hey canada

[Skimmerking]

Originally Posted by The Codfather

Mine is when your buddy's tank crashes and you have to take care of all his fish and coral!! Just jokin' Wes.

So that who owned all the stuff in your tank when I brought you your Bubble king

[chwkreefer]

I hate it when I make a deal to purchase some corals or frags from a seller and then they decide to sell them to someone else irregardless of the fact that the seller and myself had already made a verbal purchase agreement which includes specific coral(s), price and arrangements for pick up including the day for pick up.

[Duffer2]

Fish that refuse to be caught. Even after a long talk discussing with them why they need to leave the tank and relocate, they still refuse and hide in the rock like little chickens.

[Reef_surfer]

Buying equipment from second hand and they say "new,mint condition, nothing wrong" only to get home and it doesnt work i.e pumps not working, heaters failing, sumps,tanks cracking leaking.

if its broke, advertise it or throw it away

I know its always a risk though just a pet peeve

[iansfishy]

Originally Posted by Reef_surfer

Buying equipment from second hand and they say "new,mint condition, nothing wrong" only to get home and it doesnt work i.e pumps not working, heaters failing, sumps,tanks cracking leaking.

if its broke, advertise it or throw it away

I know its always a risk though just a pet peeve

Amen, but dont complain on canreef, its all happy, happy time here!

[globaldesigns]

Originally Posted by iansfishy

Amen, but dont complain on canreef, its all happy, happy time here!

HEHE, now that is funny... Tread lightly or the Canreefers will linch you!

[The Grizz]

Originally Posted by dsaundry

No real pet peeves, oh wait, crappy polititians, lousy drivers, ignorant people, the price of gas and oil, my teams not winning the championship, people who nag too much, tax's, lousy neighbours, lousy employee's, lousy customers, lousy delivery people, rude food servers, pushy salespeople, telemarketers, hospital food, lousy weather, people that have too many pet peeves..........

+1 and must add customer's who take over 90 days to pay there bills.

Originally Posted by chwkreefer

I hate it when I make a deal to purchase some corals or frags from a seller and then they decide to sell them to someone else irregardless of the fact that the seller and myself had already made a verbal purchase agreement which includes specific coral(s), price and arrangements for pick up including the day for pick up.

Have not had this problem but totally agree, when an agreement is made it should be kept.

Originally Posted by Reef_surfer

Buying equipment from second hand and they say "new,mint condition, nothing wrong" only to get home and it doesnt work i.e pumps not working, heaters failing, sumps,tanks cracking leaking.

if its broke, advertise it or throw it away

I know its always a risk though just a pet peeve

This is a big one for me as well, bought a MAG 12 pump from a dude in Fort Mac and when it was time to run it, it was screwed.

[soapy]

My pet peeve is ridiculously over-saturated colour adjusted photos of corals that no longer have any resemblance to reality.

[SmallFry]

Originally Posted by rayjay

I'm annoyed that the spell checkers on Firefox/and my computer don't give the option for Canadian english such as colour as opposed to color.

Oh I hear you - drives me absolutely nuts. I'm British, so my spelling is more like the Canadian spelling. I apparently still say "tomato" wrong though

Originally Posted by BlueWorldAquatic

Funny thing is we use "gallons" and "inches" still commonly in the aquarium world.

Once you strip away the political stuff, people will generally use the most convenient unit for the task - feet, inches and gallons naturally fit for the scale of the average aquarium so measurements in feet and inches make more sense than in say, millimetres or a decimal value in metres.

In temperature there's not such a difference, so you see Celcsius and Fahrenheit being used depending on what people are more used to.

When confusion arises, I find Google is very handy for converting units, you just type in what you have and what unit you want it in.

e.g. "25C in kelvin" or "25C in F"

[Funky_Fish14]

Converting degrees C to Kelvins is easy, just add 273 to the value! (Or 273.149 if you really need to be accurate! Haha).

Degrees F is actually slightly more accurate per degree increase than celcius. For every degree change in F, it is only 5/9 of a degree change in celcius. Although the C scale is more chemically coordinated and makes more sense, the F scale is slightly more accurate by the degree (assuming the thermometer determining each change in degrees is accurate). Im not advocating the use of F, but I dont think its terrible. I use both anyways, but for the majority of calculation purposes I use C.