FESS UP !

[jimroth]

(1) Don't usually quarantine. I am Setting up Q-tank for an expensive fish I have incoming though.
(2) Bad housekeeping, don't keep after detritus in display or sump
(3) Clean skimmer body every couple weeks at best.
(4) Test every couple of months, except salinity and pH
(5) Don't look at tank every day when busy
(6) Kill Korals Kause of Karelessness  (Let stuff fall on other stuff, etc)
(7) Don't use GFI outlets (nothing in display tank runs on 110VAC anyway)

10 years with reefs. Five years before that with SW fish only. Had my First SW tank in 1975.

 

[reeferwanabe]

don't quarantine
arms in tank more than I want to
4 years reef
5 yrs. SW fish only
15 yrs. freshwater

 

[Lord Viper]

This is like the sink or swim theory in here. LOL im still a newb so I try to do everything by the book but I don't think I clean my tools and containers enuff.

 

[Daniel]

clean tools and containers! Who dose that not ME ;D That sounds like to much WORK!

 

[paintman27]

I failed chemistry class....that means i don't know a thing about ph, alkalinty, or calcium ???
I am poor ....that means my wife pays the electric bills
I am poor that means the wife pays for the bi-weekly water changes
I am poor ....that means all my coral purchases go on my wifes credit card
I am the father of my wifes 2 children...that mean I will be poor for another 18 years ;D

 

[tbone212371]

Reefing for bout 3 years now, freshwater for 25+ years..
Hands and arms always in tanks, its good for the skin ya know...
Use tap water , but slowly weening tanks off of it....
Test tank parameters 2 x's per month...sometimes more....
Test salinity on tanks 2-3 x's a week....
Never QT.....

 

[Daniel]

bi-weekly water changes

Bi-Weekly water changes what is that ;D

 

[paintman27]

bi-weekly water changes

Bi-Weekly water changes what is that ;D

opps bi-monthly

 

[REEFLECTIONS]

never once quarantined.
hands never come out of tank
don't own a test kit. of any type other than refractometer
haven't done a water change in months.
temp acclimate only.

4 years fresh.
5 years reef.

 

[George]

2 years into the hobby.

stopped checking water parameters
never quarantine
use tap water
always sticking my hands in the tank moving stuff around
did a water change yesterday after 3 months

terrible i know

 

[JRWOHLER]

35 years fresh water
6 salt
3 reef

Wow I am pretty shocked at the "rule" breakers. Maybe I am parnoid.
The whole hands in the tank thing shouldn't be a rule that one I cannot get away from.

 

[SWITCH420]

if it was not 4 that dam damsel fish always knocking over moving my frags i would not have my arms in the tank as much but at least 3-4 times a day have to fix it

 

[Hawkeye]

I try to avoid sticking the arms in the tank, this guy got a bacterial infection from an open wound:

http://reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1782533

 

[pgordemer]

I always have my arms in the tank.
I only test the display tank once a quarter (I do test newly-made up water)
I never quarrantine.
I only temperature acclimate corals.
I don't sweat exact numbers. (is PH 8.275 better than 8.23...).
I do water change every 2 weeks
I don't have anything else on a schedule, I do it when something looks strange.