You Know When You Are A Reef Nerd When...

[Turbo's Aquatics Verified Sponsor]

When even your 7 year old child has to say goodnight to all the fish before he goes to bed

That's inherited reef nerd syndrome!

 

[ReefMadScientist]

When even your 7 year old child has to say goodnight to all the fish before he goes to bed

Thats cute

 

[jack89]

When even your 7 year old child has to say goodnight to all the fish before he goes to bed

LOL another reefer in making

 

[barbarag]

when you go to help a friend who owns a lfs just to be around the tanks with all the goodies in them

 

[chefjpaul]

I just flew 27hrs. From NYC to Cairns to test the water.

 

[barbarag]

yes he is he loves it as much as I do , and he gets so mad at me if I go to a lfs without him

 

[go29]

When your freezer has more fish food in it than actual food

When you get excited about days off from work not to vacation, but in order to be able to order corals and watch outside the window all day for the Fedex truck

When your significant other realizes she needs to add roughly 100 bucks to whatever your "order total" came to for the actual amount

When you put more thought into making sure your fish have a balanced diet than your own (cereal for dinner again)

When the excuse "But i got that in order to get the free shipping" line just doesn't cut it anymore with the significant other

--> Man I'm really starting to think I have a problem haha, great thread !

 

[jpines]

When you have to check R2R before bed just to ensure you aren't missing out on any "deals" that you just can't pass up on in the "for sale" forum

 

[softiegirl]

Your significant other constantly sees your rear end up on a step stool every time they walk in the door!

 

[Gooburz]

When you are deployed with the Navy and each port call you think to yourself "don't spend that money it could be going to your reef tank upgrade when you get home". Or when you have your wife send you weekly pic updates of the tank and just 1 photo won't do hahaha.

 

[sawdonkey]

When you choose not to put on deodorant after showering because you know you'll be armpit-deep in your tank in the near future.

When you have a large supply of shirts with cut off sleeves because you don't like getting them wet.

 

[Reduck]

Denial of being a reef nerd is the first sign though there are some pretty funny comments here!
After that it's all downhill.
We all need a 12 step program...

If you want to laugh, go look at how many people are browsing the MACNA thread to feed their addiction..yep, I'm refreshing those pages like a madman waiting on updates!!

 

[Turbo's Aquatics Verified Sponsor]

When you have a large supply of shirts with cut off sleeves because you don't like getting them wet.

When you wear tank tops so that you don't have to get your sleeves wet. Even in the winter.

 

[rus15.rb]

When you are on social media and see that someone went snorkeling on vacation but is all you care about is trying to name all the fish and corals you see in the pictures....

Or you pm them asking is they took any parameters

 

[Nnavarro1982]

When you wear tank tops so that you don't have to get your sleeves wet. Even in the winter.

When ur female and you just wear a bikini top because you know ur going to be soaked from the bust up.

When your 4 year old daughter can identify half of the corals in the store because mom and dad never stop talking about it.


When you go into the lfs and get excited because the mushrooms are on sale.

 

[csreed]

Oh, man - thanks for the laugh everybody! I can relate to way too many of these!

 

[Reef-roach]

When you point out to your zoology instructor that the coral in our lab manual identified as Rhodactis is actually Fungia.

 

[JFrar]

When i practice singing a song and i start singing about corals... Loud

 

[ca2or]

For me it was yesterday. I was at home depot and listening to a guy buying PVC to redo plumbing in his house. I bought more than he did to plumb my tank