Things I can't believe people actually ask!!!

[Anonymous]

Here's a good one...

http://www.reefs.org/ubb/ultimatebb.php?ubb=get_topic&f=1&t=032715

 

[coralite1]

I'm cleaning a tank at a store with an algae magnet and a guy asks me if we had any for sale. The man asked me what it was and i told him and he was fully aware that it was a pair of magnets. After i ring him out he asked me how to use it. The Aquarium systems magnet packaging had no instructions for using the magnet.

 

[Anonymous]

My sister-in-law told me she wanted to have a tank like mine and could I help her set it up and teach her how to take care of it. I say sure, but where are you going to put it? (It's a 58 show and she has a small place.)

S:Well, I don't want one like the big tank, I want one like the little tank.

M:The little tank?

S:Yeah, the little one that has the stuff in it.

M:The stuff, you mean the fish and corals, right?

S:No, the stuff. The little squirmy guys and the plants.

M

h, you mean the refugium?

S:Yeah, that's what I want. There's nothing to look at in the big one.

 

[Anonymous]

I love checking out my refugium - it's awesome. ANd it has a lot less algae

 

[danmhippo]

<blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr>Originally posted by tangirl:
<strong>ANd it has a lot less algae

</strong><hr></blockquote>

You mean your main tank?

(if your main tank has more algae, doesn't that make the one on top the refugium?)

 

[pez]

How about:

1) Look at all the anemones (re. Euphyllia divisa)

2) Are those things alive?

3) Fish sleep?

 

[Ryan22]

Everytime my father looked at my tank when I first started it he asked, "whats that red and green stuff on the sand? that is really neat looking". I tried to explain to him that it is bad, but he just kept saying how pretty it looked. Now he askes me "hey what happen to all that cool algea that you used to have? did it die?"

 

[morepunkthanewe]

oh yeah I forgot about this one:

"How do you sleep at night with these bright lights on?" (tank's in my bedroom)
or the variation:
"How do the fish sleep at night with these bright lights on"
---I guess what we ought to first ask ourselves is how do the fishies in the wild go to sleep with the sun on all the time...

 

[NaCl-H2O]

I was in a LFS one day talking to the fish guy when a lady came over. Right before she got to us he said oh my god not again. She had brought some water for testing and told him that the new fish died aswell. As he was testing her water he started asking her many of the usual questions. One of which was what do you keep you salinity at? She said she didn't know she just addes a half a cup of salt per gallon. So he asked her what type of salt do you use? When she said iodized I had to turn and sneek around the tank wall so she wouldn't see me laugh. The guy at the LFS told me on her first visit she said her brother kept SW fish and he told her what to do. he said from now on he'll be asking a lot more questions when someone he dosn't recognize says they know what there doing.

 

[VkeSu]

My brother (lives in Hawii, dives also, hunts lobster, etc.). In town Xmas. He didn't know difference between my fresh and salt tank

and thought all my corals (hammer, torch, frogspawn) were anenomes! Goes to show we learn so much more than we realize. If my parents knew how much I spent on lr they'd have a heart attack!! (and I'm married w/children).

 

[Anonymous]

<blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr>Originally posted by danmhippo:
<strong>

You mean your main tank?

(if your main tank has more algae, doesn't that make the one on top the refugium?)</strong><hr></blockquote>

The little tank on th ebottom has a lot less algae. I can't tell you what's in the top tank, can't see into it.

 

[IBJJ]

My girlfriend tells everyone that she got me a tube of dirt for Xmas (Ca Reactor). And how she's going to grow some sponge and scales on her butt so I'll pay her more attention.

 

[Rich-n-poor]

Question #1
How much does a tank like that cost ?
Question #2
No really how much does it cost ?
Question #3
Well do I have to buy anything after that to keep it up ?
Question #4
Are You Nuts ?
Question #5
Does your wife know you spend that much ?
Answer.......
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[Janet]

I had a lady ask me a few days ago in the market if I would sell her a baby seahorse. I asked her what type of SW setup she had and she said she didn't have a SW tank but she had a Betta.

 

[Lynn]

This thread is just too funny!!!LOL
When I told my Dad how much the live rock cost, he said " well gosh you could have come over to my place, I got lots in the driveway...wouldn't have charged ya for it"

 

[Gordoe]

You should have heard the guy I got from parcel tracking after I told him that if he didn't find my coral it would be dead...

uhh, what's a coral??

It's for my saltwater tank, it's an animal like a fish..

Then I got, YOU SENT A FISH THROUGH THE MAIL???

WOW!! and we say we don't get our money's worth from the service.. Entertainment factor not included..

 

[danmhippo]

Friends saw me browsing on this board........ "WHAT? You mean there are really nutcases like you spend so much time and $$ on fish?"

 

[fishfarmer]

I think the funniest thing I heard at work was one lady was looking at the tank of rainbow TROUT, "They look kinda like a CATFISH."

 

[albee1947]

We were asked today why everything we shipped him died. A large clam, a few corals and some fish, We asked him what the parameters were. He said everthing was fine his other fish are ok. The oscar was fine and the purple parrot was OK. he demanded a refund. You take it from here.

 

[Microcosmos]

from friends and family members (it really did surprise me at first how little most people know about marine biology, but now I'm used to questions like these)
looking at anemones: Q."Why are those plants moving?" A."They're not plants, they're animals--sort of like an upside-down jellyfish."
looking at a large hitchhiker bivalve: Q."Aren't you afraid that clam is gonna eat your fish?" A."Bivalves are filter feeders; that thing couldn't eat a fish even if it wanted to."
looking at feather dusters: Q."How do those plants disappear like that?" A."Those aren't plants, they're tube worms. They use the 'feathers' to catch tiny pieces of food, and for protection they build tube tunnels they can hide in."