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

[Joe Reefer]

The first thing you do in the morning and when you get home is check the tank.

[Scavenger]

What are you if you sit beside it all day, every day??????

[Joe Reefer]

Your a reefer with a good job.

[Scavenger]

Originally Posted by Joe Reefer

Your a reefer with a good job.

Ya my idea is keep your tank in your office. It's where you spend most of your waking hours. Glad I'm not still a mill worker, that wouldn't work too good.

[SeaHorse_Fanatic]

Yup, my computer desk is 8 feet away from my reef tank

[deep_six]

I have my 120 g in my office foyer, definately a hit with all the clients and it's great in the day time when you need a few minutes.Plus it is a tax write-off. The biggest drawback is I can't do any lights out predator hunting unless I plan on spending the night sleeping on my office floor. I also try to be here as little as possible on the weekends.
I've come in to my share of surprises on Monday morning though.

Mathew

[MikeP]

Your wife (if she hasn't left you) actually knows what you are talking about all the time.

[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.")