bugs me is watching my tangs rip the dried algae right off the clip then seein it go straight into the overflow. And scratches, I hate them, I have a couple and every time I see them I get upset to my stomach.

 

...I'd have to agree with the "know it all" LFS and the massive BS...even over hearing them tell others BS....thats my peeve. : )

 

Brown slime surprises and mystery stings that leave your hand welted.

 

A random vibration noise and you cant find what is doing it.
Tangs in anything under 48" in length.
Buying a fish with the idea of upgrading later.

 

....never having enough money!

snails that insist on rolling or falling onto their backs - thus requiring me to turn them back over. and over... and overrrrrr....

 

1) margarita snails that love the propeller of koralia pumps
2) never being able to get the non-digital timers to go on and off exactly when you want
3) my cleaner shrimp harrassing my just spot fed LPS coral
4) turbo snails always landing on their backs (how do they survive in the wild if they fall off of everything and always land on their backs?)
5) settling on your 2nd choice coral then to have your first choice pop up at a random store you just happened to pass
6) people that feel they have to put their fingers on the glass to point something out

 

That is a good one ;D

 

1.) My pseudo obsessively swimming into the power head
2.) Going to the LFS and loving a bunch of fish that I cannot buy at the moment
3.) That some of the coolest fish get too big
4.) Salt creep
5.) My dwarf ceriths only wanting to live in the intake of my filter and not in my tank where they are supposed to be cleaning.