Contest: Top 10 signs your reef has invaded your life
- Thread starter Josh
- Start date
Your late for work because 5AM is the best time to see your sand sifting sea cucumber.
You don't have money to go out with inlaws, but you have recieved a "tank" package everyday they have been staying with you.
Your daughter explains the proper names of all the fish at school.
She wants a GTBA because she understands the relationship with a clown fish.
You don't have money to go out with inlaws, but you have recieved a "tank" package everyday they have been staying with you.
Your daughter explains the proper names of all the fish at school.
She wants a GTBA because she understands the relationship with a clown fish.
1. You meet your future wife at the frag swap
2. Your Bridal registry is at the local fish store
3. You honeymoon in tahiti and spend all day SCUBA diving
4. You return your "unregistered" wedding gifts and buy a 200g reeftank
5. You lie to your wife about the actual price of the corals you start to buy
6. You begin exhibiting nesting behaviors, and are convinced you can breed perculas for money.
7. You put your "downpayment" for a new condo into the breeding business.
8. You lose all your money in the breeding business and wife files for divorce.
9. Wife gets the car, the silverware and the hope chest, you get the fishtanks.
10. You die of a broken heart. You are dumped at sea to be eaten by a school of trigger fish.
2. Your Bridal registry is at the local fish store
3. You honeymoon in tahiti and spend all day SCUBA diving
4. You return your "unregistered" wedding gifts and buy a 200g reeftank
5. You lie to your wife about the actual price of the corals you start to buy
6. You begin exhibiting nesting behaviors, and are convinced you can breed perculas for money.
7. You put your "downpayment" for a new condo into the breeding business.
8. You lose all your money in the breeding business and wife files for divorce.
9. Wife gets the car, the silverware and the hope chest, you get the fishtanks.
10. You die of a broken heart. You are dumped at sea to be eaten by a school of trigger fish.
1. Your fiance offers to postpone the honeymoon when your fish comes down with ich 2 weeks before the wedding.
2. You become so infuriated reading the latest Zuska thread that you lash out at those close to you for no reason.
3. You consider anyone on MR with more than 2000 posts something of a minor celebrity.
4. You arouse the suspicion of police by participating in curbside cash-for-coral transactions.
5. Your apartment is raided because DEA agents were SURE that all those lights were being used to grow pot.
6. "No honey, its natural. Of COURSE the wood floors are warped. Thats just what happens to wood floors"
7. "I think I'll just head over to the petstore on my lunch break and look around"
8. You can't go out to dinner because you need to get home and acclimate your sea slug right away.
9. You would be more upset if you found ammonia in your tank than if you found carbon monoxide in your apartment.
10. You spend time wondering which client to bill for the time you spent writing your "MR Top Ten" list at work.
2. You become so infuriated reading the latest Zuska thread that you lash out at those close to you for no reason.
3. You consider anyone on MR with more than 2000 posts something of a minor celebrity.
4. You arouse the suspicion of police by participating in curbside cash-for-coral transactions.
5. Your apartment is raided because DEA agents were SURE that all those lights were being used to grow pot.
6. "No honey, its natural. Of COURSE the wood floors are warped. Thats just what happens to wood floors"
7. "I think I'll just head over to the petstore on my lunch break and look around"
8. You can't go out to dinner because you need to get home and acclimate your sea slug right away.
9. You would be more upset if you found ammonia in your tank than if you found carbon monoxide in your apartment.
10. You spend time wondering which client to bill for the time you spent writing your "MR Top Ten" list at work.
- Location
- Forest Hills
when all the kids point to a clown fish and yells "NEMO!!!"
yours yell "Amphiprion percula!!!"
yours yell "Amphiprion percula!!!"
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- Location
- Dingmans ferry PA
you have a picture of your system on your computer and none of your significant other
- Location
- Overland Park, KS
You refuse to go on vacation ever again because the last time you left, your tank crashed; the only vacation for which you might possibly break this rule is one in which you spend the ENTIRE time underwater, and the only condition under which you would agree to such a vacation is if an MR buddy is living in your house while you are gone.
You are most proud of your children not because they sing like Broadway stars or speak, read and write multiple languages, but because they are more interested in staring at the refugium/sump than at the tank and will regale any and all visitors with the names of all the animals in the tank before scurrying off to play dress up...
When expecting company, you make sure the tank is gorgeous and perfect before cleaning the apartment or yourself!
Any friends who have "problems with fish" (such people ~do~ exist!) never are invited over!!!!!
You decide to put your 75 gallon fish tank in your dining room so that when anybody walks into the apartment, it is the FIRST thing they see.
You decide you can go one more day without lotion because you just might decide to put your hands in the tank (of ~course~ you'll put your hands in the tank!!!!!)
You are most proud of your children not because they sing like Broadway stars or speak, read and write multiple languages, but because they are more interested in staring at the refugium/sump than at the tank and will regale any and all visitors with the names of all the animals in the tank before scurrying off to play dress up...
When expecting company, you make sure the tank is gorgeous and perfect before cleaning the apartment or yourself!
Any friends who have "problems with fish" (such people ~do~ exist!) never are invited over!!!!!
You decide to put your 75 gallon fish tank in your dining room so that when anybody walks into the apartment, it is the FIRST thing they see.
You decide you can go one more day without lotion because you just might decide to put your hands in the tank (of ~course~ you'll put your hands in the tank!!!!!)
- Location
- NYC - 10026
your sidewalks are frozen over and your cakes won't rise but alkalinity and calcium levels are spot on
5 gallon buckets don't seem out of place in the living room
even your wife has flooded the kitchen making RO/DI
you watch TV wrapped in a blanket; the a/c is on full power to keep the tank cool
at night you can pick out your window from 5 blocks away
Other people complain about rats and roaches in their apartments, you know real meaning of pest - aiptasia, flatworms, etc
5 gallon buckets don't seem out of place in the living room
even your wife has flooded the kitchen making RO/DI
you watch TV wrapped in a blanket; the a/c is on full power to keep the tank cool
at night you can pick out your window from 5 blocks away
Other people complain about rats and roaches in their apartments, you know real meaning of pest - aiptasia, flatworms, etc
- Location
- 11756
You start using reef related pick up lines to pick up girls such as "Can I spank your wrasse?!"
Thats all i've got...
Thats all i've got...
When your tank/equipment accounts for 35 sq ft of your 350 sq ft. apt.
When you train your dog to wake you up if a fish jumps out of the tank.
When you go out to RiteAid to buy $20 polarized sunglasses at midnight just to try to figure out if the bottom of the tank is tempered.
When you risk being arrested for taking your CO2 tank on the train to get it refilled.
When you bribe you super to keep him quiet because your lease doesn't allow aquariums.
When you patronize businesses only because they have reef tanks.
When your DVR is loaded with discovery channel coral reefs specials.
When walking the dog always results in a trip to the LFS.
When you train your dog to wake you up if a fish jumps out of the tank.
When you go out to RiteAid to buy $20 polarized sunglasses at midnight just to try to figure out if the bottom of the tank is tempered.
When you risk being arrested for taking your CO2 tank on the train to get it refilled.
When you bribe you super to keep him quiet because your lease doesn't allow aquariums.
When you patronize businesses only because they have reef tanks.
When your DVR is loaded with discovery channel coral reefs specials.
When walking the dog always results in a trip to the LFS.
bad coffee
Inept at life.
- Location
- Location: Location:
. . . When you look at ANYTHING, you can figure out a use for it around the tank.
- Location
- Dingmans ferry PA
going to go there ...when mating clown fish gets u more excited then porn :lol2:
OctaviousMonk
Sucka Free Reefin' !!!
- Location
- Westwood, NJ
When you go to Ikea and purchase a kitchen cabinet to match your stand and a wicker basket to hide your doser, ATO and other assorted fish crap
You purchase an extra flashlight for night viewing because you don't want to have to share yours
You know exactly which Home depot in your area has which plumbing pieces, where to find them and what they cost.
The employees at said home depots know you as that fish guy.
When you have a 20 gallon rubbermaid garbage can on wheels filled with water in your hallway closet "aging", with wires for a power head and air pump coming out from under the door.
When you change the electrical sockets in the living room of your rental to GFCIs
When you change the shower head in your rental to the hand held kind with an extra long hose so you can wash out fish equipment better.
When your fish tank has it's own personal set of towels.
When the sounds of silence in the fish room wake you up in a worried panic.
When you are out at red lobster and you can name every distorted fish and sea creature they are trying to portray on their ugly seat fabric
You purchase an extra flashlight for night viewing because you don't want to have to share yours
You know exactly which Home depot in your area has which plumbing pieces, where to find them and what they cost.
The employees at said home depots know you as that fish guy.
When you have a 20 gallon rubbermaid garbage can on wheels filled with water in your hallway closet "aging", with wires for a power head and air pump coming out from under the door.
When you change the electrical sockets in the living room of your rental to GFCIs
When you change the shower head in your rental to the hand held kind with an extra long hose so you can wash out fish equipment better.
When your fish tank has it's own personal set of towels.
When the sounds of silence in the fish room wake you up in a worried panic.
When you are out at red lobster and you can name every distorted fish and sea creature they are trying to portray on their ugly seat fabric
- Location
- Staten Island
After going on MR for a couple of hours you stare at your tank and check the parameters than go to bed because it's that late DAILY...And oh yeah you average over 300 post a month...
Your the only one in your house that doesn't hear the loud humm of the pumps and fans.....
Your the only one in your house that doesn't hear the loud humm of the pumps and fans.....
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- Location
- Huntington
When you no longer give submerging high wattage electrical devices in water a second thought for your safety.
When you have "pets" named "Alien Eye" and "Gorilla Nipples" and so do your friends.
When you couldn't care less that your girlfriend is giving you dirty looks behind your back because you have to go out but you still need to do your nightly tank rituals.
When you have "pets" named "Alien Eye" and "Gorilla Nipples" and so do your friends.
When you couldn't care less that your girlfriend is giving you dirty looks behind your back because you have to go out but you still need to do your nightly tank rituals.
- Location
- poughquag, ny
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when your fish tank cost more than your car.:biglaugh:
when your no longer married cause of your hobby
when you know more about your tank than your kids
if you ever say this is the last piece i will buy{ of coral not booty }
when your fish tank cost more than your car.:biglaugh:
when your no longer married cause of your hobby
when you know more about your tank than your kids
if you ever say this is the last piece i will buy{ of coral not booty }
Dj Orion's Top 5
5. When you wake up in the morning and floss your teeth with an anemone.
4. You dress in bright neon colors in order to blend in to your furniture and decor.
3. Instead of kissing your signifigant other, you blow bubbles at each other.
2. After a hard days work, you take a shot of stress coat.
1. You are constantly pulling copepods out of your hairbrush.
5. When you wake up in the morning and floss your teeth with an anemone.
4. You dress in bright neon colors in order to blend in to your furniture and decor.
3. Instead of kissing your signifigant other, you blow bubbles at each other.
2. After a hard days work, you take a shot of stress coat.
1. You are constantly pulling copepods out of your hairbrush.
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