why is it that...

[Anonymous]

no matter how beautiful your corals are or how interesting your critters are, friends and relatives are always drawn to those few bubble corals in your tank? just when i think i've plucked every last one, someone always seems to find a couple and says, "ooooh, what are those cool green pearly things?" :roll:

 

[Anonymous]

...and why do people think the $4.50 brittle stars are so interesting....

Louey

 

[SPC]

those few bubble corals in your tank?

-Bubble corals :lol: :lol: .

My wife likes the rock boring urchin that hitchhiked in on some LR the best :roll: .
Steve

 

[Anonymous]

oops...

i meant bubble algae. no wonder only a couple of you have responded. geese.

 

[Vixyswillie]

And of course - NOBODY ever appreciates all that "Pepto-Bismol" you have on the back wall of your tank! :roll:

 

[Anonymous]

And of course - NOBODY ever appreciates all that "Pepto-Bismol" you have on the back wall of your tank! :roll:

true. weird how all the majority of it seems to grow on that back wall. i have some on the side glass and in the corners but none on the front.

 

[O P Ing]

hi.
Most people will notice dandelions in a lawn. Bubble algae have a interesting common name, "Sailor's eyeball." Now you will have more things to talk about when they ask you once again.

I keep the tank for my enjoyment. If you feel that you are obliged to entertain your guests, maybe you should grow some sailor's eyeballs and aptiasia with a very noise pump and a few airstones. How about a few old-fashion divers, and a treasure chest? Now you sure going to impress everyone when they come for the parrot dinner :wink:

 

[Anonymous]

Bubble algae have a interesting common name, "Sailor's eyeball."

interesting.

If you feel that you are obliged to entertain your guests...

no, i don't. just wish they would appreciate the more beautiful and delicate things in my tank.

 

[trigger0214]

I can relate...friends and family used to LOVE the triggers and angels that were in my tank. I got so many complements and comments. Used to sit and watch the fish, have drink and a gay old time. Now that I have, what I feel to be, an upgraded BEAUTIFUL reef tank, they could care less, walking right by. Maybe I'll get a small porpoise and teach it do tricks, hmmmm.

 

[esmithiii]

Most my friends/family like the inverts such as crabs, urchins, brittle stars, etc. No one gets into the corals like I do, and if they do the sure as heck don't appreciate the SPS.

Ernie

 

[Reefguide]

Same here, they look at my tank and say "only 2 fish?" , "yeah but look at the corals".... "forget the corals...." "only 2 fish?" !

Thats about when I start to bash them over the head with a mag lite... :twisted:

 

[Anonymous]

I think that's why most people I dive with have no problems stomping on the corals with their fins. Very irritating. It can probably be summed up as, "they don't get it."

 

[Reefguide]

Your right... They don't and the more you try to expain it to them they interupt you with "pass me a beer..." They really just dont care...

 

[Anonymous]

And when the average person doesn't care about the reef, then you can begin to understand why nobody has been successful in reef conservation to date. Sorry to get off-topic.

I had a pretty nice 100gallon reef in my old apartment's living room for a couple years. In my bedroom I had a 50 gallon that housed one fish...a Red Sea masked pufferfish. Guess which tank got more attention? Of course, there's no denying the masked pufferfish is very interesting, but the tank was just live rock, sand, and the fish resting on a really cheesy stand. The reef tank had a huge derasa clam, a ton of xenia, lots of other soft corals, and I spent quite a bit of money to get a nice stand and canopy made for it. It was quite beautiful I thought. Guess I was the only one.

 

[dzhuo]

I think by most people's (ie, those that do not keep aquarium) definition, corals are "plant" and "tree". Fishs are animal that actually moves. When someone sees a monkey in the tree, they will say "Look there is a monkey in the tree!", not that they will say "Look there is a tree and there is a monkey in it!".

david

 

[CAT]

Visitors like the fire shrimp. Then they get grossed out when I explain about the big mouth on the bubble coral

 

[CraigLampe]

I agree whole-heartedly, I get the very same comments, my dad insists on feeding the fish ENTIRELY TOO MUCH for the sake of them being "healthy" while the corals are being overwhelmed by the algae created after half of this food goes on the sand...

I am happy to say my GF likes the tank and I think she even appreciates the corals as-much-as (probably not MORE THAN, like me) the fish!! Excellent!!

I do really keep this tank for ME, though, and whatever people say I have to do it the way I enjoy it...

 

[O P Ing]

hi.
I agree with Chris and David. You got tons of people going for whale watch and save-the-dolphin, but unless you are a 300 yrs old tree, no one going to hug you.

We can relate to fish and other verts, but a piece of rock that grow because it got a layer of cell covering it... we just don't get impressed much. Pulsing Xenia is a different stories. No matter how many times I told them it grow like a weed (a Chris Georgian strain :wink: ), they just stare at it until they got hypnosized and drop on the carpet... :?

 

[Anonymous]

Same here, they look at my tank and say "only 2 fish?" , "yeah but look at the corals".... "forget the corals...." "only 2 fish?" !

though i do have more than 2 fish, they seem to get the most attention. oh yeah, the fish and the bubble algae. i will painstakingly point out each coral to them and the eyes will glaze over. however, once in a while my shrimp will be the center of attention. many get creeped out by them, "eew! gross, they look like big bugs." :lol:

 

[Anonymous]

No matter how many times I told them it grow like a weed (a Chris Georgian strain :wink: ), they just stare at it until they got hypnosized and drop on the carpet... :?

You have some of my xenia? Ah, my children. I consider that xenia my little contribution to the reef community. I remember when it was just a baby, driving the tiny bugger home from LA in a zip-loc baggy. 'sniff'