In the doghouse

Post by **Shane** » 22 Dec 2007, 06:25

I'd love to see my wife's expression if she opened up the dishwasher and there was a piece of bogwood in there! Might be worth it, although the dog house is pretty uncomfortable........

Wood and rocks in the dishwasher does not even qualify as an offense.

Some of my convictions:

Peat in the coffee pot to make my own blackwater extract (that will get you busted).

Using the colander to wash gravel (it is mine now)

Caught collecting brineshrimp with the kitchen turkey baster (also mine now)

Caught using kitchen measuring spoons for fish medications (also mine now)

Caught trimming plants with the "good kitchen scissors."

Using assorted pots pans, and

perware as temporary tanks.

Using the kitchen mortar and pestle to mash up dry food for the fry.

Big offense, caught cutting up pantyhose for use as filter media bag.

OK, what has gotten you in the dog house?
-Shane

Bas Pels · Post by **Bas Pels** » 22 Dec 2007, 09:00

)Being without a wife, I could get away with all Shanes crimes - but now I realize I never did any of them

I even keep cleaning buckets and aquarium buckets (because the cleaning buckets are too foul for aquarium purposes, of course

)

racoll · Post by **racoll** » 22 Dec 2007, 09:22

I think i've been guilty of pretty much all of those "offences", with the exception of the coffee pot and the turkey baster.

Taking over the freezer with little trays of frozen aquatic invertebrates is another one I'm sure we're all familiar with.....

Post by **Shane** » 22 Dec 2007, 09:35

Taking over the freezer with little trays of frozen aquatic invertebrates is another one I'm sure we're all familiar with.....

Ah yes, only slightly worse than the spouse coming home and finding live blackworms in the fridge.
-Shane

Post by **Birger** » 22 Dec 2007, 13:39

OK, what has gotten you in the dog house?

The above are only considered offences if you get caught!!!.....But....now I also have my own measuring spoons,colander,etc.

Another thing considered an offense, putting an end to a days outing because there just happens to be a LFS which you just had to go into which astonishingly has a fish you have been looking for and now it has to go straight home, I have learned to always have a insulated box handy to avoid this.

Birger

Dave Rinaldo · Post by **Dave Rinaldo** » 22 Dec 2007, 13:43

Shane wrote:
finding live blackworms in the fridge.
-Shane

That got me my own mini fridge

Post by **corybreed** » 22 Dec 2007, 14:16

Using the blender to make paste food. Its mine now. Happy Holidays everyone.

Mark

KnaveTO · Post by **KnaveTO** » 22 Dec 2007, 16:35

Oh... how about using the stewing pot to boil wood in?

YouTube · Post by **Jools** » 22 Dec 2007, 16:44

Don't ever borrow a hairdryer for ANY form of drying activity.

The main beef in casa Dignall is the occasional small group of small pieces of gravel that are found in the bottom of the loo. It needs a serious numero dos to shift them.

It is, almost entirely impossible, to flush floating bogweed.

Jools

Fish Soup · Post by **Fish Soup** » 22 Dec 2007, 17:24

Live critters, food or bait, in the refrigerator.

Dead stuff in the freezer, again food or bait, is tolerated. Barely.

Don

pygmaeus · Post by **pygmaeus** » 22 Dec 2007, 17:41

Gravel in the sink that spilled when I was rinsing new gravel. You know, they think it'll clog the drain.

Spilling tank water all over the "nice carpet" was a big offence years ago, now I just get handed a towel.

Leaving the bucket of dirty water change water out in the living room with guests coming over, along with dead plant leaves sitting on a towel on the floor.

There is also an ever decreasing supply of plastic cups and containers in our kitchen...but I don't think anyone's noticed yet....

Most other things listed have been avoided because I was forced to get my own measuring spoons, scissors, etc etc. But I still do get suspicious looks whenever I return something to the kitchen.

Richard B · Post by **Richard B** » 22 Dec 2007, 18:30

uh-oh, errrr... mealworm in a plastic lidded tank stored in the cool of the bathroom &

wait for it,

Her indoors walking into the kitchen to find me shredding earthworms (albeit with my dedicated knife & chopping board for aquarium use only)

She was not happy!

RoseFishWatcher · Post by **RoseFishWatcher** » 22 Dec 2007, 18:36

LOL.

So far, I've busted my boyfriend for using a fish-only bucket to hold soapy water. I was kind of ticked, but it was just dawn + water + dust so it's still usable.

'Course, he's the one who'd get on my case if I used kitchen stuff for my fish. That's why I try not to : )

He also gives me a talk whenever I have fish chemicals on the kitchen counter - it just doesn't sit well with him : P

Post by **Birger** » 22 Dec 2007, 19:43

Yes....I guess it goes both ways.......using cleaners to close to the tanks or worse cleaning the glass for me, as said using dedicated fish buckets for other things, unplugging heaters to plug in lamps even temporarily, putting things on top of the tanks.
Calling my favourite catfish ugly....even in jest, I am very sensitive you know

I am sure there are more things that would put them into the doghouse

mikelouth · Post by **mikelouth** » 22 Dec 2007, 21:08

Taking the dining room doorframe out on a crappy wet scottish day and turning up with an 8ft by 2 by 2 tank then buggering off to the states for a month whilst it sits there empty, then another month while it cycles with her moaning.
The only saving fact was when she found out what all the bits are worth all in all about 3 grand for a bargain price £300.
Heehee
Plus using the kitchen sieve to route out bristle worms from my marine tank (the rust gave it away)

bslindgren · Post by **bslindgren** » 23 Dec 2007, 00:13

Those offenses are hilarious - thanks for that all of you! I can't match any of it (I am very careful) but still get comments about the room smelling like a swamp (from the filter medium I guess) after I've changed water. I have lost my sense of smell so it doesn't bother me! Problem is I can't guard against it because I don't know it's there.

Merry Christmas! Hopefully Santa is a tropical fish afficionado so our obsessions are tended to!

YouTube · Post by **Jools** » 23 Dec 2007, 08:55

Another one is that people that know me a bit but not well always buy me little tacky fish things which usually involve plastic or cheap crystal and goldfish, angelfish or some random often poorly rendered marine species. You should also see birthday time in my house, I'd say about 50% of my birthday cards have some sort of fishy reference on them - it's nice but I can be a bit of sore point.

I mean, best birthday present ever is a box of frozen bloodworm or a new power filter. I've got an Amazon wish list with loads of fish books on it that have been there for years...

All that said, Clare (my wife for those that don't know her) is brilliant at supporting me in my hobby and has taken recently to framing my collection of old fish prints and giving them as presents with really nice wooden frames.

Jools

bronzefry · Post by **bronzefry** » 23 Dec 2007, 17:01

I used silk thread to tie plants onto driftwood. I didn't know it was silk.

Amanda

corydoras · Post by **corydoras** » 23 Dec 2007, 17:39

Hi

A few of my own....

Microworm cultures in the airing cupboard
Annual killifish eggs in peat in the airing cupboard
Asking for every old butter tub to be washed out so I can use it for microworm
Trying to re-use old microworm tubs by washing them in the kitchen sink when they really had gone a little too far to be recycled
Beefheart in the Kenwood mixer and then having to clean it meticulously afterwards
Stealing the cucumber meant for the tuna sandwiches
Rejecting bread that was too stale for whiteworm cultures

Cheers

Matt

Post by **Coryman** » 24 Dec 2007, 00:12

Top one for loosing all your 'Brownie points' has to be using the blender to liquidise earth worms.

Ian

YouTube · Post by **Jools** » 24 Dec 2007, 07:29

Coryman wrote:Top one for loosing all your 'Brownie points' has to be using the blender to liquidise earth worms.

In my house, "brownie points" are called "Clare miles"...

Jools

Richard B · Post by **Richard B** » 24 Dec 2007, 12:13

I suppose all this goes to prove the dedication of us fishkeepers, against all adversity.......

YouTube · Post by **Jools** » 24 Dec 2007, 13:26

I'm surprised no one's mentioned the, "it cost HOW MUCH" classic as well. Althouhg that's not always a problem in comparision to some aspects of the bobby, a lot of l-numbers can get pretty spendy.

Jools

Post by **Birger** » 24 Dec 2007, 14:42

a lot of l-numbers can get pretty spendy.

Especially when that L-number, lisamadoras, syno the list could go on....disappears first thing not to be seen again for two months

Birger

KnaveTO · Post by **KnaveTO** » 24 Dec 2007, 15:36

I have days where I really wish I had a partner... then I read this and tank god I am a bachellor... lol

Bas Pels · Post by **Bas Pels** » 24 Dec 2007, 15:40

Birger wrote:disappears first thing not to be seen again for two months

Birger

That is precisely what happened with my Rhinodoras. Howeever, this 60 days term is over, and now see them daily - around feedingtime

Post by **Marc van Arc** » 24 Dec 2007, 15:46

My wife doesn't want to know how much a fish or fishes cost and that's probably best

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Post by **Barbie** » 24 Dec 2007, 17:32

My husband loves the fish, but draws the line at live foods in the fridge for some reason. I think it's because my old roommate told him that some got into the KoolAid and he didn't realize it until he'd drunk half a glass full. Maybe.... But he had a 2 year old! I know that a bunch of them didn't just decide to migrate into the orange water spontaneously!

His pet peeves are the plethora of STUFF I seem to accumulate with the tanks and the fact that they've been breeding and multiplying all over the house. To find us, I literally tell people we're the house with the glowing blue light at the bottom of the hill

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Then again, he was already a fish hobbyist when I found him, so that might have something to do with it. He once told me I could have as many fish as I wanted (yeah, I know!), as long as I rehomed my lovebirds. Well heck, that's an incentive program I couldn't pass up!

Barbie

BlkMagik79 · Post by **BlkMagik79** » 24 Dec 2007, 18:05

I think this is extremely entertaining...I did all of the above to my Mom before I moved out to a place of my own (w/Seedy that is). However...I never got in trouble for any of it. My Parents used to have "show" tanks when I was little, but got rid of them when we moved from Wyoming to Oklahoma, so they used to do the same things. Also my Dad rules their house so he gets to do just about anything he wants. He just has to watch for when he has taken something too far as she literally "out ranks" him in the US Air Force.

Now I get comments like "your going to use that?" and "Are you sure that's clean enough to use for humans again?" I think it's funny!!! As long as no one ruins my "fish buckets" everything will be OK.

Post by **Birger** » 24 Dec 2007, 18:32

I think a psychiatrist could do quite a study on these posts....could be disturbing what they find out about us....err....I mean you people

Seasons Greetings to all

Birger