Top Ten Signs you are a Reef Addict

[Quillen]

How about .. you start to tell a really funny fish story and everyone looks at you so oddly that you just give up, then go to your LFS or the board where people laugh.

People of the oppisite sex know the days that you do a water change and conviently come by, because you consider an acceptable outfit for water changing about 1/2 what you would wear any other day.

A romantic evening is spending an evening home on the couch.... looking at your fish tank.

You decide you like a song strictly on that it has "fish" in it.

One room or more is decorated in realistic looking fish themes.

 

[dawgfish]

.....your wife no longer believes the corals you are bringing home are free door prizes

 

[G7subs]

-When your neighbors question "that strange bluish light eminating from your upstairs window in the middle of the day".

-When your electric meter spins like a buzz saw.

 

[jamesw]

Grimreefer. I'm single, and a reefkeeper. Wonder if there is a connection there!

Maybe we need a support group?

My name's James, and I'm a reefaholic.

Hope the weather's just fine in SF. I lived in Berkeley for six wonderful years! Now I live in Texas and I sweat!



Cheers
James

 

[danmhippo]

When you are still posting to this board past midnight your time.....and people (including your spouse) all believe you are surfing the porn sites and just afraid to tell!!

 

[Carpentersreef]

I haven't laughed this much in a long time! You people are hilarious!!!

Mitch

 

[eaglet]

lol

that was good man. Job well done E-Man

 

[fishfarmer]

You buy a computer JUST to browse the reef boards

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[Len]

You actually understand the humor in this thread (and I do)

 

[JohnD]

Great list. Here is another suggestion:

You take up scuba just so you can be closer to your critters' natural environment.

 

[Mickes]

When you sleep on the couch next to the tank instead of the bed next to your wife.

 

[davelin315]

An addition to g7subs - the police knock on your door and ask you if they can send the drug dog through your house and the neighborhood kids get grounded for going near your house.....

Also, my own original addition -

People whisper about how unfortunate it is that you've gone insane after you tell them about your plans to seal your basement, flood it with saltwater, put in a reef, and scuba dive.....

 

[EmilyB]

When you can spend 15 minutes watching your skimmers performing.

When your alley is paved with old crushed coral.

When your garbage has more TWP cartridges than booze bottles.

When your carpets cease to have any importance in life, beyond the ability to soak up water.

When your dog shoves between you and the tank to get some attention.

When you finally decide you could, maybe, give away an empty salt bucket. You never know, you may need 30.

 

[gazpep]

* When you arrive home from the Office and turn right to check out the tank...then after all is OK turn left to greet the family in the adjoining room. Then put your bag away ( sad but true ).

* When all the reading material on the bedside table is reef related( sad but true again).

* When you're on the Christmas vacation, sitting on the beach dreaming how you could transfer that beautiful blue water into your tank ( sad but true again).

Gee I'm a sad case.

 

[Jrsydevi1]

When you find it impossible to walk past ANY light fixture, water container, bit of tubing, suction cup, pipe, fitting...etc. in any store, garage sale, or garbage pile without instantly assessing it as to the possibility of it being beneficial to the collective reef, and if so, immediately assimilating it..

We Are The Reef.
Resistance Is Futile..

 

[DaktariEd]

...when the scratch you just put in the front of your acrylic tank causes you more grief than the ugly dent some nimrod recently put in the fender of your car.

or...

...when the death of one of your fish sends into a depression, and friends & family "just don't understand."

Ed

 

[tetra]

came home early on our first date to feed the fishes.

 

[Spikehs]

here's my little addition

- People no longer call you by your real name but call you "Deuce" (happens to me all the time)

-Instead of going to the local tanning salon your wife/daughter stands by your tank for a little bit!

 

[Modo]

On that note...

....your sex life consists of watching plooms of snail spawn just before lights-out.

....couldn't make it to see your niece being born because your Cardinal just released his frye.

 

[scubadiver11]

you voluntarily spend $22.99 on a purple lobster that you can only see with a flashlight and an act of contortionism.