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07-21-2002, 10:45 AM
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Crazed Fish Whisperer
Join Date: Jul 2002
Location: Kansas City, MO
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You know you are addicted when...
Saw this thread on another board, and ever since then, have loved it. So, wanted to start it here to see what you all had to say. Just finish this sentence..
You know you are hooked when...
you spend money on your tank rather then food for yourself.
*from a previous post*
When your water bill is higher than your car payment.
anyway, you get the idea, I would love to see what all people have to say. 
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07-21-2002, 11:04 AM
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Super Moderator
Join Date: Jan 2000
Location: TN, USA
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OK, here's the test:
You have just received $500 from your tax refund. Your hot water heater just went out; Your car lost a valve and is running on 5 cylinders; the washing machine died; your credit card is maxed out and 2 payments behind; your children desperately need dental work.
Now, the question:
Should you spend the $500 on that new top-of-the-line skimmer or upgrade to MH lights? 
Dick
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07-21-2002, 11:31 AM
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Nothing to See Here
Join Date: Feb 2001
Location: Montana
Posts: 5,815
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You know you are addicted when you go to sleep at night and your dreams are always of a bigger reef tank and what it will look like!
Lately I have been dreaming of winning a huge lottery and cleared $479 million dollars and had a reef tank customed made which was 16 feet long, 4 feet wide and 4 feet deep! 
I also made TRT members millionares! Johnny |
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07-21-2002, 12:41 PM
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Super Moderator
Join Date: Jan 1999
Location: Southern Oregon, Way West of Dimples ;)
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Hehehehe thats a no brainer, ALWAYS go for more light
You know you are an addict when the spouse tells you" buy one more thing for the tank and I am gone" and you think for a moment, " gee I'll miss her/him"
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07-21-2002, 12:58 PM
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Banggai Mommy
Join Date: Jan 2002
Location: Orlando, FL
Posts: 2,307
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Well, Duh.
Of course we upgraded to MH! But it was a $600 return, so we threw in an overflow and a couple more MaxiJets.
...when all your friends talk about are "reefers," "shrooms," and the "meth lab" (our plankton station), but mean a totally different type of addiction...
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07-21-2002, 04:35 PM
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double cappuccino
Join Date: Nov 2001
Location: CA
Posts: 1,633
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The fish are eating fresh shrimp and and clams while your hot pocket is in the microwave...
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07-21-2002, 07:29 PM
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Mike
Join Date: Jun 2002
Location: The Puget Sound
Posts: 115
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YMBAAI...
...you forego sex at night to make drawings of your aquarium plumbing system....
....oops, maybe that was too much information!! 
(Hey, it only happened 3 times)!!!!!!!!!
Mike
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07-22-2002, 06:47 AM
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Administrator
Join Date: Sep 2000
Location: Tampa, FL
Posts: 8,448
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....you use heavy equipment (hammer / chisel) or power tools (dremel rotory) to frag your coral.
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07-22-2002, 11:15 AM
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Reefer D' jour
Join Date: Jul 2001
Location: lansing, mi
Posts: 791
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...it's so hot in your house you can't sleep, yet all the fans, and AC units are pointed directly at your tank. (current situation  )
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nickg<br />LIFE TASTES GOOD!
55g display, 10g sump, 5g refugium
single, siphon overflow to sump, rio 2100 return, ref is pumped from sump, and returned via gravity/bulkhead. Big in-sump skimmer w/cap 2200 pump, various maxijets in display. temp 82
<a href="http://www.nickg309reef.iwarp.com">MY TANK SITE</a>
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07-22-2002, 03:08 PM
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Little Fishy
Join Date: May 2002
Location: Northern Ontario
Posts: 64
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DREMEL....what a great idea!!!!!! we call the tank, "cat TV" at our house...lol
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07-22-2002, 06:38 PM
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Super Moderator
Join Date: Jan 1999
Location: Southern Oregon, Way West of Dimples ;)
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Dremel is like reefers vicegrips, so many uses
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When considering courage in battle, one should remember that there are 2 sides to every conflict.
The heroism of the losing side rarely gets remembered
but we were all husbands and fathers, sons and bros
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07-22-2002, 09:49 PM
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Klingon
Join Date: Feb 2002
Location: Forest Grove, OR
Posts: 1,808
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You admire your tank inhabitants when you should be cleaning the house. Spend almost all waking hours trying to figure out new electronic gadgets for your tank. You go to Home Depot and buy several ballast to "Try them out". You spend way to much time on this board (maybe not)
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07-23-2002, 12:53 AM
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Crazed Fish Whisperer
Join Date: Jul 2002
Location: Kansas City, MO
Posts: 2,568
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to the flip side of what NickG said...
You know you are addicted when...
during an ice storm you lose power for two days, and while you shiver with 1 thin blanket, your fish tank has 3 blankets and a 0 degree sleeping bag wrapped around it, and every 3 hours you get up to boil water and stir the tank to keep the temp no lower then 73 degrees.
Yes, I did this when we had our icestorm. And yep, my fish were warmer then I was for a few days. heh heh Thank God one of our stoves in the house was gas! heh heh
Last edited by Jeremy1973; 07-23-2002 at 01:00 PM.
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07-23-2002, 01:53 AM
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That Biker Looking Guy
Join Date: Dec 2001
Location: Bremerton Wa
Posts: 2,446
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You know you are addicted when...
You carry Tank pics in your wallet instead of family Pics
Mike So you mean I aint the only one?????
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07-23-2002, 03:55 AM
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Beanieboy
Join Date: May 2001
Location: Vancouver, WA
Posts: 409
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When you spend $20 on a cleaner shrimp so your sally lightfoot can eat it, & you eat top ramen while you watch him do it.
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