_ShotgunShrimp_
03/12/2003, 11:30 PM
here you go skip sift :)
You know your a reef addict WHEN
...You tell your freinds you cant go out drinking with them because you have to acclimate your new snails.
...Your tank lights come on and you can turn the lights out in the two connecting rooms.
...You call in sick for work so you can go trade corals at the LFS
...Your spouse puts you in the dog-house because you just blew $400 bucks on bulbs but she hasn't gotten any flowers in months (or years )
...You spend an hour peering into your reef tank with a special home made, red lens flash light at 1:00 am. looking for new life forms...
...You get excited about getting bugs and worms in the mail
...Your feelings about Rio powerheads are more passionate than your feelings about your girlfriend.
...Your begin to think that 4.99 per pound is a pretty decent price for rocks.
...Your friends start to question your sanity for spending 3500 dollars for a "fish tank." (Maybe they have a point...)
...While your cohorts at work are sneaking peeks at internet porn, you're sneaking peeks at ReeKeeping MAG.
...You think about moving to Florida to be closer to the reef experts you've encountered online.
...Any sound of glass breaking in the middle of the night sends you three feet off of the bed in a convulsion....
...The thought of spending 300 dollars on fish you can't eat doesn't bother you in the least....
...You can stair at the skimmer for hours
...The lights go out in the tank and you realize its night time
...Someone says they would love to see your tank sometime and you hastily present them with 6 rolls of newly developed reef shots... seemingly from up your sleeve
...You visit a seafood shop and tell the girl behind the counter that you'll take one of everything.
...You leave your normal job early to go work at the LFS for half the money.
...You pawned some of your wifes beanie babies to get a Yellow watchman gobie for your tank! and the best part about it is she dont even notice cuz she has so darn many beanie babys!
...You get excited about the nasty odor coming from your skimmate!
...You say things like "Boy honey, your wrasse is really getting big" and she doesnt kill you
...Your floor makes a crunching sound from all the dried up salt water you spill doing water changes and forget to wipe up.
...The first thing your girlfriend says when she walks in the door is: "You're all wet. Were you playing with the fish tank again?"
...There are no measuring cups and spoons in your kitchen because they've all been used for salt, food, or additives
...You set your tank lights timer's to signal you its time for bed.
...You have no Checking or savings account!!!
...You drink the chlorine city water and save the good stuff for the reef!
...Your fish have a cleaner place to live than you do.
...You have 5 kinds of food for the fish and only a bottle of mustard and a stinky box of Arm & Hammer in the fridge for you.
...Your tank gets Strontium, Iodine,Calcium, etc on a well-timed schedule and you can't be bothered to take a vitamin yourself.
...You start naming your shrimp and snails "Twinkie" and "Buttons."
...Joy at harbor Aquatics can recite your VISA card number from memory.
...You call in sick because you were up all night working on your new stand
...You turn the TV off, so you can watch the tank!
...You spend so much money on your reef that you eat raman noodles for breakfast, lunch and dinner, ya know just to save more money for that extra Frag!
...You can correct your science teacher how the nitrite cycle works!
...You consider the possibility of turning the pool into a Reef!
...You dream of The comming attractions to: Reef Wars: The Cowrie Strikes Back!
...You have salt creep on your armpit hairs.
...You're awake at 4:56 AM, answering questions in a ReefCentral chat Channel....
...You can taste the water in the tank and know what the salinity is right off the bat...
...You drive 400+ miles for "rare" corals, knowing full well you could've ordered them online, but figured, "what the hell, I want to pick them myself"...
...You start thinking that those HID lamps on luxury cars *might* look good on your reef tank, and you wonder to yourself what the Kelvin rating is on them, and if you can ghetto-rig them somehow...
...You go to the beach with a girl, trying to be *romantic*, but instead start talking about what that thick white foam is on the sand, what it is, and how it was created...
...Everyone at Home Depot knows you...
...YOU know everyone at Home Depot...
...You just spent 20 minutes answering a simple question on a BB, and see that the sun is about to come up in a few minutes, realizing that you'd better stop posting now....
...You talk to your fish like they can hear and understand you (hi little fishie, fishie, fishie. arn't you so cute! are you hungry? do you wanna eat? I bet you do!)
...Friends and family start to bring you back shells from the beach (well, they meant well)
...Your wife has ever refered to one of your friends as a "fish buddy"....
...you know the definition of simultaneous hermaphrodite.
...you put your formal diningroom set into storage to make room for the new tank.
...you set -up another tank cause you had an extra heater laying around.
...you make a online reef trivia game for your fellow reefer's !triV
...When you stand along the Highway with a sign that says "Will work for Live rock"
...You have a bumper sticker on your car that says "Got Frags???"
...You Use old lights from your Reef to light up your house or garage with...
...You dont know your kids name but you remember the exact date when you had a cyano bloom happend 4 years ago.
...You Have a garage full of useless junk that MIGHT be handy for a DIY project some day.
...You sit for hours stareing at your cuke to see if a fish lives in its butt.
...When you can recite from memory the exact color and placement of every coral in your tank but can't recall a single piece of clothing your spouse might've been wearing today.
...When you convince a woman to come see your reeftank...and you actually just show her your reeftank.
...When you suggest a Fijian vacation because you want to see The REEF GRACELAND.
...When you have a portrait, in velvet, of Eric Borneman hanging over your living room sofa.
...When anywhere on your new baby's birth announcement, you refer to yourself as having 'spawned'.
...When the 'L' in LFS really means anywhere you can reach on a full tank of gas.
...When the sexiest thing you can imagine is Angela Jolie whispering the word 'zooxanthelle' in your ear.
...You work with the oldest pc known to man so you can buy one more frag!!!
... The sound of leaky faucet makes you go on a Hunt in the dark to make sure that new plumbing isnt leaking.
...If you do not use deodorant bcause Your afriad you will posion the tank by reaching in <epon>
...If your tank has more sand in it then the kids sandbox
You know your a reef addict WHEN
...You tell your freinds you cant go out drinking with them because you have to acclimate your new snails.
...Your tank lights come on and you can turn the lights out in the two connecting rooms.
...You call in sick for work so you can go trade corals at the LFS
...Your spouse puts you in the dog-house because you just blew $400 bucks on bulbs but she hasn't gotten any flowers in months (or years )
...You spend an hour peering into your reef tank with a special home made, red lens flash light at 1:00 am. looking for new life forms...
...You get excited about getting bugs and worms in the mail
...Your feelings about Rio powerheads are more passionate than your feelings about your girlfriend.
...Your begin to think that 4.99 per pound is a pretty decent price for rocks.
...Your friends start to question your sanity for spending 3500 dollars for a "fish tank." (Maybe they have a point...)
...While your cohorts at work are sneaking peeks at internet porn, you're sneaking peeks at ReeKeeping MAG.
...You think about moving to Florida to be closer to the reef experts you've encountered online.
...Any sound of glass breaking in the middle of the night sends you three feet off of the bed in a convulsion....
...The thought of spending 300 dollars on fish you can't eat doesn't bother you in the least....
...You can stair at the skimmer for hours
...The lights go out in the tank and you realize its night time
...Someone says they would love to see your tank sometime and you hastily present them with 6 rolls of newly developed reef shots... seemingly from up your sleeve
...You visit a seafood shop and tell the girl behind the counter that you'll take one of everything.
...You leave your normal job early to go work at the LFS for half the money.
...You pawned some of your wifes beanie babies to get a Yellow watchman gobie for your tank! and the best part about it is she dont even notice cuz she has so darn many beanie babys!
...You get excited about the nasty odor coming from your skimmate!
...You say things like "Boy honey, your wrasse is really getting big" and she doesnt kill you
...Your floor makes a crunching sound from all the dried up salt water you spill doing water changes and forget to wipe up.
...The first thing your girlfriend says when she walks in the door is: "You're all wet. Were you playing with the fish tank again?"
...There are no measuring cups and spoons in your kitchen because they've all been used for salt, food, or additives
...You set your tank lights timer's to signal you its time for bed.
...You have no Checking or savings account!!!
...You drink the chlorine city water and save the good stuff for the reef!
...Your fish have a cleaner place to live than you do.
...You have 5 kinds of food for the fish and only a bottle of mustard and a stinky box of Arm & Hammer in the fridge for you.
...Your tank gets Strontium, Iodine,Calcium, etc on a well-timed schedule and you can't be bothered to take a vitamin yourself.
...You start naming your shrimp and snails "Twinkie" and "Buttons."
...Joy at harbor Aquatics can recite your VISA card number from memory.
...You call in sick because you were up all night working on your new stand
...You turn the TV off, so you can watch the tank!
...You spend so much money on your reef that you eat raman noodles for breakfast, lunch and dinner, ya know just to save more money for that extra Frag!
...You can correct your science teacher how the nitrite cycle works!
...You consider the possibility of turning the pool into a Reef!
...You dream of The comming attractions to: Reef Wars: The Cowrie Strikes Back!
...You have salt creep on your armpit hairs.
...You're awake at 4:56 AM, answering questions in a ReefCentral chat Channel....
...You can taste the water in the tank and know what the salinity is right off the bat...
...You drive 400+ miles for "rare" corals, knowing full well you could've ordered them online, but figured, "what the hell, I want to pick them myself"...
...You start thinking that those HID lamps on luxury cars *might* look good on your reef tank, and you wonder to yourself what the Kelvin rating is on them, and if you can ghetto-rig them somehow...
...You go to the beach with a girl, trying to be *romantic*, but instead start talking about what that thick white foam is on the sand, what it is, and how it was created...
...Everyone at Home Depot knows you...
...YOU know everyone at Home Depot...
...You just spent 20 minutes answering a simple question on a BB, and see that the sun is about to come up in a few minutes, realizing that you'd better stop posting now....
...You talk to your fish like they can hear and understand you (hi little fishie, fishie, fishie. arn't you so cute! are you hungry? do you wanna eat? I bet you do!)
...Friends and family start to bring you back shells from the beach (well, they meant well)
...Your wife has ever refered to one of your friends as a "fish buddy"....
...you know the definition of simultaneous hermaphrodite.
...you put your formal diningroom set into storage to make room for the new tank.
...you set -up another tank cause you had an extra heater laying around.
...you make a online reef trivia game for your fellow reefer's !triV
...When you stand along the Highway with a sign that says "Will work for Live rock"
...You have a bumper sticker on your car that says "Got Frags???"
...You Use old lights from your Reef to light up your house or garage with...
...You dont know your kids name but you remember the exact date when you had a cyano bloom happend 4 years ago.
...You Have a garage full of useless junk that MIGHT be handy for a DIY project some day.
...You sit for hours stareing at your cuke to see if a fish lives in its butt.
...When you can recite from memory the exact color and placement of every coral in your tank but can't recall a single piece of clothing your spouse might've been wearing today.
...When you convince a woman to come see your reeftank...and you actually just show her your reeftank.
...When you suggest a Fijian vacation because you want to see The REEF GRACELAND.
...When you have a portrait, in velvet, of Eric Borneman hanging over your living room sofa.
...When anywhere on your new baby's birth announcement, you refer to yourself as having 'spawned'.
...When the 'L' in LFS really means anywhere you can reach on a full tank of gas.
...When the sexiest thing you can imagine is Angela Jolie whispering the word 'zooxanthelle' in your ear.
...You work with the oldest pc known to man so you can buy one more frag!!!
... The sound of leaky faucet makes you go on a Hunt in the dark to make sure that new plumbing isnt leaking.
...If you do not use deodorant bcause Your afriad you will posion the tank by reaching in <epon>
...If your tank has more sand in it then the kids sandbox