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You know you have a problem when you can reference several similarities to drug abuse and reefkeeping.

You go to the LFS to pick up a replacement T5 and walk out with two corals, 3 fish, 1 dozen snails, 2 dozen hermits and no lights.

Then three to four hours later (after acclimation and your gf/bf yells at you) you return to a different LFS due to the embarassement of forgetting your lights. So, you walk into the store and then come out 2 hours later with some more corals a new starfish, 2 peppermint shrimp, and no lights again.

Then your spouse is forced to go to back to the first store and pick up the lights while you sit at home and acclimate the other new stuff before the LFS closes.
 
You know you have a problem when the person behind the counter at the LFS starts to wish you Happy Holidays...... pauses for a moment and says, "I was going to wish you Happy Holidays, but I know I'll see you a half a dozens times before then."
 
You run out to Hollywood market late at night to buy five 1 gallon jugs of white vinegar, extra large baking soda, and epson salts, and then say to the clerk - "its for my fish tank":D
 
Oh yeah, and the blue light glow from my basement windows all night long! Had the neighbors ask about that one recently.-devil
 
You know you have a problem when your neighbors gather together to send a person over to ask if I sell "stuff" I'm growing because they see brights lights through the windows everyday. True story, I live right outside of MSU's campus.
 
You know you have a problem when, at 9:00 at night, you head out in the sleeting rain to CVS looking for syringes to treat aiptasia since the ones you have became clogged. You waltz into the store, trying to act calm, and notice that the pharmacy is closed and inquire with the cashier if they can get the syringes from behind the desk - not begging but hinting at a sense of urgency. She then sites statute claiming that its a federal offence if she were to go behind the phrasmacy desk after it was closed - but politely informs us that we could get them at the 24 hour CVS pharmacy down the street. Then you pile in the van, and head down the road and pick up a dozen 22 gauge needles at nearly 10:00 at night, all the while dodging ice spots on the road. Stupid aiptasia.

You also might have a problem if you come home from college for the weekend, and can easily spend the entire weekend cleaning pumps, doing water changes, fragging corals, and tending to the little nuances in the tank.
 
Phong said:
You know you have a problem when your neighbors gather together to send a person over to ask if I sell "stuff" I'm growing because they see brights lights through the windows everyday. True story, I live right outside of MSU's campus.
lol.... four years there and knowing some of the student's i've busted... totally believable.. hahahah.....

edit: You know you have a problem when you're reading this thread instead of studying for finals.... dang, grad school bites.
 
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