The Stages of Reef Addiction... *fun*

[Xtasia]

Phase one: OMG NEMO!!
Symptoms:
- Believe Clownfish (ocellaris' specifically) were the end all and be all of fishes.
- Smile affectionately when people calls clowns "nemo" in LFS.
- Do not know what LFS actually means....
- "air bubbles" for circulation.
- 20g is big.


Phase Two: Hello! Fish snob!
Symptoms:
- Don't understand people's obsession with corals.
- Fish are SOOOooo much cooler!!!1!1! Fish move!
- Believe corals are impossible to keep alive.
- Spend hours looking at Fish in tank. ‘Hey, look.. there's my nemo...’


Phase three: New Tang Syndrome.
Symptoms:
- See corals in LFS when shopping for fish. Interest peaked.
- Stock tank to the GILLS with fish. It’s 3 fish for every inch right?
- Parameters are always “good” but somehow new tank syndrome manages to occur.
- Key target of the Tang police. Buy 3 for the 20g anyways.
-50g is big.

Phase four: I <3 Xenia.
- Buy first coral.. xenia. of course....
- Start to feel mildly annoyed when people call all orange fish "nemos".
- Bookmark Reefcentral picture threads of unattainable and horrendously expensive corals.
- Begin obsessive hunt for new corals in LFS.
- Discover coral prices, faint.

Phase five: WTB Fish Sugar Daddy.
Symptoms:
- SPS are just those expensive “painted rocks”
- Buy some easy care Corals. Zoos, Mushrooms, and Leathers.
- Start to look to upgrade lights..
- Find out what a Sump, Fuge, overflow, and Kalkwasser Reactor is.
- Attempt your first DIY.
- 120g is big.

Phase six: Nemo who?
Symptoms:
- Visit canreef more than 6 times a day. (I know you are out there).
- Resign yourself to being poor.
- Start selling off your fish to make space for more Corals.
- Ripping out the Xenia which has infested your tank. Throwing it away.
- Nemo who? Sell off your Ocellaris and get a different type of clown. Maybe a Maroon.
- Always hunting for the ULTIMATE next coral.
- Must have Tunze wavebox.
- Must have the newest reef gadget on the market and am willing beta test up and coming products
- I can build that <insert gadget name> myself for a tenth of the retail price
- 2000g is big.

Phase Seven: Fragmart.
Symptoms:
- Become frag krazy. Love to frag corals. Love to trade with others.
- OMG Superman Danae! <3 SPS!!!
- Dropping $300 online for 2 pieces the size of a quarter is no object.
- On personal terms with EVERY LFS in town.
- Eat Soda crackers and Kraft dinner so that your fish may have tiger prawns and scallops.
- Justify each purchase by “I will sell off a frag of X to pay for it”…
- Binford powered DIY SUPER WAVEMAKER for flow.
- 20000k with 1000watts per gallon.
- Plumbing through walls, floors likely.
- The ocean is big.

Phase Eight: The Apocalpse
Symptoms:
- Run out of money.
- Significant other has threatened to leave you. (After Alimony payments and child support, you wouldn’t have any coral money anyways..)
- Crack in the tank.
- Moving to Siberia where UPS does not deliver.
- Boredom.

Any additions?