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Good Color
Seller: All colors of the rainbow combined, as in Brown
Buyer: Lights up like a Vegas neon sign under two year old bulbs
Hardy
Seller: Will live long enough to make it into a bag and out the door
Buyer: Will be kicking it with the cockroaches after WWIII
Fast Growing
Seller 1: If you keep it long enough it will get bigger or 2)
Seller 2: the #*&% thing is taking over my tank and I am conning a piece of it off to you and you are actually paying for it. “Sucker.”
Buyer: I will be fragging the daylights out of it and making money within a week
Reef safe (livestock)
Seller: Morey Eels and anything else that can be dredged from the ocean.
Buyer: The most fascinating docile creature ever created
Reef safe (materials & equipment)
Seller: Normal stuff at 5 times the price to pay for the lawyer to defend against frivolous claims by incompetent reefers who will blame seller for their tank crashing
Buyer: Will not react with anything, as in helium or platinum
Quiet Return Pump
Seller: Cannot be heard over 50 motorcycles racing through the living room
Buyer: Paint drying will be louder
Pump Rating (GPH)
Seller: Flow tested overdriving the pump with 500 volts and pumping down hill through 3 inch drain pipe siphoning through the impeller
Buyer: I will get this flow on a 30 foot run through airline tube from my basement sump to the second floor display tank.
Coral Y is Compatible With Coral X
Seller: Can be placed on the opposite ends of an eight foot tank
Buyer: Symbiotic
Tank Size Required for Fish X
Seller: Powder Blue Tangs do great in a 55 gallon
Buyer: That Powder Blue will do great in my 55 gallon
Note: Both buyer and seller are messed up here. Poor fish.
Live Rock
Seller 1: Once had living matter on it and will generate ammonia and phosphate once submerged in a salt water and therefore generate life
Seller 2: Basalt lava rock (extremely dense, inert, and non porous) submerged in a holding tank with other “live rock” thereby making live rock.
Buyer: Porous, lighter than air, 110% coralline algae coverage, only beneficial hitchhikers, and not less than 1 bonus coral frag per pound
FTD Free (Frag Transmitted Disease)
Seller: No monkey see, no monkey hear, no monkey do
Buyer: Sterile yet living
Frag
Seller: Miniscule piece of dying coral duct taped to a phosphate laden rock
Buyer: 10 inch tall flourishing colony
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Good Color
Seller: All colors of the rainbow combined, as in Brown
Buyer: Lights up like a Vegas neon sign under two year old bulbs
Hardy
Seller: Will live long enough to make it into a bag and out the door
Buyer: Will be kicking it with the cockroaches after WWIII
Fast Growing
Seller 1: If you keep it long enough it will get bigger or 2)
Seller 2: the #*&% thing is taking over my tank and I am conning a piece of it off to you and you are actually paying for it. “Sucker.”
Buyer: I will be fragging the daylights out of it and making money within a week
Reef safe (livestock)
Seller: Morey Eels and anything else that can be dredged from the ocean.
Buyer: The most fascinating docile creature ever created
Reef safe (materials & equipment)
Seller: Normal stuff at 5 times the price to pay for the lawyer to defend against frivolous claims by incompetent reefers who will blame seller for their tank crashing
Buyer: Will not react with anything, as in helium or platinum
Quiet Return Pump
Seller: Cannot be heard over 50 motorcycles racing through the living room
Buyer: Paint drying will be louder
Pump Rating (GPH)
Seller: Flow tested overdriving the pump with 500 volts and pumping down hill through 3 inch drain pipe siphoning through the impeller
Buyer: I will get this flow on a 30 foot run through airline tube from my basement sump to the second floor display tank.
Coral Y is Compatible With Coral X
Seller: Can be placed on the opposite ends of an eight foot tank
Buyer: Symbiotic
Tank Size Required for Fish X
Seller: Powder Blue Tangs do great in a 55 gallon
Buyer: That Powder Blue will do great in my 55 gallon
Note: Both buyer and seller are messed up here. Poor fish.
Live Rock
Seller 1: Once had living matter on it and will generate ammonia and phosphate once submerged in a salt water and therefore generate life
Seller 2: Basalt lava rock (extremely dense, inert, and non porous) submerged in a holding tank with other “live rock” thereby making live rock.
Buyer: Porous, lighter than air, 110% coralline algae coverage, only beneficial hitchhikers, and not less than 1 bonus coral frag per pound
FTD Free (Frag Transmitted Disease)
Seller: No monkey see, no monkey hear, no monkey do
Buyer: Sterile yet living
Frag
Seller: Miniscule piece of dying coral duct taped to a phosphate laden rock
Buyer: 10 inch tall flourishing colony
Please post your own additions in reply.