You Know You're A Fish Keeper When...

[madmom]

oops here's another You here of a going out of business sale everything 75% off and you show up before the stores open the day of the sale with the neighbors van to help haul away your goodies.

 

[newfishaddict]

You know your a fish keeping when:

1) you know more about aquariums than your professoin

2) your house humidifier needs to be turned off due to water evaporation from your tanks (and I live in one of the lowest humidy places on earth!)

3) you house smells like fish because of how many fry you have

4) you ask you family doctor to prescribe drugs.....for you fish (he didnt mind)

5) everyone at work calls you fish man

6) aging water is somthing you do EVERY moring just like showering and brushing teeth

I could go on.....but Im at work and I dont want to break the internet policy too much

 

[SiriusStarr]

When you spend over an hour and three sets of batteries taking and deleting pictures, trying to get the PERFECT picture of your cories for a sig/av.

 

[plantropimunity]

-When you spend hours on liveaquaria.com researching fish for tanks you're not going to be able to set up for at least 5-10 years from now.

now who can say that they havent done this???
i know that i have

 

[Iron Man]

When you've got 8 different 48" flourescent tubes sitting in your bedroom closet cause you couldn't find the right "color" light for your red swordtails.

 

[qwikimpss]

You might be a fishkeeper if....

You walk into someone's apartment/house/trailer/cardboard box and immediately start to immagine where you would put tanks.

You know more than clerks in your LFS and butt in on converations between fish clerks and customers to point out that the clerk was wrong.

 

[Iron Man]

Speaking of LFS's....

When the girl bagging your fish is ready to give you beginner advice on your new friend and says, "So is this for a community tank or....." and you say, "African cichlids, 55 gallon", and she says, "......oh....."

 

[GuppyDude]

when u spend 2 hours prepareing a "special" blend of dried foods for $.25 guppies.

when u fork over 50 bux to a transhipper because u bought fish from outside of the country.

 

[so-fishy!]

You know your a fishkeeper when.......

* you steal rocks, giant pieces of flint and gravel from your boyfriends water feature for your tank!
* you sit and read all you PFK magazines for the 100th time incase you missed any vital information
* you record Dorys voice (from Finding Nemo) as a "just keep swimming" ringtone on your mobile
* you look in the yellow pages to find new fishy shops to look at when you go to visit relatives, meeetings or holidays!
* you skive off work for two days to keep 24hr watch on your first born batch of guppy fry!
* you correct annoying children in your LFS when they don't know the proper names for the Nemo fish!
* you shed a tear when you lose a fish and not eat that day
* you make excuses to not go out so you can check new posts on this forum
* you buy the nasty value food in supermarkets for yourself and expensive "latest formula" for your fish
* you are constantly searching through ebay to find fishy bargains!
* you want to kill your other half when he says "Yeah great a new fish" and "They don't really interest me" and "If you drag me to that bloody fish shop again we are over!"
* you consider working the streets to pay for a expensive marine set up you have always dreamed of!

(OK I SAID CONSIDERED! NOT ACTUALLY DONE IT!)

 

[demonmagus]

You know your a fishkeeper when.......

* you look in the yellow pages to find new fishy shops to look at when you go to visit relatives, meeetings or holidays!

I have done that My family go crazy

 

[Miss Wiggle]

thought of another good but incredibly sad one...

you know your a fishkeeper when ..... watching priates of the caribbean you can't stop yourself wondering how big a tank you'd need to keep a crakken (sp) in

 

[Gankutsuou]

you know you are a fish keeper when you decide to make a sci fi film/book about how the worlds surface has been turned into desert, bombed by nukes, and the only cities left arre the underwater ones. Then you focus on "neo atlantis", whom's experimenting on fish comes back to kill them when monsterous dragon gobies, bala sharks, raphael catfishes, ect, break out from the experiment chamber and cause the dome to over flow..

 

[MHunt]

I've only read the first page and already it's critical.

I'm a definite fishkeeper.

My TV get's ignored, as does my wife and son.

I have asked my wife to get fish food for me!

I haven't started treating my bath water, i think the soap i add would make it a bit too alkaline

I have two books, and a healthy collection of magazines.

I'm hooked, reel me in

 

[MasterP]

.....if you would rather watch a friends fish tank than do something with him.

 

[Chri$]

You know your are a fishkeeper when:

You quit your job so you can look after your fish and aquariums full time

You stop drinking alcohol so you cannot be charged with handling an aquarium while under the influence

You dare not go away for longer than 2 days beacause you do not trust anyone else to look after your fish

You spend more time watching your fish than the TV

You spend more money on fishkeeping than anything else

You stop eating fish in any form