Best reef gift you've gotten!

[bleedingthought]

I came home from work today and my girlfriend told me she had a surprise for me. She told me to close my eyes and walked me over to my salt tank and I saw two floating bags in the sump. She pulled them out and showed me she had bought an orange plate coral and an awesome green tentacle'd alveopora! I was really thankful to think she only did this because she said I've had a really long week at work so far! Obviously, you can probably tell I'm marrying her. :wink:

Anyhow, I just thought about all the things she's bought me for my tank, including my ASM skimmer and most of my fish! I've also had friends offer to buy me things when I'm at the LFS with them.

With that said, what's the best thing for your reef someone has given you in the past?

 

[cbeitel]

My wife told me a few weeks ago after showing her a picture of a built in reef tank I found on the net, "Thats pretty, You should go ahead and do that for our house."

After I explaind the cost, time, effort involved and that my estimates were probably too low, she still told me to do it. 8O

Now, I haven't slept, can't stop thinking about the engineering of the plumbing, electrical, sump, cabinets, what equipment to get, etc etc etc...

But isn't that a BIG part of reefing? The Obsession!!

 

[Anonymous]

Lucky b*stards! :wink:

I am sure some of you had heard about some SO putting a lion fish or something in a tank with small fishes, and have a buffet before the reefkeeper came home to see the "gift"...

 

[Anonymous]

A mate of mine dropped a false cleaner wrasse into my prev sustem as a surprise....damaged 2 fish before I got home and flushed it :twisted: The 2 fish died the next day....

That said, last week I got a goniapora and 2 small regal tangs from a friend who was emigrating (I know I know, but the Goni is doing great and has been in his tank for 2 years already- looks better and healthier in mine!) The next night at 11pm a friend came around and gave me a huge anenome that was battling in one of his restaurant tanks....the patient is flourishing in my system now...

 

[Meloco14]

I came home from work today and my girlfriend told me she had a surprise for me. She told me to close my eyes and walked me over to my salt tank and I saw two floating bags in the sump. She pulled them out and showed me she had bought an orange plate coral and an awesome green tentacle'd alveopora! I was really thankful to think she only did this because she said I've had a really long week at work so far! Obviously, you can probably tell I'm marrying her. :wink:

Anyhow, I just thought about all the things she's bought me for my tank, including my ASM skimmer and most of my fish! I've also had friends offer to buy me things when I'm at the LFS with them.

With that said, what's the best thing for your reef someone has given you in the past?

You're a lucky man, that's for sure. And your special talent of being able to see even with your eyes closed must be amazing! :wink:

 

[Anonymous]

:lol:

I've never really had a surprise but my anniversary present was some coral that me & my hubby picked out online.

It was great!!!

 

[bleedingthought]

I came home from work today and my girlfriend told me she had a surprise for me. She told me to close my eyes and walked me over to my salt tank and I saw two floating bags in the sump. She pulled them out and showed me she had bought an orange plate coral and an awesome green tentacle'd alveopora! I was really thankful to think she only did this because she said I've had a really long week at work so far! Obviously, you can probably tell I'm marrying her. :wink:

Anyhow, I just thought about all the things she's bought me for my tank, including my ASM skimmer and most of my fish! I've also had friends offer to buy me things when I'm at the LFS with them.

With that said, what's the best thing for your reef someone has given you in the past?

You're a lucky man, that's for sure. And your special talent of being able to see even with your eyes closed must be amazing! :wink:

She tends to forget about my lack of eyelids!

:arrow: 8O

 

[Anonymous]

Money, that is the only thing the people in my reef world know enough about to give me.

 

[WRASSER]

Wazzel is right Gift Certificate or money :wink:


Seven, I put a small lion in one of my tanks and my Goldstripe Grouper ate it 8O :wink:

 

[Anonymous]

How is the grouper doing? 8O

 

[WRASSER]

He actually lived and I had to trade him in for a small maroone gold clown to pair up with my female :wink:

 

[jschoon]

The best gift so far is that she has not b!tch3d at the money I 've spent.

She has also suggested we start looking for a large tank to put in the rec room we are planning for our basement.

 

[waymack97]

the freebies you get from ultimatefrags. everytime i order there is always something extra. thanks rommel.
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[Chubosco]

I got some crabs once. She didn't give them to me for the reef though.

 

[bleedingthought]

everytime i order there is always something extra

Like what?

 

[Chubosco]

What

 

[waymack97]

the first time, i ordered 3 frags of zoos. i got 4 frags and extra polyps on the zoos i ordered. not to long ago i ordered some sps frags. ordered 2 got 3. ordered some candy cane, ordered 3 heads got 5. i love that place.
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[artistreefer]

For me my best friend got married and had 3 tanks going and you know what happens when you get married, he was told two had to go!!! so for my birthday he gave me a 125g with stand and canopy all in great shape Oh and my wife bought me a sailfin tang