Top Ten Signs you are a Reef Addict

[tomocean]

10. You go through more towels in a week than the local YMCA.
9. You plan your vacations on whether or not there is a really cool fish store nearby.
8. You've renamed your kids Tang and Montipora.
7. Your freezer looks like something you'd find at a bait shop.
6. You know the scientific names for more species than most zoologists.
5. You actually know how to pronouce anemone and cnidarian.
4. Your mailman brings your mail while wearing a wetsuit.
3. People look at you funny when you tell them you need to kalk your tank.
2. You get more excited about one of your fish spawning than most people do about buying a new car.

And the number one sign that you may be a reef addict...

You have no money!!!!!!

[ July 30, 2001: Message edited by: tomocean ]

[ July 30, 2001: Message edited by: tomocean ]

 

[percula]

Huh... I fit that... but I thought #5 was easy?

 

[Josh's Reef]

I am #9 to a tee.

 

[MontanaRocknReefer]

More reasons to be an addict!
You go to every store that carries fish magazines and you read them in 2 days and back at the stores but the new ones are not out yet!!!!
You burn out more flashlight batteries than you have ever done looking at your reef at night.
Johnny

 

[Anonymous]

How about this one -

11) You scoff at paying $20 for some necessary household item, but don't blink an eye when dropping $200 on some reef equipment...

or -

12) You avoid going away on vacations because of your reef tank...

 

[Nathan1]

Hmmm...

Beer... or fish supplies... beer... or fish supplies...

Hmmm...

 

[M.E.Milz]

13) You spend more on vitamins and supplements for your Reef/Fish tank then you do on yourself.

14) You have no problem drinking tap water, but you must use purified water for your Reef/Fish tanks.

15) You would rather brown-bag lunch for a week so that you had a few $$ to spend at the LFS.

16) You test your Reef/Fish tank about 100 times more often than you go to the doctor or dentist for a check-up.

17) You get really excited about the shape of live rock.

 

[cindywennin]

How about this:
You actually know what live rock is when most people think it is another 'pet rock' phase.

 

[tubs]

Not only will you have no money but no credit left in your credit cards. So what do you do with these no longer useful credit cards - you use them as algae scrapers

 

[Nathan1]

I'm the only one in town who knows what the following acronyms are:

MH, VHO, PC, NO, RO/DI, ALK, CA, PH, pH, HD Sand, LR, FOWLR, SPS, LPS, LFS...

-Nathan

 

[SPC]

You walk into your LFS and one of the employees yells across the store, "hey Steve come here and see this new Caulerpa thats comming out of this rock". You hustle over there, along with 3 other people that heard this, and he points to a 1/4" pc of Caulerpa and you both become fascinated while the other people are asking "what are you looking at". You point it out to them and they give no response and slowly walk away, but you don't even notice because you are fixated on this tiny little pc of algae.

 

[srbayless]

You know you are a reef addict when you walk into a LFS, and all the staff leave you alone because they know you know more than they do.

Scott.

 

[reefworm]

18] You vehemently deny that you are a reef addict.

 

[M.E.Milz]

Most of the employees at all of the LFS's within a 30 mile radius of your home recognize your voice over the telephone and call you by your first name as soon as you say "Hello".

 

[whirley]

You know your a reef addict when: you keep
on clicking on the "refresh" button on the
general discussion webpage, hoping for new discussions.

whirley

 

[Modo]

....can't remember your girlfriend's/wife's birthday, but remember the exact day-hour-minute you last checked those water params.

....your house gets broken into and the first thing you check is your tank.

....failed Chemistry in college, but can give the chemical make-up of natural seawater off the top of your head.

....have more chairs arranged around the front of your tank than around your dining room table.

....don't have a dining room, now is reverently called "Fish Room".

 

[grimreefer1]

You might be a reef addict if...

there are oily forehead and nose marks on your glass.

you have completely given up wearing lotion (I'm a girl, can you tell?)

you refuse to date anyone who isn't into fish - can you say codependent?

 

[danmhippo]

Funny, Last Tuesday my office got broken into. Sheriff was accompanying me to go inside to take a look at the loses.

As the Sheriff crawled under what's left of the entry doors, Sheriff turned around and ask me "What are you doing?"

I replied "There is a small piece of glass got into my tank, see that....right by the pink colt coral. I just need to find something to scoop it out....."

 

[Anonymous]

You always read the classifieds even though you do not need anything, just so you do not miss a great deal

You no longer watch TV just the tank and check the BB

Your non fish friends give you that look

if you even start to discuss the reef.

Macaroni and Cheese is a viable diet so you can get that new great thing that you do not need.

 

[Anonymous]

I knew I would remember another right when I hit post.

The last 100 searches you have done on the internet are all latin species names of fish and invertebrates