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OK...so we have our aquariums all nicely set up, fish are healthy and all is good....
But sometimes something lets everything down...might be equipment or part of a piece of equipment or the scaping etc
No matter how well we take care of our aquatic box of tricks, something will misbehave and make you swear
My pet peeve is the sucker cup.
That small, squishy bit of rubbery stuff that goes on strike at the slightest opportunity. The worst offender by far is the filter sucker cup that waits til lights are out before slithering down the glass and plonking the filter onto the substrate by morning so I have to go fishing for it. Then you get the sucker cups that flatly refuse to let go of the glass no matter how much I pick and squiggle it, it will not come off. For such a small, relatively simple thing they are so badly behaved.
I have found a way around it...Aquael filters have adjustable hooks on their suction cup holders that can be made to fit over the rim of the aquarium so even if the suction cup does go on strike, the filter always stays exactly where you want it to be and not slithering to the bottom of the aquarium.
So what is your pet peeve in fishkeeping, the one thing that really winds you up due to its bad behaviour or not doing as its told...and what is your solution?
But sometimes something lets everything down...might be equipment or part of a piece of equipment or the scaping etc
No matter how well we take care of our aquatic box of tricks, something will misbehave and make you swear
My pet peeve is the sucker cup.
That small, squishy bit of rubbery stuff that goes on strike at the slightest opportunity. The worst offender by far is the filter sucker cup that waits til lights are out before slithering down the glass and plonking the filter onto the substrate by morning so I have to go fishing for it. Then you get the sucker cups that flatly refuse to let go of the glass no matter how much I pick and squiggle it, it will not come off. For such a small, relatively simple thing they are so badly behaved.
I have found a way around it...Aquael filters have adjustable hooks on their suction cup holders that can be made to fit over the rim of the aquarium so even if the suction cup does go on strike, the filter always stays exactly where you want it to be and not slithering to the bottom of the aquarium.
So what is your pet peeve in fishkeeping, the one thing that really winds you up due to its bad behaviour or not doing as its told...and what is your solution?