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Unread 04/03/2007, 10:25 PM   #1
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I hope you can be me helping

Honorable Father has left me ( Fowie ) in charge of family aquarium and I have a small problem to discuss please.

Father explained to me that I must do water change on Aquarium after one week of his and my Mothers absense overseas. I did as he ordered and removed one half of the water from the aquarium. I then used garden hose and filled aquarium to same level with fresh water. I then realise that I forgot to add salt.

WHAT TO DO! I went to kitchen and found Mothers electric cake mixer, the typw with 2 metal beaters. So I placed beaters in water and turned on cake mixer. It mad lots of water splashing and tornedo in water but I was then able to slowly add the salt that I had forgotten about earlier.

Problem now is that Anemone was sucked up into cake mixer beaters and was chopped up into a million bits!!!!!

Does this mean that many new anemones will grow from the pieces????

Any answers before Father and Mother come home next week appreciated

Fowie


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Unread 04/03/2007, 10:32 PM   #2
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Isnt this site here to educate and discuss and help real people with real problems. Now i have just wasted 2 minutes of time that could have been used to help someone in real need, Seriously dude.


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Unread 04/03/2007, 10:35 PM   #3
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Hopefully the mods will take care of this one.


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Unread 04/04/2007, 12:29 AM   #4
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I was waiting for, "APRIL FOOLS" to come at the end of that post. But it never did... Now I'm worried


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Unread 04/04/2007, 12:34 AM   #5
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I'm sorry I can not put any weight into this question. The only thing that keeps me from thinking this is a total farse is that FuKungReefer has been a member for almost five years. One of his other posts has a much better use of English also.




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Unread 04/04/2007, 08:02 AM   #6
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Maybe its his dad's account?


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Unread 04/04/2007, 08:38 AM   #7
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im just wondering if she used table salt.


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Unread 04/04/2007, 08:44 AM   #8
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Only 3 posts since 2002?

I'd like to think that if he's old enough to stay home by himself while his parrents travel overseas, he's old enough to take care of his father's tank. Especially if his father showed him how and trusted him with his tank...

This doesn't sound real to me at all.


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Unread 04/04/2007, 09:04 AM   #9
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Get a new Father and/or a new tank.

Your father is too irresponsable to let someone care for his tank with no idea what to do.

Your tank is ruined.

Now... I know this is probably a troll thread, but in the off chance that it's not....


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Unread 04/04/2007, 09:17 AM   #10
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haha wow guys i personally thought it was kind of funny. No need to get an attitude about wasting your time? What else are you doing on RC besides wasting time? Time to stop with the reef tanks and go on that long hard search for a sense of humor


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Unread 04/04/2007, 09:26 AM   #11
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agree with Smacdone. lol its what most ppl do here just look around and read. waste of time or not, i was calling this guy so many names as i read it. If its true, whats a fool lol.

I got a laugh out of it.

just wait till we read this one day and its true. then we can all point him out

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Unread 04/04/2007, 11:44 AM   #12
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Re: I hope you can be me helping

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Originally posted by FuKungReefer
Honorable Father has left me ( Fowie ) in charge of family aquarium and I have a small problem to discuss please.

Father explained to me that I must do water change on Aquarium after one week of his and my Mothers absense overseas. I did as he ordered and removed one half of the water from the aquarium. I then used garden hose and filled aquarium to same level with fresh water. I then realise that I forgot to add salt.

WHAT TO DO! I went to kitchen and found Mothers electric cake mixer, the typw with 2 metal beaters. So I placed beaters in water and turned on cake mixer. It mad lots of water splashing and tornedo in water but I was then able to slowly add the salt that I had forgotten about earlier.

Problem now is that Anemone was sucked up into cake mixer beaters and was chopped up into a million bits!!!!!

Does this mean that many new anemones will grow from the pieces????

Any answers before Father and Mother come home next week appreciated

Fowie
By the time Father comes home you'll have upwards of 1,500 new anemones. These baby anemones (during the next full moon) will combine into one big anemone. This Master Anemone will try to find the person responsible for ripping them apart.

If I was you I would start preparing. You're going to need some duct tape, a short piece of lumber as well as a hammer.

Step 1: Duct tape your bedroom door closed.
Step 2: Use the wood to brace your door (the anemone will be very strong)
Step 3: Once the anemone breaks through your door you must hit it with the hammer square in the mid-section. If you miss he will keep coming, but if you get him he will collapse from the outside in.

Now this will work but it's going to make quite a mess so you might want to get a big tarp to lay down in your room. Let me know how it works out and I wish you luck.







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Unread 04/04/2007, 12:26 PM   #13
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That person needs Reefing 101 lol.


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Unread 04/04/2007, 12:36 PM   #14
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I am sitting here in tears from laughing so hard: first from the original post and then from the later replies. I know this is a serious forum, but c'mon. Thanks to all for a healthy laugh (I am still laughing!).


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Unread 04/04/2007, 12:41 PM   #15
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I thought it was funny and could use the laugh after reading all the serious post of things people have accidently done. Here i am thinking i am going to mess thing up one day too and along comes a funny thread.. now i dont feel so bad....lol.


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Unread 04/04/2007, 01:04 PM   #16
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Unread 04/04/2007, 01:18 PM   #17
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Gave me a chuckle.


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Unread 04/04/2007, 01:25 PM   #18
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You should have used the 'Saltwater Hose' out of the 'Saltwater Faucet'

Just drain the entire tank, and fill it back up with the saltwater hose out of the saltwater faucet and everything will be ok.

Oh, and ps. don't lick the beaters while they are on...


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Unread 04/05/2007, 12:07 AM   #19
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Well I was going to write I came home and found my girlfriend was using my sump as a water bong and was going to ask what sort of carbon you guys recommend to clean up the water, not to mention what it had done to my Goniapora.

Anyway, thanks to the people who saw the humour and raspberries to those who didn't.

See ya again in another few years

Fowie Ng


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Unread 04/05/2007, 06:06 AM   #20
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Unread 04/05/2007, 07:20 AM   #21
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LOL! I'm new to this site and was wondering if anyone ever submits crap like this. Personally I would have chosen a blender over hand beaters.


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Unread 04/05/2007, 08:43 AM   #22
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FISH ON!!!

I enjoy a good one of these every once in a while.

it sure fishes out the Uber-PC's in a hurry, and yeah, then responses get funnier than the original post.

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