am i normal

rogerwilco357

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I wake up thinking about my reef tank and sps corals mainly acros, millies.
I look at all the threads and spend hours gazing at pictures of corals . My wife thinks i have issues as i spend alot of time on the message boards ,shopping for tank related items to make my tank my sps's home perfect. I fall asleep thinking who is getting their shipments of corals in this week and spend hundreds of dollars on reef related items. My lfs is now my best friend feels phony though he smiles as if he just hit the lotto when i walk in the door.I see some red planet and have to buy one he is now ordering certain corals knowing i will buy em . I really want to buy a bubble king skimmer to complete my tank but my wife says no way you just bought 3 vortech pumps oops make that 4 lol. I have bought rock like a crack head buys his rock and probably get the same high when i see it in my tank wow its helping with the filtration i say to my kids lol..I think i need a 12 step program as i am willing to fly to buy corals , planning vacactions around dive sites and where i know the ships bring in the rock and corals ..like california . when will i be able to sleep and not dream of my tank and fish and corals when ? when i am sleeping with the fishes as my wife says (she is Italian).:mixed: feelings are weird what would i do if someone poured bleach in my tank would i loose it? better question is would You loose it. how many times do you look at your tank how much time do You spend her on the boards and do you look at pics of corals more than any other type of pics? Maybe you too have a problem hahahahahahahha ...thanks for reading have to go check my parameters its only 3 in the morning.
 
its good that we have a place to go... alcoholics get AA and we get RC

i have to wait tell my GF falls asleep then i sneak out to snoop my subscribed forums.

the worst part is this addiction is more expensive then oh say heroin! we even resort to selling our left over scraps or frags when we need some money for the next fix.
 
wow

wow

well almost 5 am just finished looking at the 50 page thread on best tanks wow got my fix lol. you guys are right we have RC to help us feel normal.
 
5am? I wish it was 5am so I can go home and have some pancakes, look at my tanks, and go off to bed in my 1000 thread count sheets lol.
 
I wake up thinking about my reef tank and sps corals mainly acros, millies.
I look at all the threads and spend hours gazing at pictures of corals . My wife thinks i have issues as i spend alot of time on the message boards ,shopping for tank related items to make my tank my sps's home perfect. I fall asleep thinking who is getting their shipments of corals in this week and spend hundreds of dollars on reef related items. My lfs is now my best friend feels phony though he smiles as if he just hit the lotto when i walk in the door.I see some red planet and have to buy one he is now ordering certain corals knowing i will buy em . I really want to buy a bubble king skimmer to complete my tank but my wife says no way you just bought 3 vortech pumps oops make that 4 lol. I have bought rock like a crack head buys his rock and probably get the same high when i see it in my tank wow its helping with the filtration i say to my kids lol..I think i need a 12 step program as i am willing to fly to buy corals , planning vacactions around dive sites and where i know the ships bring in the rock and corals ..like california . when will i be able to sleep and not dream of my tank and fish and corals when ? when i am sleeping with the fishes as my wife says (she is Italian).:mixed: feelings are weird what would i do if someone poured bleach in my tank would i loose it? better question is would You loose it. how many times do you look at your tank how much time do You spend her on the boards and do you look at pics of corals more than any other type of pics? Maybe you too have a problem hahahahahahahha ...thanks for reading have to go check my parameters its only 3 in the morning.
ide say you should prob see a doctor.
 
Yeah, you're good. My wife thinks I'm nuts too, but she supports me. I have gotten very little push back on the money I have spent recently probably because she knows it makes me happy.

I can also agree with you on planning vacations around diving. We pretty much plan where we are going on vacation based on how much diving we can get in. Hell, we planned our Wedding in Maui last year, so we could dive there. I've got a keeper. :thumbsup:
 
HAHAHH great post specially about the LFS LOL

we are all addicts. I luckily dont have a wife yet, but gfs sure do make me feel like a freak and scare me that I'll grow up to be the "crazy old fish guy" lolol

we need a rehab section on these forums with pics of crashed tanks :P haha

I used to be a pot head, now I'm a zeohead :sad1:
 
Sounds pretty normal to me, I thought everyone did those things. No? Oh, guess I am a victim of the same disease then. On the other side, my appreciates my reef obsession because she knows I would never dare question her about what she spends on clothes anymore.
 
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As for your "normalness", that is quite debatable:D
 
same here

same here

Yeah, you're good. My wife thinks I'm nuts too, but she supports me. I have gotten very little push back on the money I have spent recently probably because she knows it makes me happy.

I can also agree with you on planning vacations around diving. We pretty much plan where we are going on vacation based on how much diving we can get in. Hell, we planned our Wedding in Maui last year, so we could dive there. I've got a keeper. :thumbsup:

yes my wife supports my habit but I think they have us fooled because when she says oh honey is that another coral oh thats soo nice it's beautiful almost the same color as my Coach purse I just picked up , dare i ask how much she spent not if I wanna buy that vortech pump someone just put up For Sale lol , trust me they get theirs in return plus interest.
 
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