Top Ten Signs you are a Reef Addict

[Anonymous]

- You drop what you're doing every 20 mins, to run over to the tank & check out the "latest developments".

- Once your tank is matured somewhat, you become instantly dissatisfied, in that your tank is "too small", and you feel a strong urge to start planning for a bigger system.

- When you think of your "dream house", how it would accomodate reef systems is the first consideration that comes to mind.

- When you dream of winning the lottery, what sort of reef system you'd build is the first consideration that comes to mind.

- When family members speak to you while you're looking at the tank, you give an automatic, distracted reply, without removing your eyes from the tank.

 

[danmhippo]

When your wife banishes the tank from the house.............I have to move it to the office.

 

[bigtank]

When you routinely spend an hour or more looking at and messing with your tank.

When you have nearly run out of room in a 70 gallon aquarium and want to add a lot more equipment and animals.

When you are one of very few people in town who actually know what SPS are and want to get some. But you can't because the town you live in is too small...

When you are planning to get an American Express card when you turn 18, for the sole purpose of buying reef stuff online.

When your parents don't understand you at all.

When you are 17 years old and already hooked for life.

 

[Chucker]

Moved to The Sump.

 

[Anonymous]

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Jrsydevi1:
<STRONG>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..</STRONG><HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

 

[JennM]

You know you're a reef addict when:

You have tank(s) in your bedroom (and living room, and dining room)

You get eyestrain from looking at tank, microscope, tank, microscope...

You have more tanks/buckets full of "feeder" things, than you have show tanks.

You begin to consider charging admission to your house, to help support the habit.

You're on a first-name basis with the UPS/FEDEX man, who now asks when baby seahorses are due.

Your primary school aged children know more Latin than the local priest.

Your primary school children know more about fish and corals than the average LFS employee. (I love to take my kids to OTHER LFS -besides the one where *I* work-)

Your fish and corals have a more varied diet than you do.

Your hands are permanently "pruned" from being in the water so much.

Your non-reefing friends decide to plan an 'intervention'....

 

[Anonymous]

This deserves a bump...

 

[trido]

When your refrigerator has been running at 50 degrees for three days and you're more concerned about the $10 bottle of phytoplankton than the $100 of groceries.

 

[64Ivy]

...You can spot Julian Sprung in a crowd at 50 yards but wouldn't know Russell Crowe if you stepped on him.

...Your Significant Other standing naked between you and your tank actually blocks your view.

...The speed dial number you use for your LFS used to be your Mother-In-Laws.

...You have ever given more than one seconds' thought as to whether one of your fish is having a birthday.

...You think the one thing The Sopranos is missing is a FOWLR somewhere in Tony's bedroom.

 

[MartinE]

You cant cook a darn thing but love all the uses of a turkey baster.

Not having a chiller you adjust the heat, or air in your home to keep the tank at a stable temp.

You do not even have to turn on a lamp in a room to find your way around anymore cause your tanks lite the way.

You actually follow the weather across the country to make sure your livestock shipper is not going to get into bad weather trouble when shipping your stuff.

 

[Anonymous]

Good bump Cheese....

 

[londonloco]

Wet sleeves.........

 

[Anonymous]

The first thing you check when you come home from a long vacation is not the mail, bills, etc., but the tank...

 

[Anonymous]

Family and friends stop coming over because all you do is make them stare at the tank with you

you have learned more chemistry owning this tank than you ever did in school

You can name every creature in your tank by its latin name, but still cant remember your spouses birthday

every 5 purchases on your credit card statement are tank related

your children will need to get a scholarship because the college fund is gone

You spend most of your vacations on the phone checking in with the caretaker of your tank

You have named a fish

You have more test kits than the high school science department

you have tasted the salt mix

salt, iodine, calcium are no longer a condiment, antibacterial medicine, or milk in your current understanding

You laugh at freshwater tanks

and you post here everyday!

 

[EB847]

you skake up a plastic bottle of soda and wonder what the skimmate would look like if it had a collection cup (happened to me today)

 

[brandon4291]

you have been placed on formal warnings for workplace reefs-dot-org'ing...twice.



brandon429

 

[Anonymous]

Chapped hands.

 

[Anonymous]

Chapped hands.

8O sorry, that kind of description belongs in the sump.

 

[Anonymous]

I knew that some one would take that the wrong way. :lol:

Let's change that to dry hands, then.

 

[gregx]

If your not a reefer then your a bastard.