You know you are a reefer if:
1.) you would rather tinker with your tank than tinker with your
"significant other".
2.) you are watching Baywatch, on location in Hawaii, and you only notice
the corals, and can name all the corals in the shot, and don't even realize
that Pam Anderson is wearing nothing but a white bathing suit in very cold
water in that same shot.
3.) you willingly spend $12.00/lb. for imported "purple" rock with living
things on it that you can't even see without an electron microscope.
4.) you like buying things twice, like a protein skimmer, lighting, live
rock, et cetera, with the thought that "for now, this will be good enough
`til I get more money".
5.) you have to borrow your friend's pick-up truck to go to the market so
that you can fit all those 1 gallon jugs full of distilled water into one
car in order to fill up your new 150 gallon tank.
6.) you are late to work because you were up all night draining your 150
gallon tank full of that water from
5.) because you didn't bother to check if that bulkhead was fastened
correctly, which it wasn't.
7.) you get a very sharp pain in your wallet whenever you look at your tank.
8.) your ears hurt from your "significant other" yelling at you all the time
for buying things that you can't pet, name, train, wear, eat, or even touch,
for 50 bucks a pop.
9.) you spend 5 hours looking into your tank so that you can get the 5
second glimpse of that copepod scurrying under the rocks.
10.) you stay up all night wondering what that thing in 9.) was, thinking it
was a flea that will eat everything from 8.).
11.) you know what strontium is.
12.) you know what the relationship is between alkalinity (what you used to
think was just a type of battery), pH, and calcium.
13.) you have an unexplainable urge to see as many other reef tanks as you
can possibly see, even if it means driving for 8 hours to get to them.
14.) you know what the ocean (and fish poop) tastes like from sucking on
that hose to get the siphon going so you can do the weekly water change in
your tank. *note: this is only with the newer reefers.
15.) you put more fluids into your reef tank in a day, than you put into
your car in a year.
16.) you've got a 3 ft.-high stack of vinyl bags, from bringing all those
corals home.
17.) you've got an entire drawer-full of tiny rubber bands that came with
the bags in 16.), with which you struggled for an hour to get them off after
getting your brand new corals home-"these will come in handy someday", you
said to yourself at the time.
18.) you make up 10 new cuss words after struggling with 17.) to get them
off of 16.) so that you can admire 8.).
19.) you have no idea what Guten Tag means, but you do know the German word
for limewater.
20.)you always tell your wife, mom, brothers, that your new coral costed you
3 or 4 dollars when it actually was 60 or 70 dollars.
21.) you are reading this list. ;)
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