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righttirefire

Pulsating xenia. My just split. Who wants frags? You pay shipping. I got one with your name on it

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" how can i stunt this fishes growth so i dont have to get rid of it?"

 

"how can i FORCE my clown to be hosted by an anemone?"

 

"i bought REALLY live rock *has aiptasia, bubble algae, and a tube sock on it*"

 

"what do you mean drip acclimate"

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The absolutely stunning, beautiful, meticulously put together tanks, surrounded by a rats nest of cables strung all over the place, tangled chords, and steel cable lines hanging to the floor from being too lazy to cut them.

 

Seriously, you spend hundreds of hours a month staring at your tank, not to mention thousands of dollars. If you contribute to the forum, and consider yourself an "enthusiast" take half the time you spend making sure your rock and coral is in the absolute most perfect space possible and clean up your cables!!!!!!

 

Nobody wants to see this behind, on or around your tank:

 

BL0ipTym.jpg

 

This however, is almost as appealing as the actual display:

 

vSQ6k37m.jpg

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" how can i stunt this fishes growth so i dont have to get rid of it?"

 

"how can i FORCE my clown to be hosted by an anemone?"

 

"i bought REALLY live rock *has aiptasia, bubble algae, and a tube sock on it*"

 

"what do you mean drip acclimate"

come on those are the best rocks
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People who tint or spray their brake lights. Why on earth would you want to impact your safety to look trashy?

 

Nearly rear ended some dumbass in a POS civic today because they had black brake lights. Pic incoming soon.

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I am going to make some friends with this one. Giant signatures on forums. The 5 by 7 and up animated gif, jpeg, meme.

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I am going to make some friends with this one. Giant signatures on forums. The 5 by 7 and up animated gif, jpeg, meme.

 

I hate the onesnthat fill the whole page or have like 3 gifs on there, one gif is fine but otherwise I'm losing precious megabytes when the tablet's trying to load this stuff
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The absolutely stunning, beautiful, meticulously put together tanks, surrounded by a rats nest of cables strung all over the place, tangled chords, and steel cable lines hanging to the floor from being too lazy to cut them.

 

Seriously, you spend hundreds of hours a month staring at your tank, not to mention thousands of dollars. If you contribute to the forum, and consider yourself an "enthusiast" take half the time you spend making sure your rock and coral is in the absolute most perfect space possible and clean up your cables!!!!!!

 

Nobody wants to see this behind, on or around your tank:

 

BL0ipTym.jpg

 

This however, is almost as appealing as the actual display:

 

vSQ6k37m.jpg

That is pretty sweet. I am so, so, so, guilty of this offence, however I have been trying to get the cables of my pico in order. I got one of those plastic wrap things to go around the cables.

 

Halo, I want to see that pic. Sounds like a pretentious douche bag.

 

 

Winter is really starting to grind my gears.

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People who call clowns "Nemos" ohh GAHWD!!!!

WAIT A MINUTE....My Clownfish is actually named "NEMO" just ask my Grandaughter...

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jedimasterben

vSQ6k37m.jpg

And the stuff isn't actually that expensive. On Amazon you can get 67" of it for about $22 with Prime shipping (here). You can also get it for a bit less from other sellers. Just ordered some :)

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I don’t mind people asking stupid questions, because they can learn and they may not have had an opportunity to know a lot of things. What really grinds my gears is people who say "oh you cant have a salt-water tank, you’re only in 8th grade, your parents must do all the work" or people at the LFS looking at me and saying "these are salt-water fish, you know"

 

Oh, and Hair algae, I really hate that stuff!

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"Fat girls" messed up haha


Craigslist Add with 35$ for a Pulsing Xenia Frag.

or the 550$ 12g Bio Cube set up with "Special coral light"

Uhhg!!!!

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What grinds my gears is I ~just~ found out about Red Bull's Crashed Ice being in my back yard essentially..... And I've been driving past the construction for the past month..... I just figured the crane and several flatbed trucks were there for the eighteen million other bits of construction going on by the Shaw Conference Center....

 

Aquarium related... When salespeople at local fish stores look at me weird because I want to run two filters (hob+canister) on my planted tanks.. I suppose a more saltwater related one is when I go into an LFS and start asking questions, and when they ask what I know and I say "I've researched the basics" they then assume it means I've researched nothing...

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Fat girls.

fat girl porn is huge on the net......someone must like fat girls. :P I like them all! except the ugly ones :lol:

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What grinds my gears is I ~just~ found out about Red Bull's Crashed Ice being in my back yard essentially..... And I've been driving past the construction for the past month..... I just figured the crane and several flatbed trucks were there for the eighteen million other bits of construction going on by the Shaw Conference Center....

 

Aquarium related... When salespeople at local fish stores look at me weird because I want to run two filters (hob+canister) on my planted tanks.. I suppose a more saltwater related one is when I go into an LFS and start asking questions, and when they ask what I know and I say "I've researched the basics" they then assume it means I've researched nothing...

after working in pet stores for about 6 years total, id say about 80% of the people ive helped with fish had said they researched the basics, yet disregard my advice, and end up with an issue that could have been easily avoided had said advice been followed. customers want to hear what they think is true, so try not to let it get to you that they assume you know nothing, cause most likely theyve heard all same questions, same story, same excuse, etc... a dozen times that day, and a hundred times that week.

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after working in pet stores for about 6 years total, id say about 80% of the people ive helped with fish had said they researched the basics, yet disregard my advice, and end up with an issue that could have been easily avoided had said advice been followed. customers want to hear what they think is true, so try not to let it get to you that they assume you know nothing, cause most likely theyve heard all same questions, same story, same excuse, etc... a dozen times that day, and a hundred times that week.

 

Makes sense, but they don't have to continue to treat the person as if they're an idiot when they provide three paragraph answers to their first few questions, including a detailed explanation of things like the nitrogen cycle and what particular equipment they were looking at, and what seems like a sensible stocking list. Then again, that LFS was one that had a display tank completely riddled with aiptasia and bubble algae (in the clearly visible overflow anyways, the display was clean *rolls eyes*), and a quick glance into their live rock holding tanks shows an entire WALL of bubble algae on the tiles. Mmm, always wanted something free when I eventually purchase live rock, but pretty sure it wasn't a ton of pests :P

 

Sounds like I need to work on my wording, and instead of saying "the basics" figure out a way to answer the question that isn't a five minute (yet still beginner's in my opinion) reply. I say beginners since even in freshwater my usual reply to that kind of question is "enough to get myself into trouble, but usually enough to get out of it" since at present my planted tanks are low tech (will eventually be CO2 with proper ferts, at least if I keep a freshwater tank).

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Another thing I hate, homework, and my teachers 97% of the time. And the students. School sucks. All you adults remember this you never want to be less than 18. It is a curse I am forced to suffer every day of my life. I can't wait to have a job, pay my bills, drive my car, sleep in my own house, make all my own food, not deal with teachers, have a boss, get a paycheck, and other adulthood fun.

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Another thing I hate, homework, and my teachers 97% of the time. And the students. School sucks. All you adults remember this you never want to be less than 18. It is a curse I am forced to suffer every day of my life. I can't wait to have a job, pay my bills, drive my car, sleep in my own house, make all my own food, not deal with teachers, have a boss, get a paycheck, and other adulthood fun.

 

So you are dying to exchange homework for real work, teachers for bosses, and students for coworkers? Enjoy what you've got while you have it.

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So you are dying to exchange homework for real work, teachers for bosses, and students for coworkers? Enjoy what you've got while you have it.

that's exactly what I want, work that gives me some money from a job I decide on, a boss who will have his grouch moments and tantrums and fireing threats but for understandable reasons since his work is more stressful than mine, and coworkers constantly trying to make me look bad but I will do my best to treat them good. Adulthood has so many advantages, trust me if your over 18 you're lucky.
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that's exactly what I want, work that gives me some money from a job I decide on, a boss who will have his grouch moments and tantrums and fireing threats but for understandable reasons since his work is more stressful than mine, and coworkers constantly trying to make me look bad but I will do my best to treat them good. Adulthood has so many advantages, trust me if your over 18 you're lucky.

Oh god I used to think the same way, I'm now 36 have a couple kids etc....not a day goes by that I don't tell them to stay young as long as they can and enjoy every minute of it. I was in highschool when one of my neighbors told me to enjoy highschool, it will be some of the best times of my life. I laughed it off... Now I look back and couldn't agree more. Adulthood isn't as great as you youngsters think it is.

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