Do you suffer from reefachondria?

[Bfragale]

Reef·a·chon·dri·ac

Noun

a person who is abnormally anxious about their reef tank.

A severe symptom believed to threaten one's reef tank(e.g., Dino’s , pests, crashes etc. ) History of reefing abuse (physical, financial, emotional) or neglect of everything else in life except your reef tank. Usually Having another reefing disorder (e.g., obsessive compulsive-ness,
YouTube “now ima x-pert” syndrome, etc)

Reefachondria is itself a form of mild psychosis. The Reefachondriac has a deep and ungrounded worry about having or developing a serious issue with their reef tank. Paranoia and suspiciousness are classical traits of psychosis but they can be subtle.

but don’t worry, I found a great support group:
Reef2reef.com

 

[Emptyness]

If you would ask my wife - yes, she is starting to notice the above mentioned symptoms in me.

If you ask me - I am perfectly fine thanks to the really nice and helpful support group in the face of reef2reef community.

 

[hmmmmm]

Bfragale or BFragile? ;Smuggrin

Can't say I'm worrying about diseases or crashes, I feel like that's a learning process you have to go to when taking on a new hobby\project. But coming from a technical background I get way to nervous around equipment, because I feel like I should have that under control. I can lay awake at night thinking I need to calibrate sensors or check my heaters, make sure the internet is up, or that the pumps are running ;Walkingdead

 

[Clownfish_Boy]

I am fish-only with reef rock, so no worries here !

 

[richarddeweerd]

It's very dangerous because Reefachondria is the main cause for unnecessary chasing numbers and therefore the arch enemy of patience.

 

[Daniel@R2R Verified Admin]

LOL Sometimes...

 

[jeffrey750750]

I admit I have a problem

 

[Bfragale]

I was bored last light lol. I leave tomorrow on a week vacation and more worried about the tanks then anything else lol.

 

[brandon429]

in my invasion remedy threads, we thrive on the indecisive becoming quite decisive


sometimes being concerned helps us take action, if we approach literally every thing w patience, we're accepting entrants into the total tank invasion threads just before you quit reefing daily.

patience= the sages told me this would self-resolve.

there's a time for patience and a time for total action, discernment = best trait to acquire

 

[Waters]

Yep.....all the time. So much that I have a hard time enjoying the tank a lot of the time lol.

 

[Pistol Peet]

Nope got to go to work how else am I going to have purchase all this stuff for my tank no working no money need money for the tank I like Ramen noodles anyways

 

[brandon429]

It is an undisputed fact that current cycling rules for the hobby has the masses thinking bacteria are so weak they must be retail supplemented in some way in order to reef. The post nineties reefing generation is on the hook for cash outflow


for example
if there are formal reef rule go to cycling rule videos saying nitrite stalls cycles, but in reality nitrite cannot stall any reef tank cycle, and if I have collected about 100 threads showing nitrite offset purchases, then by rule I have defined a sales pathway linked to a chondria of some sort

(it would also require a thread showing pages and years of nitrite-positive reef starts all in one place to prove neutrality, yes we do have those)

fear of an incomplete cycle is a strong, strong sales motivator thats a form of cycle hypochondria.

if there was only something I could buy, to feel ok

 

[bobbyM]

Not I. I have Reef Zen.

a state of calm attentiveness in which one's actions are guided by intuition rather than by conscious effort. Perhaps that is the zen of Reefing—you become one with the corals, lost in the rhythm of the tasks at hand.

 

[stephen wyard]

Not anymore after 20 years I feel I finally know enough to be able to enjoy the hobby

 

[Roytrolls247]

I have a let it happen Naturally approach to reefing no Reefachondria yet lol.. Probably I will after I set up my APEX hahaha

 

[Daniel@R2R Verified Admin]

Not I. I have Reef Zen.

a state of calm attentiveness in which one's actions are guided by intuition rather than by conscious effort. Perhaps that is the zen of Reefing—you become one with the corals, lost in the rhythm of the tasks at hand.

Haha! We need to start a reefing urban dictionary for these great terms! Reefachondria, Reef Zen, Reefcebo...

 

[Phycodurus]

... always striving for that reef zen enlightenment!

 

[brandon429]

we made it impossible for Jack to have cycle chondriasis here

100% Water Change

I thought I might as well show you this as well, just 24 hours later & all of the ammonia has been successfully removed. Is that test under natural light?

www.reef2reef.com

if you read detailed you'll see the buying responses featured above, we're trained well, us buyers.

reef hypochondria is killed by confidence and assembling work threads that prove outcomes builds conf


look how well our buyer training pervades: anyone here make a sample cycling thread poll asking if attaining and holding 8 ppm ammonia for days will stall a cycle-

99% of your respondents will say yes, dead. can't handle past 5ppm the directions say it. the other 1% is J from above.



how did 8ppm turn out above, stalled or not? it was indeed not stalled. we applied seller information there, not buyer information.