The gods of coral reef aquariums are wrathful. They do not appreciate any display of confidence, comfort, or excitement for the hobby. You must respect them to succeed in this hobby. Here are some rules I have learned to follow that helps me avoid their wrath:
•切勿分享您对新鱼类或珊瑚的兴奋，直到被隔离了两个月，成功地引入了您的礁石，并幸福地共存了至少一年。如果您吹嘘自己的新购买或更快地分享照片，它将死亡。众神不希望你感到兴奋或喜悦。只有当您对此收购感到无聊时，共享它才能接受。
• Never name your fish. If your adorable child gives any of your fish a cute name, tell that child he/she has just sentenced that fish to a horrible death. It will emotionally scar them, but those scars will protect the fate of future fish acquisitions.
•切勿将珊瑚碎片给朋友，目的是为坦克撞车创建备用资源……您的坦克会崩溃。实际上，众神也将摧毁您朋友的坦克，以榜样。取而代之的是，您只是为了地狱而散发碎片。保持动机的秘密。
•永远不要休假。如果您决定在周末与家人一起在海滩上放松身心，那么您的坦克就会崩溃。那个钙反应器已经完美无缺，现在将堵塞并爆炸。然后，当水被水流到您的新硬木上时，顶级泵将用加仑的Kalkwasser补充。您将回家一个死去的腌制坦克。
• Always ignore your tank. When you are too busy to even think about your tank, it will thrive. Your Bangaii cardinalfish will barf beautiful babies into your refugium. That finicky pearlberry Acropora will triple in size. These positive trends will inevitably renew your interest in reef aquaria; and you will suddenly want to tinker. As soon as you do, the reefkeeping angels of death will be at your return pump.
• Never compile a list of “Must-Have” fish or coral. They will turn out to be the very organisms that are impossible for you to keep. You could have a Domino Damsel on your wish list, and it will succumb in a tank where an Orange-Spotted Filefish is thriving on flake food.
• If you are smart enough to use a quarantine tank, it must be ghetto and nasty. If your quarantine tank resembles some people’s display tank, your fish will get sick and die. If it is undersized and covered in algae, it will heal your fish of all things.
If you haven’t figured out by now that I’m trying to be humorous, now you do. I think every reef hobbyist can relate to one or all of these. If you have any tips on other ways to appease the reef lords, please do share them in the comments!
这个故事最初出现在2012年2月，从那时起，我们肯定提出了更多的方法来使Aquagods感到高兴。
