What are your favorite RIDICULOUS reefing products?

[a.t.t.r]

The best and only protein skimmer your LFS would carry back in the day

Bonus points if you actually succeeded at getting skimmate

That thing made so much skimmate and so dark back at the LFS I used to work at..... Of course it was on our live rock tank with a few hundred pounds of fresh figi rock being tossed in every few weeks..

 

[Lbrdsoxfan]

This... As a child of the 70's, they were the rage!

 

[Bato367]

This hobby is definitely full of nonsensical products. Likely the biggest reason A.) the hobby can be expensive and B.) why most newbies get in and out of the hobby quickly.

I’d say most all of the ridiculous chemical additives or supplements listed above. Most are just not needed.

 

[Anemone_Fanatic]

Bagged sand.

 

[Griev]

Reef Delete been cracking me up for a while now.

As someone who got one as a gift I have mostly agree. It sort of works, but definitely not the miracle cure they make it sound like.

It does work on small ones, so it's good to use on new ones on frags before they spread, but that's about it. Absolutely doesn't kill large adult aiptasia in my experience. More details in my build thread if anyone's curious.

 

[t5Nitro]

The junk in this hobby is unreal. Success comes from time, flow, light and heat. You don't even need to do water changes. The gadgets keep it fun though.

Actually, even though I am a big tunze pump fan, things like tunze and vortech pumps are quite the scam from a price standpoint when you can get a Jebao 20 that pushes 5200 gph like a monster for 90 bucks. Longevity isn't an issue on them so far, and the magnets don't pop open.

 

[polyppal]

Harbor Freight gel super glue FTW.

Been there done that too. $2.99 for 10 bottles of superglue?! What could go wrong?!?

 

[Tamberav]

The price of corals and calling something rare when the venders seem to mostly have the same new stuff every week. Maybe people are just killing them over and over idk.

Also small GSP for 22 dollars. Get out of here. That should be a 5 dollar add on.

Putting the word Japanese on what is green Kenya tree so it sells for $100 a frag.

pricing yellowtail tamarins as if they were red tail tamarins. These are not $600 or $900 dollar fish. My LFS has had them for $60…. Same wholesaler… just online venders making it seem ultra rare. They are not deep water nor hawaii exclusive. Sure they don’t come in constantly like Diamond gobies seem to but they are also not ultra rare.

 

[polyppal]

Bagged sand.

Uh, it’s worth it because it’s ‘live’…

 

[ss30]

Bagged sand.

I take it you didn't buy your sand in a bag. In the UK all of our sand comes in bags live or not.

 

[Anemone_Fanatic]

When I say bagged sand, I mean the stuff they sell as "live". I didn't realize that it adds nothing to the biodiversity, so I used it in my tank. As far as I can tell, it just adds about a dollar per pound, and about nothing else.

 

[Paul B]

My reverse undergravel filter........But, I love the thing.

 

[polyppal]

When I say bagged sand, I mean the stuff they sell as "live". I didn't realize that it adds nothing to the biodiversity, so I used it in my tank. As far as I can tell, it just adds about a dollar per pound, and about nothing else.

at least they have pretty colors you can choose from...

if not going for a specific look, I use the dry aragonite in the xl bag thats super cheap at petco