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Hey, Heidi...mum's the word...and Johnny will never notice the difference between a 10 and a 55...:88)

BTW, we've been missing you girl!

When you think you might be able to breed fish at a rate that could actually be lucrative by selling to the LFS...

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Whan you keep replying through 14 pages of this thread...

When you got to the LFS just to look at fish. (Well, I asked a few questions, too)

When you go nuts if you haven't been to the LFS in the past 7 days... *twitch, twich*

When you keep the guy at the LFS from going on break beacuse you started a discussion on cories and he has a LARGE cory tank (so he's as obsessed as I am )

lol ya i havent been to the lfs in the past two weeks i think it is im twitching like mad i told my mom we had to go this week or else.

This weekend's activity was a trip to the best freken LFS in my area (abot a half an hour drive though). And the funny part was that it was my dad's idea!

When you volunteer to write about the local (incredibly cool) fish store for the student-run magazine you're on.

When the cab fare to and from said trip comes to $50, and you still spend $25 in the store.

When people ask you if you "have fish" and you just laugh and laugh ....

When you realize you've practically stopped conversing with non-fish people, because invariably your answer to "what did you do over the weekend?" will leave them glassy-eyed.

When you try to sum up the cycle in 100 words so your editor will let you have it as a sidebar - no need for readers to abuse fish!

When, while you're at it, you right up sidebars about proper betta care, why goldfish can't be kept in bowls, the horrors of painted fish, the real "Nemo," and why fish are the best dorm pets.

When you're up forty minutes past your normal bedtime because you want to keep refreshing the FP front page to check for interesting new threads.

-Molly
Visit shelldwellers.com!

Happy Birthday, Molly!

You might be obsessed with fish when this is the first website you go to when you get on the internet...

When you start coming up with a 12 days of Christmas for fish lovers (I'll post it later).

When you run into someone at your job and ya'll sit there and have a stare down, until it dawns on both of you that you know each other because she also frequents the same lfs as you do, and that is where you see each other...

And hey you only have to travel 30 minutes to a good LFS? I'm envious...I travel over an hour to get to mine.

"I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom." Thomas Carlyle

when w/o thinking about it u type www.fishprofiles into the address box even though your wanted to go to dogpile.com

when this threads continues to get longer and longer and it won't end.

When you keep coming back to this post to see if anything new has been added and you find out it just keeps going like the energizer bunny.

"I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom." Thomas Carlyle

When you tell your better half I'll keep it under a $100.00, and come home with close to $500.00. in fish and supplies.
Oops!

When instead of getting really mad @the driver of the van that just cut infront of you on the capital beltway without using his turn signal ]:| ]:| ]:| you simply consider what size tank you could fit in the back of it .


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When you take care of all the fishbowls at work because you want to and no one at your office even blinks an eye anymore when they catch you making kissy fishy faces to your favorite betta.

When you talk to ALL your fish like they can really understand you.

When your friends and family all know the names of your fish and ask how they are doing BY NAME.

Smiles
Piglet

When you have started attending AA (Aquariums Anonymous)...:88)

-- when you start testing your water when you have nothing to do just to make sure that your fish are happy for the day.

-- when you're watching TV with your partner and you are asked about your comment on it and you just didn't hear it 'cause you are concentrating on the goings on in one of your tanks.

-- when you periodically walk around to all the tanks asking the fish if they are okay.

-- when you spend the whole weekend visiting as much fish shops you can just so in case they have stocks of fish you have been waiting for (even though you have placed an order already)

-- when you tell people that your fish is getting broody and will lay eggs in the next couple of days

NOT ME!!! NO WAY!!!

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When you sell your wifes computer to take the proceeds and buy a 75 gallon? And promise you'll eventually get her another..

I'll be doing it this coming friday actually...Oh god I can't wait! My biggest now is a 55...

OH I GOT ONE!

Well this one is actually..."The pet store knows you're obsessed when..."

You search all over the house and your car only to bring in $10 worth of change to buy just anything because your wife won't give you anymore money to spend on fish/supplies!

When you buy a fish labeled as a Gold Saum without researching it, head home and do some research, find it's also known as a Green Terror, decide that sounds very ominous...Then find out you've got a male and head to the fish store to get a female.

When you buy fish (juvenile) that will easily outgrow the tank your keeping them in at the moment, so you have a REASON to splurge out on a lavish new tank, rather than an the old EXCUSES.
When you got to the library at school and instead of researching on the computers/internet your caught drawing fish on Paint, and having people staring over your shoulder... (Most of which are monster fish that don't exist anyway,)
~jus

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Why didn't I think of the tank buster one YEARS ago!?!?

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...rather do important stuff (tear down wall, insulate wall, drywall -ehehe-, paint wall, tear out floor) you stare at your fish tank.

...make excuses to check your email and stare at your tank and start doing maintenance

...you say "Good morning folks" when you hop out of bed to see them (totally bypassing everything else)

...you stare at the tank so much, you imagine yourself in there as well.

...you can, by memory, draw every detail in your tank.

...you know the Scientific names and Common Names of every fish and plant in your tank (and boast to friends about it)

Gary

When you slow down when driving to work (even though you're already late because you spent too much time talking to you little fishies )to examine all the "new" dead wood that has fallen in the most recent windstorm and think oohhhhh that would look excellent in a tank.....a tank the size of my house .

"I would like a bigger house please...there are so many fish that would be happier with me"



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...you check your email to see if anyone on FP has responded to your threads.

...most of your online time is posting/responding on FP.

Gary

When the only dorm rule you're willing to break is the "one aquarium" rule ... and you only care about getting caught because they'd make you take some fish home.

When you get up at 6:30 and it's still dark, and you accidentally brush your hair with a brine shrimp net because the "morning" drawer is also the "fish" drawer.

When you're more vehement and judgemental on the subject of fish bowls than on any other hot topic.

-Molly
Visit shelldwellers.com!

...When you are supposed to be studying activins and inhibins, and all you are REALLY doing is refreshing your active threads page in case someone has replied to you

Think i gave too much away there

*gets back to study*

For animals, the entire universe has been neatly divided into things to (a) mate with, (b) eat, (c) run away from, and (d) rocks. - Terry Pratchett

When you're more vehement and judgemental on the subject of fish bowls than on any other hot topic.

Ha! I get that way. I had someone explain to me how they kept a Betta in vase and "let it" eat the stem of the plant that was kept in there. Boy, did I unload... Anytime I hear about people purchasing fish or "getting into the hobby", I am right over giving advice...

Gary

wen u jus keep buyin fish that dont fit in yur tank and at that time u ask can i get a bigger tank plz they wont all fit.

wen u actually own a fish store and import wat u want and not the customer supply other lfs with fish u bred and sell then at a very good price.

wen yur family is sik and tired of u spending all those internet hours on fp and then readin a fish book.

Can anyone translate that?

I think they mean this:

When you keep buying fish that don't fit in your tank, then ask for a bigger tank.

When you own a fish store and import what you, not the customer, want.

When your family is sick and tired of you spending all those hours on FishProfiles and reading fish books.

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They shade the glow of it with their mossy-misty costumes,
They wear masks of silk, porcelain, brass, and silver,
So as not to mislead with their own, ordinary faces.

when even though this is 16 pages long you still feel you must tell all these other people who think the same way as you about you sad behaviours. here goes....

when you persuade your Dad to drive you to the LFS pratically every week

when you flirt with the salepeople in the lfs to get a discount and it works, cos not a lot of women go to my LFS!

when someone asks you what are you daydreaming about and you happliy say "my first betta tank"

when it is midnight, saturday night no less, and you have spent the whole night on Fp

when, lets be honest Fp is your home page.

when you cry because you baby pleco dies and gets eaten by the evil gold fish.

when you panic at work cos you forgot to feed the molly fry......and you tell people this.

when you willing call yourself Goldfish geek on the internet

when you have a fish credit card for use only in the lfs.......and you actively consider getting a credit card (even tho the interest rate is useless ) because it has a gold fish on it. I didn't get it does that redeem me!?

and tomorrow I am going to rearrange my squashed up bedroom to fit in two more tanks hopefully.....


and don't get me started on gold fish bowls..........or mates with tanks and the whole walking down the road and seeing tanks in peoples houses and restaurants thing, I got thrown out of an Indian once cos I told them their fish needed a bigger tank etc ]:|.my friends nearly killed me

an how off to bed now. Have unloaded enough

night all



gfg

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Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself.
Harvey S. Firestone

When you're flipping through next years wilderness calander (by a world acclaimed photographer) and you come accross a photo of cliffs with nice big black smooth rocks at the bottom of it and your first thought is how nice they would look in a fish tank and wonder if there is any way to go and get some, and after that if there would be any small enough to fit in any of the tanks that I have, I mean there is always the olympic sized pond I will have in my garden once I have a house.

Claire

Considering a pond. 10years from now, will be building a Zen gardnen in the backyard. Already considering what I am stocking it with and how many. Never mind the extensive work of setting it up. I have the pond already stocked.

...when you see larger and fancy aquariums and start stocking and decorating them in your mind. Not realizing that your spouse is already halfway down the store.

Gary

You know you are obssesed with fish when....

~you r desperate enough to look on EbAy for a new tank
~you get on fp.com as much as possible
~you play with your fish

P.S. Thanx guys... I now know i'm obsessed

YKUROWF when

You start playing "fantasy league fish tank designer" on the way to work

You start reading ever sentence as "fishy fishy fish fish, swimmy fishy fish"

you spend an afternoon reading a thread titled "you know you're obsessed with fish when"

fishy fishy fish fish, swimmy fishy fish

when you want to buy the local swimming pool to make a biiig koi tank out of..

when you buy your fish a christmas present

when your fish have an advent calendar

fishy fishy fish fish, swimmy fishy fish

when you become an FP premium member

YKUROWF when

You work at the bloody fish shop and on ur days off you go shopping for fish, the only books you read is about fish and without fish you will die....just like me

When you have all the lfs hours memorised, so you will never again get there a half hour before opening and have to go to a store that doesn't even have books about fish in it...

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Does dat make me a fish freak? I can memories the opening times and closin times of the fish store. I Got fish everywhere in my house and at work! Im work in the marine aquarium industry in australia...when i got days offm i always go viste other LFS... ]

MangoR34, ok, I think you're obsessed, then again, the staff at the Local Petsmart, know me by name. 3 times a week I take a "stroll" to check out their "stock". Usually go in, mingle, and place "special" orders for plants and fish (well knowing all my tanks are brimming at capacity).

Gary

When.........

You can't imagine there was a time when you didn't keep fish

When you have a dream about how funny it would be to see the cory in carissa_aggie's post act like flipper....I think I'm on FP too much .




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You know when you are obsessed with fish when:

You are a member of a tropical fish online forum.

You ask for a bigger aquarium for every christmas.

You cannot sleep at night from constant filter noise.

Your friends call you " papa of the betta fish" as a nick name...lol, don't ask. (I have a friend who calls me that).

You buy brine shrimp eggs by the case.

You are broke because you spend all your money on the hobby.


~*~ Caviar? no thanks! ~*~

...the day you start to wonder if you've ever dreamed about fish, you do ... and like it.

...you fill a class notebook so full of thoughts, plans, and potential aquascapes for your tanks that you feel the need to label "Real Notes." Also, you sometimes forget what class those notes are for.

...you want to get home after finals to see the fish, your family, and the dog, in that order. And then the fish again.

...you also want to get home so you can start entirely changing everything about each aquarium. Again.

...you consider moving away from home over the summer to get a full-time fish-store job between semesters


And here's "You know you're obsessed with planted tanks when":

...you find yourself eyeing smaller and smaller aquariums, when you used to ogle 240s.

...you see a single marine planted and commit yourself to trying it.

...you're willing to forgo fish in any setup with high enough light to play with.

...you rant almost as much about strip lights as about goldfish bowls or world hunger.

...your town pride stems purely from the fact that a well-known power compact seller runs out of said town. And that you don't have to pay shipping.

...you judge stores on their plant stocks ... even non-pet stores.

...you subscribed to a magazine from "across the pond" just because of a moderatly good plant column. (Good thing the rest of Practical Fishkeeping is top-notch!)

-Molly
Visit shelldwellers.com!

...when you can't sleep without constant filter noise or some other suitable white noise substitute (a humidifier is ok)

...when there never was a time you *didn't* keep fish, well at least not after you were tall enough to open the lid and drop a pinch of food in a tank

LittleMouseling, those sound all too familiar. My mom tells me my baby brichardis are as big as their parents were when I got them. I can't wait to see them (and my synodontis cats, and my barbs, and the goldfish in the pond assuming they'll come out...)

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... when you start your week and your co-workers ask you how your fish are doing...

When you go to every fish store in a 100 mile radius to make out your Christmas wish list.

when you hang a christmas stocking on the fireplace with your fishes name on it

when you quit your current job to take a job at a LFS.....and take a $2 an hour pay cut.

When you start telling people that its not a hobby.....and telling them its a lifestyle.

...when you get up in the morning and find yourself gazing at your fish, before the coffees on..
...when your power has gone out for to long and you phone the LPS on what to do??!! (I did) and they say stir the tank with a wooden spoon.]..( so I did)..
...spent 400bucks for a generator..just incase it happens again..and fill the tub..
...when you have more fish meds(just in case) in the cupboard than you do asprin for yourself..
...when you start talking to them

see yah Sue

40gal 1 convict,2 electric blues(M and F)1 pleco..10gal cycling

when you take you girl friend to the city aquarium on your first date....

Mango... whats wrong with that? Thats a cool idea. Sure wish I had a City Aquarium here in Nowheresville Ontario. I think if there was one here in Windsor, I would definately have "season passes".

Gary

was she impreesed mango?

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Billy was a scientist, Billy is no more. For what he thought was H20, was H2SO4

1. You hardly play your favorite online game anymore, even though there's a clan with 12 people wondering where you are... (It's your clan)

2. a) Your oscars come to the front of the tank with mouth open, and wiggling side to side b) You make faces at them and start wiggling side to side.

3. You wonder how your friends fish is recovering, and they live in a different country.

4. You spend $800. on car repairs, then when you're broke, you scrape up $$$ to upgrade your lighting, add CO2, get melafix, hikari pellets... and so on... and buy another plant. Then kick yourself for forgetting check valves and a test kit.

5. Have you ever told a LFS owner off ? Told a LFS employee something "basic" that they did not know ?

6. You tell the LFS owner, if I come back here again within a month I'll get disowned...

7. The girls working checkout in the LFS start looking mighty attractive.

8. You haven't washed your car for 2 months, but you've done something to/in your tank every other day.

9. You make a "funny fishy face" when you kiss someone..

10. You start looking at your parents forest as a possible source of driftwood..



The Amazon Nut...

i double on the online game

Your parents ask you the scientific name of every fish in your tank, just so they can snicker at you because you can't help but tell them...

Everytime you walk past the office across the hall from yours, you stare at the tank on the desk, even though it's only a 5 gallon with a couple of swordtails...

When you are told that you will be moving into said office, the first thing you ask is 'Will the fish stay here?'

You can accurately judge the capacity of most tanks and/or containers which might hold water...in US gallons, even though you are Australian...

You can't think in anything but gallons and inches, because you spend most of your time talking fish with Americans on FP!

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The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. - Oscar Wilde

You're teachers, teachers of all people come up and ask you for advice regarding fish!!!!

You can accurately judge the capacity of most tanks and/or containers which might hold water...in US gallons, even though you are Australian...

You can't think in anything but gallons and inches, because you spend most of your time talking fish with Americans on FP!

Damn that annoys me.

Me too. I'll say a tank capacity in gallons and BF says, ok in proper terms now, so I'll say how many feet, and then he goes, no we use the metric system here, litres please.

Claire.

OK how bout...when mates come over and check out the fish tanks...and while they're not looking you inconspicuosly use your shirt to wipe off the water change stains from earlier that morning. Even when theres a towl at arms reach.
Or when you lose a fish and have a burial. With a minutes silence out of respect.
Mabe we can dedicate a day to all the fish that have met with death?
Jus

I like that Day of the Dead for Fish idea. ^_^ (I never thought this thread would have gone this far when I started it. ^_^)

You can accurately judge the capacity of most tanks and/or containers which might hold water...in US gallons, even though you are Australian...

You can't think in anything but gallons and inches, because you spend most of your time talking fish with Americans on FP!

Damn that annoys me.

Same here, Dave.

Yanks... Pfft...

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I'm not your neighbor, you Bakersfield trash.

You can't bear to see this thread end...ever...

you dream of filters



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You know you are obsessed with fish when....

Your brother gives you a whirlpool jet for your bathtub as a Christmas present and you wonder what kind of current it would generate for your saltwater tank..

you dream of filters

A few nights ago, I actually had a nightmare that all of the filters on my tanks were catching on fire...lol...and I was trying to put out the fires.

~*~ Caviar? no thanks! ~*~

..I like number 10 DaFishMan..ive done the same..hehehehehe....Weeeeeeeeeeeee

I dream of fish jumping out. -_-

You know you're obsessed with fish when you can tell the gender of all the fish in your tanks (or at least most)...

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OH!!! I got a good one!

When you abbreviate "Local Fish Store" as LFS...lol

When yopu say "I have to go to the LFS"

~*~ Caviar? no thanks! ~*~

when this thread is 18 pages long and hasnt slowed down in 6 months and you sit there for however long it takes to read them all and then deny it... because i didnt do that

... you feed them expensive sw sport fish and youre livin on HAMBURGER HELPER.

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you dream that you are going to get a new fish that you are pretty certain doesnt actually exist but you want to make sure, but then you can't remember the name of it, grrrr. It was such a cool fish too, it got to about 4 foot long, lived in rivers, it was called a river d___ and ate in a similar way to a baleen whale, it would take in big mouthfuls of water and then squooshes the water out through vents in the bottom of his mouth and is left with the food. And I was going to have 3 of theese. Now how cool would that have been?
Claire.

You take a walk to say hi to the fishies that live down the street from the hotel you are staying at in Haifa before the walk down the hill (mountain )



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you look for the LFS when you are on holiday...then say u aren't coming back when you don't find it....that may only apply to remote westcoast towns in NZ

...when you're still replying to a thread that was made 6 months ago...

(1) Rather than concentrate on a current dilema at work, you are thinking about new Aquascaping ideas. Or contemplation of an "Aquascaping Diary Of A New Tank" concept to keep everyone posted on the 'Net of your progress.

(2) You think about tanks you have saw and try to figure ways to improve them.

(3) Restocking tanks over and over again until you can almost see it in front of you.

(4) Realizing you are a Fish-a-holic and need help.

Gary
BTW:I have 2 Tanks on the go right now. This is fun.

Wow... I hardly realized I posted this six months ago! Pretty crazy.

You have another "fishy nightmare" and have to spend time convincing yourself that the Diamond Tetras are going to be fine because while the fish in the nightmare were shiny and silver, they were obviously not Diamond Tetras....

When you get plants in the mail (@the office) and can't wait to open the box so you do...right there....getting water all over the mixer and keyboard ....then promply set up a Water Change bucket with light and the plant cause you just don't have the time to put them in the tank right then....but still wanna see them....


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when you sell your car to buy more fish tanks

I'm guilty of lots
including fp as home page and replying to this thread 6 months later

... When you really aren't shocked by the fact that this thread is revived... again... and again... and again. ^_^

lol demos.

I think you must be obsessed when you have read all 19 pages of this thread not once.....but twice

I won't reveal if i have done this or not

I've definitely read this multiple times.

LOL babel.

You know you are obsessed with fish when you can look at anyone's aquarium and name the species of every fish in the tank by the scientific name and you know all of the common and nicknames as well.

You know you are obsessed with fish when...... I got nothing...

~*~ Caviar? no thanks! ~*~

You end up kissing your lover thinking of being able to kiss your discus that have just bred

...you keep coming back to this thread enough times to notice that the "this thread is still being replied to" quips are really getting old...

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...when you know your betta's age to the day. (my betta is 1 year and 8 days old).

~*~ Caviar? no thanks! ~*~

i am currenly mising the end of my pinkie thanks to my arowana.

...you know the price of every species the LFS's within 20 miles carry by heart...

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...you sit and watch the co2 diffuser you just built for 10 minutes just to watch what happens when the bubble gets too big. ....to make sure it's working right.

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"That's the trouble with political jokes in this country... they get elected!" -- Dave Lippman

You go the your LFS and you know how many fish were purchased in the past few days

..... worse, the majority of those fish were purchased by you.

when you are on a forum with two threads about how obsessed by fish you are and one is "you may be obsessed..." and the other "You know you are obsessed..." and you can only think of replies for the "you know..." one.

...thats a good one Rasco...lol

~*~ Caviar? no thanks! ~*~

when you do the following:
1. When you draw fish in your note book and are able to tell exactally what species they are.

2.You are up set because the store put a sea horse and a goldfish and coral and angel fish all on the same cake.

3. When all you want for christmas and your birthday is a aquarium.

4.When you miss your fish because you have not seen them in a day. and you do not miss your sisters that you have not seen for a year.

5. You stop because you see a aquarium light in a persons house and try to see what they have in it.

6. When you watch a show to see the fish in the background.
(I have done all of this stuff)

When you meet someone at a party and go back to their house to look at their fish.

When you bleach and then dechlorinate your own hands in between feeding each fish in case you spread something.

My right hand looks about 50 years older than my left, has about half the skin and is swelled to about twice the size. But I've stopped all the diseases in my betta tanks!

Or when you crash your car and decide to buy a new 20 gallon and a new 4 gallon ad a new female betta and choose to walk everywhere instead.

elisecroft wow!...*hands over an aloe leaf* for when you're done feeding for the day

~You want a bumper sticker that reads "will brake for fishtanks"

~You willingly sacrifice your thumbnail to the razor blade gods while working on something for the tank

~You're still waging a war on BGA in a tank even though you thought the war was over a few months ago...but still don't have the heart to send in the heavy artillery (antibiotics)...although they're comming next weekend...I'm tired of pulling green buggers from the tank.

~You buy a drill just so you can make a DIY CO2 unit

~You hunt all over town trying to find the right kind of bulbs for the tank w/o having to pay extra for them @the LFS

~You make 4 trips to the hardware store for pieces for a DIY light thinking "I have no clue what I'm doing" and laughing all the way because doubling the wpg on that tank will just be excellent .

~Your parents get you a 1 year membership to the national Aquarium in Baltimore

~You trade cookies for plants .


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[font color="#000080"]EDIT: This just in....the people you work for know you're obsessed with fish when they translate a piece of poetry for you that they just read in a program because it's about fish.

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When you order a 150 gallon Rubbermaid horse/stock tank to be an 'indoor' pond for your clown loaches, and then realize the day before you pick it up you didn't even think about whether it can fit through your doorway!

You want a bumper sticker that reads "will brake for fishtanks"

i resemble that remark

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"That's the trouble with political jokes in this country... they get elected!" -- Dave Lippman

when u go to the lfs just to look at there fish(not buy just look)....everyday(i did that for a week then stopped when my grades dropped below a B)

You are almost ecstatic about having a reason to get a new tank that's even larger. Even if it means that you had to clean 20 gallons of fishy water from the living room floor.

Did ya'll know that in times of panic, you can keep your fish in a plastic storage bucket. And I know it wasn't the right thing to do, but the tank was empty, and a net wouldn't work, but my hands did quite well at catching those goldfish and pleco. (Johnathan Patrick; pleco; was quite irate by this move, but was happy to be back in the water.)

"I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom." Thomas Carlyle

When you go the richest girl in school's house, and everyone is soooo busy trying to impress her, but you're over by her saltwater tank drolling and saying, "Oooooo, fish!"
Brandi

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hmm....when u think more about fish than school work at school. when u move ur fish to ur new tank to make room in the old so it will be not as closed to overstocked and be able to add more cory's to have a complete school because u didnt know they needed 6 hmm....sounds like me [end of rant] o and u are worried about other peoples fish and are constantly talking about fish to ur friend during school this sounds A LOT like me

1. You hardly play your favorite online game anymore, even though there's a clan with 12 people wondering where you are... (It's your clan)

2. a) Your oscars come to the front of the tank with mouth open, and wiggling side to side b) You make faces at them and start wiggling side to side.

3. You wonder how your friends fish is recovering, and they live in a different country.

4. You spend $800. on car repairs, then when you're broke, you scrape up $$$ to upgrade your lighting, add CO2, get melafix, hikari pellets... and so on... and buy another plant. Then kick yourself for forgetting check valves and a test kit.

5. Have you ever told a LFS owner off ? Told a LFS employee something "basic" that they did not know ?

6. You tell the LFS owner, if I come back here again within a month I'll get disowned...

7. The girls working checkout in the LFS start looking mighty attractive.

8. You haven't washed your car for 2 months, but you've done something to/in your tank every other day.

9. You make a "funny fishy face" when you kiss someone..

10. You start looking at your parents forest as a possible source of driftwood..



The Amazon Nut...

i double on the online game

Your parents ask you the scientific name of every fish in your tank, just so they can snicker at you because you can't help but tell them...

Everytime you walk past the office across the hall from yours, you stare at the tank on the desk, even though it's only a 5 gallon with a couple of swordtails...

When you are told that you will be moving into said office, the first thing you ask is 'Will the fish stay here?'

You can accurately judge the capacity of most tanks and/or containers which might hold water...in US gallons, even though you are Australian...

You can't think in anything but gallons and inches, because you spend most of your time talking fish with Americans on FP!

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The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. - Oscar Wilde

You're teachers, teachers of all people come up and ask you for advice regarding fish!!!!

You can accurately judge the capacity of most tanks and/or containers which might hold water...in US gallons, even though you are Australian...

You can't think in anything but gallons and inches, because you spend most of your time talking fish with Americans on FP!

Damn that annoys me.

Me too. I'll say a tank capacity in gallons and BF says, ok in proper terms now, so I'll say how many feet, and then he goes, no we use the metric system here, litres please.

Claire.

OK how bout...when mates come over and check out the fish tanks...and while they're not looking you inconspicuosly use your shirt to wipe off the water change stains from earlier that morning. Even when theres a towl at arms reach.
Or when you lose a fish and have a burial. With a minutes silence out of respect.
Mabe we can dedicate a day to all the fish that have met with death?
Jus

I like that Day of the Dead for Fish idea. ^_^ (I never thought this thread would have gone this far when I started it. ^_^)

You can accurately judge the capacity of most tanks and/or containers which might hold water...in US gallons, even though you are Australian...

You can't think in anything but gallons and inches, because you spend most of your time talking fish with Americans on FP!

Damn that annoys me.

Same here, Dave.

Yanks... Pfft...

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I'm not your neighbor, you Bakersfield trash.

You can't bear to see this thread end...ever...

you dream of filters



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You know you are obsessed with fish when....

Your brother gives you a whirlpool jet for your bathtub as a Christmas present and you wonder what kind of current it would generate for your saltwater tank..

you dream of filters

A few nights ago, I actually had a nightmare that all of the filters on my tanks were catching on fire...lol...and I was trying to put out the fires.

~*~ Caviar? no thanks! ~*~

..I like number 10 DaFishMan..ive done the same..hehehehehe....Weeeeeeeeeeeee

I dream of fish jumping out. -_-

You know you're obsessed with fish when you can tell the gender of all the fish in your tanks (or at least most)...

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OH!!! I got a good one!

When you abbreviate "Local Fish Store" as LFS...lol

When yopu say "I have to go to the LFS"

~*~ Caviar? no thanks! ~*~

when this thread is 18 pages long and hasnt slowed down in 6 months and you sit there for however long it takes to read them all and then deny it... because i didnt do that

... you feed them expensive sw sport fish and youre livin on HAMBURGER HELPER.

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you dream that you are going to get a new fish that you are pretty certain doesnt actually exist but you want to make sure, but then you can't remember the name of it, grrrr. It was such a cool fish too, it got to about 4 foot long, lived in rivers, it was called a river d___ and ate in a similar way to a baleen whale, it would take in big mouthfuls of water and then squooshes the water out through vents in the bottom of his mouth and is left with the food. And I was going to have 3 of theese. Now how cool would that have been?
Claire.

You take a walk to say hi to the fishies that live down the street from the hotel you are staying at in Haifa before the walk down the hill (mountain )



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you look for the LFS when you are on holiday...then say u aren't coming back when you don't find it....that may only apply to remote westcoast towns in NZ

...when you're still replying to a thread that was made 6 months ago...

(1) Rather than concentrate on a current dilema at work, you are thinking about new Aquascaping ideas. Or contemplation of an "Aquascaping Diary Of A New Tank" concept to keep everyone posted on the 'Net of your progress.

(2) You think about tanks you have saw and try to figure ways to improve them.

(3) Restocking tanks over and over again until you can almost see it in front of you.

(4) Realizing you are a Fish-a-holic and need help.

Gary
BTW:I have 2 Tanks on the go right now. This is fun.

Wow... I hardly realized I posted this six months ago! Pretty crazy.

You have another "fishy nightmare" and have to spend time convincing yourself that the Diamond Tetras are going to be fine because while the fish in the nightmare were shiny and silver, they were obviously not Diamond Tetras....

When you get plants in the mail (@the office) and can't wait to open the box so you do...right there....getting water all over the mixer and keyboard ....then promply set up a Water Change bucket with light and the plant cause you just don't have the time to put them in the tank right then....but still wanna see them....


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when you sell your car to buy more fish tanks

I'm guilty of lots
including fp as home page and replying to this thread 6 months later

... When you really aren't shocked by the fact that this thread is revived... again... and again... and again. ^_^

lol demos.

I think you must be obsessed when you have read all 19 pages of this thread not once.....but twice

I won't reveal if i have done this or not

I've definitely read this multiple times.

LOL babel.

You know you are obsessed with fish when you can look at anyone's aquarium and name the species of every fish in the tank by the scientific name and you know all of the common and nicknames as well.

You know you are obsessed with fish when...... I got nothing...

~*~ Caviar? no thanks! ~*~

You end up kissing your lover thinking of being able to kiss your discus that have just bred

...you keep coming back to this thread enough times to notice that the "this thread is still being replied to" quips are really getting old...

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...when you know your betta's age to the day. (my betta is 1 year and 8 days old).

~*~ Caviar? no thanks! ~*~

i am currenly mising the end of my pinkie thanks to my arowana.

...you know the price of every species the LFS's within 20 miles carry by heart...

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...you sit and watch the co2 diffuser you just built for 10 minutes just to watch what happens when the bubble gets too big. ....to make sure it's working right.

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"That's the trouble with political jokes in this country... they get elected!" -- Dave Lippman

You go the your LFS and you know how many fish were purchased in the past few days

..... worse, the majority of those fish were purchased by you.

when you are on a forum with two threads about how obsessed by fish you are and one is "you may be obsessed..." and the other "You know you are obsessed..." and you can only think of replies for the "you know..." one.

...thats a good one Rasco...lol

~*~ Caviar? no thanks! ~*~

when you do the following:
1. When you draw fish in your note book and are able to tell exactally what species they are.

2.You are up set because the store put a sea horse and a goldfish and coral and angel fish all on the same cake.

3. When all you want for christmas and your birthday is a aquarium.

4.When you miss your fish because you have not seen them in a day. and you do not miss your sisters that you have not seen for a year.

5. You stop because you see a aquarium light in a persons house and try to see what they have in it.

6. When you watch a show to see the fish in the background.
(I have done all of this stuff)

When you meet someone at a party and go back to their house to look at their fish.

When you bleach and then dechlorinate your own hands in between feeding each fish in case you spread something.

My right hand looks about 50 years older than my left, has about half the skin and is swelled to about twice the size. But I've stopped all the diseases in my betta tanks!

Or when you crash your car and decide to buy a new 20 gallon and a new 4 gallon ad a new female betta and choose to walk everywhere instead.

elisecroft wow!...*hands over an aloe leaf* for when you're done feeding for the day

~You want a bumper sticker that reads "will brake for fishtanks"

~You willingly sacrifice your thumbnail to the razor blade gods while working on something for the tank

~You're still waging a war on BGA in a tank even though you thought the war was over a few months ago...but still don't have the heart to send in the heavy artillery (antibiotics)...although they're comming next weekend...I'm tired of pulling green buggers from the tank.

~You buy a drill just so you can make a DIY CO2 unit

~You hunt all over town trying to find the right kind of bulbs for the tank w/o having to pay extra for them @the LFS

~You make 4 trips to the hardware store for pieces for a DIY light thinking "I have no clue what I'm doing" and laughing all the way because doubling the wpg on that tank will just be excellent .

~Your parents get you a 1 year membership to the national Aquarium in Baltimore

~You trade cookies for plants .


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[font color="#000080"]EDIT: This just in....the people you work for know you're obsessed with fish when they translate a piece of poetry for you that they just read in a program because it's about fish.

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When you order a 150 gallon Rubbermaid horse/stock tank to be an 'indoor' pond for your clown loaches, and then realize the day before you pick it up you didn't even think about whether it can fit through your doorway!

You want a bumper sticker that reads "will brake for fishtanks"

i resemble that remark

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"That's the trouble with political jokes in this country... they get elected!" -- Dave Lippman

when u go to the lfs just to look at there fish(not buy just look)....everyday(i did that for a week then stopped when my grades dropped below a B)

You are almost ecstatic about having a reason to get a new tank that's even larger. Even if it means that you had to clean 20 gallons of fishy water from the living room floor.

Did ya'll know that in times of panic, you can keep your fish in a plastic storage bucket. And I know it wasn't the right thing to do, but the tank was empty, and a net wouldn't work, but my hands did quite well at catching those goldfish and pleco. (Johnathan Patrick; pleco; was quite irate by this move, but was happy to be back in the water.)

"I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom." Thomas Carlyle

When you go the richest girl in school's house, and everyone is soooo busy trying to impress her, but you're over by her saltwater tank drolling and saying, "Oooooo, fish!"
Brandi

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hmm....when u think more about fish than school work at school. when u move ur fish to ur new tank to make room in the old so it will be not as closed to overstocked and be able to add more cory's to have a complete school because u didnt know they needed 6 hmm....sounds like me [end of rant] o and u are worried about other peoples fish and are constantly talking about fish to ur friend during school this sounds A LOT like me