More addictive than Crack Cocaine, there are many tell-tale signs that you’re addicted to reef keeping. Here are just twenty-five…
- You book holidays to coral reef destinations or even places with really good public aquaria just so you can get some quality reef time while away.
- You watch the Blue Planet nature documentaries and shout out fish and invert names before David Attenborough does.
- You choose restaurants with aquariums in them.
- You have a reef-related tattoo.
- Your first purchase if you won the lottery would be a massive tank.
- You plan future houses around where the aquarium will go.
- Your tank is worth more than your car.
- You already have a great reef tank but you want another three.
- Your garden is littered with dried-out reef rocks and coral skeletons.
- You wonder what the PAR levels are at the beach.
- A “heavy late-night session,” involves epoxy putty and superglue.
- Your energy company thinks you are running a weed grow-out.
- Your partner tuts every time you mention anything aquarium-related.
- Your favorite Pixar film is Finding Nemo.
- You know it is impossible to swipe a smartphone screen with wet hands.
- You plan how you’d step up your hobby if you were single.
- You wonder how the hell Acropora survives in the wild.
- You’re planning your retirement frag tank to help pay the bills when you’re old.
- You dream about what it would be like to run your own reef store.
- You can watch a protein skimmer running for hours.
- You know the TDS of your tap water.
- You can guess the water volume of your bathtub.
- You wouldn’t be seen dead with a Domino damselfish.
- You have salt creep on your footwear.
- Good and bad days are dictated entirely by your water parameters.
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