You know your a reefer when.......

[michika]

- When you compare funny dog/pet related smells to what your skimmate smells like.

- When the first thing you do while house hunting, is figure how big of a tank you could have.

- When you sit in a hardware store for hours on end debating how to plumb up your tank.

- When you cut your grocery & entertainment budget to purchase a new fish, coral, or equipment.

- Everytime you come upon a sale you think of how you can use the items for your tank.

[Scavenger]

- When you compare funny dog/pet related smells to what your skimmate smells like. Not Guilty

- When the first thing you do while house hunting, is figure how big of a tank you could have. Guilty

- When you sit in a hardware store for hours on end debating how to plumb up your tank. Guilty

- When you cut your grocery & entertainment budget to purchase a new fish, coral, or equipment. Guilty

- Everytime you come upon a sale you think of how you can use the items for your tank. Not Guilty

3 out of 5. Time for therapy

[Delphinus]

Guilty of all of the above.

I'll add to the pile (just what I can come up with right now, I'm sure there are others):

- You live in a place like Calgary (where we call 10% relative humidity "rain") and yet you own a dehumidifier, because your tanks evaporate so much. You get strange looks at Sears/Hardware Stores/etc. when you ask for a dehumidifier because NOBODY needs one of those.

- Your dehumidifier can't keep up, so you don't bat an eye at dropping a couple grand on a HRV to keep the humidity down in your house. Hey, it's this or give up the tanks. So it's a no-brainer! Credit cards and line of credits whoohoo!

- You daydream at the prospect of upgrading your ballasts to HQI. Nobody around you knows what you're talking about but you even say "HQI" in a hallowed whisper due to the fact that they're sacred.

- You can't function at work without checking your favourite boards every 10 minutes. 10 minutes of productivity, 20 minutes of downtime. You convince yourself that because of that 20 minutes of downtime, your far more productive in that 10 minutes you are productive, than you would be in the same 30 minute period without checking the boards (actually, this might be true, because you'd be thinking "I wonder what's new on the board.")

[michika]

I'm guilty of the dehumidifier!
Also guilty of the repetative board checking, although I do it while studying, and in class. Horrible horrible habit.

[SeaHorse_Fanatic]

You know you're a reefer when you decide to buy the place you're renting instead of risking moving the reef tank & risking casualties.

Anthony

[Scavenger]

Originally Posted by SeaHorse_Fanatic

You know you're a reefer when you decide to buy the place you're renting instead of risking moving the reef tank & risking casualties.

Anthony

WE HAVE A WINNER!!!!!

[Midknight]

Originally Posted by SeaHorse_Fanatic

You know you're a reefer when you decide to buy the place you're renting instead of risking moving the reef tank & risking casualties.

Anthony

Then you decide... Well since I own the place I can get a bigger tank and move your corals any way.

[tang daddy]

um tell your g-friend or wife that you're goin out for a walk with the dog but actually visit all the lfs to see what's new. (this also works with takin the kids!)

Sit infront of your tank for countless hrs staring wishing you had a bigger one with one of everything.

Come home from work just to feed your tanks say hi to the fishies and then double back shush don't tell my boss