- If you go to a store to buy kitchen supplies such as measuring spoons, measuring cups, turkey basters, mop buckets, and dawn scrubbers that will never see a kitchen... you might be a reefneck.
- If you spent more money on a light for your reef tank, than you have on anyone in your family your entire life, you might be a reefneck.
- If your fish eat more nutricious meals than you do, you might be a reefneck.
- If you rely on your atnic lights to provide light for your bedroom to conserve electricity because of your fish tank, you might be a reefneck.
- If you spend more time researching and learning about reef tanks than you did on any subject all 12 years of school, you might be a reefneck.
- If you start feeling guilty about eating seafood, you might be a reefneck.
- If your friend calls you up on a friday night and asks what your plans are for the evening and you reply with "doing a 35% water change and cleaning out my protein skimmer", you might be a reefneck.
- If you can spout off the exact parameters and conditions of indo-pacific sea water and how to uphold a self-sustaining aquarium, yet not knowing a thing about the inner-mechanics of a vehicle, you might be a reefneck