What's your PITA list?

[FINWIN]

It can be fishkeeping in general, or something related to the forum.

For me, it's cleaning muddy filters.

Cleaning substrate with lots of plants.

Being referee to bull headed cichlids.

W/C schedule for Oscars north of a foot.

People who come here begging for help like it's an emergency, then disappear into cyberspace.

 

[MultipleTankSyndrome]

When I have to wait a ridiculously long time for the pet store to order in a species I'm looking to get.

When fish get sick, for any reason.

When the Pythons/siphons I use for tank cleaning get a mind of their own and drain water anywhere other than either the bucket/sink (when removing old water) or the tank (when putting new water in).

When a fish I buy as one species is actually another that isn't quite what I'm after.

When equipment breaks.

When I have to vacuum the detritus from my planted tank and the siphon spreads the detritus around instead of sucking it up.

Certainly there are more that have yet to come to mind,

 

[aussieman57]

Snowbirds
Stupidity

 

[Jexnell]

Cannister filters

 

[MetalRavioli]

Gravel siphoning planted tanks, I try very hard to NOT uproot any plants

 

[esoxlucius]

The number one pita gripe for me, and I dare say thousands of other serious hobbyists with MTS, is not having enough space for more tanks!

 

[Randles]

What minimum tank size would be ok for............?

 

[Milingu]

Moving with aquariums is a real pain...

 

[kno4te]

Moving with aquariums is a real pain...

This and not enough aquariums at the same time. Which contradicts each other a bit.

 

[jjohnwm]

Fish you spend years hunting down...and which you begin to find boring within the first year.

Fish that you put a ton of effort into breeding...but they won't do it.

Fish that you have so many of that you start using them as feeders...but they won't stop doing it!

People who ask a question, receive a dozen similar answers to it...and who then proceed to do the exact opposite of what a dozen experienced people suggested because their sister's neighbour's kid's teacher's mailman's wife heard that it would be "fine". The technical term for a person like this is an "ask-hole".

People who feel that the liberal application of large sums of cash to a problem can completely eliminate the need to actually have some clue as to what they are doing.

People who insist upon over-complicating even the simplest plan.

People who over-simplify extremely complex ideas.

People who spend so much time thinking about grandiose plans that they never actually do anything.

People who...well, actually...just people!