Maintenance Pet Peeves

[Der_Iron_Chef]

Windexing.

[niloc16]

trying to syphon hair algae at the bottom of the tank that you cannot even touch because it is so bloody deep. i just finished and i get so PO'd by this crap and not being able to reach it to syphon it out. sorry i'm a little frustrated right now.

[michika]

Oh another one; accidental frags that result from trying to clean all the coraline and algae off your glass.

[Snappy]

For me it's cleaning the skimmer and especially the air inlet. Oh I also dislike having to scrape the coraline algae off my acrylic tank(refugium) with a plastic card.

[Moogled]

...My clowns are aggro when I venture near their brain coral to vac some detritus, haha.

...I don't vac detritus in that area anymore. :|

[Reefer Rob]

Scraping the back and sides is absolutely the worst chore.

LOL, cleaning out my skimmer cup is somewhere between making me want to vomit, and the satisfaction of getting that crud out of my aquarium.

[Johnny Reefer]

Not really what your looking for, but I'm peeved .
Planning to empty the skimmer collection cup the next day (tomorrow!) and the skimmer decides to go crazy and overflow (today!) thus dumping 10 days worth of skimmate back into the system. Grrrrrrrrr!

[sharuq1]

Trying to get detritus from hard to reach areas or clean the glass where the rocks are too close to it....and then bumping one &**&%^ rock and having all of them displaced, then screwing around with them for an hour to get them stable again.. Soooo bleeping frusterating