Am I Alone!

[corals b 4 bills]

My wife thinks its strange that I stay up untill all hours reading reef central forums. That I have several fish mags in the bathroom cabinet (good read), I find any excuse to go to the LFS because If I don't go the tank will suffer in someway (she knows lots of time, money, effort, ect) will be wasted. I buy new skimmer and act as if It's not driving me crazy not being able to install it when I get it home.Stareing into a dark tank at 1 in the morning hopeing to find somesort of evil coral killing villian before he completes his plans to take over the tank! Anybody have this problem? .....Or just me?

[Wiggawam]

Not alone at all, but luckily my gal is a reefer too!

[leeweber85]

haha, I think we all are like that here at RC....now at home, I'm pretty much all alone with the exception of my younger neighbor that I transformed into salt.

[Pleco420]

I think it is a pre-requisite to getting serious about the hobby......

My mission is to catch whatever is annoying my zoo colonies (No Nudis to my knowledge)

[petermai]

i'm there...

[scrmbld33]

you are not alone

[doody]

You are not alone. I blame this hobby for me being single.

[aurorafish]

Whenever mine get on me about the reef tank, i just mention her shoe addiction and all is forgiven.

[Sindjin]

I suffer from the same psychosis. Reeferholism.
Im really not sure what my wife thinks....I think she took our daughter and left a few weeks ago or something...not quite sure.
But I do know that one of my emerald crabs molted last night around 9:07pm.

:) j/k

[seamay]

I feel your pain Brother of the reef,...I have a baby due in may which I still havent found the time to look through the books to pick out the perfect name yet, somehow, I realized through careful planning and much research, that I needed to buy that T,Crocea last night and spend agonizing aclimation time and minor re-aranging time to put him in the perfect spot....NO you are not alone

[TJ]

definitely not alone- to say it's an obsession is an understatement. Our local reef clubs- feels like going to AA, except it's to FEED the habit, not supress it. :)

[Pandora]

Welcome to the club, my friend. Though I don't know if there being many of us lets any of it qualify as "normality". :)

[furforfour]

I would recommend you get a divorce and put aquariums in all the areas where your wife kept her stuff.

[LadyReefNeck]

My hubby was like you corals b 4 bills, since his tank was in the bedroom and I hardly ever saw him unless I walked in there. (Note my RC name) lol So now I frequent the forums, reading articles, etc. so that I can try to get a grasp on how his brain functions .. hee hee hee ( I know! I'll never succeed!) ... and why he's always wanting to go to the LFS. You are definitely not alone!

[ReefNeck]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=6608398#post6608398 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by ReefneckWidow
My hubby was like you corals b 4 bills, since his tank was in the bedroom and I hardly ever saw him unless I walked in there. (Note my RC name) lol So now I frequent the forums, reading articles, etc. so that I can try to get a grasp on how his brain functions .. hee hee hee ( I know! I'll never succeed!) ... and why he's always wanting to go to the LFS. You are definitely not alone!

Yea, And she failed to mention that she now has her own 29G Reef that she stares into all the time not counting the time she spends in the middle of the night peering into both Reef Tanks with a flashlight and getting excited when she sees something new. :D

[NoSchwag]

My girlfriend resents my tank and reef central.

[boxfishpooalot]

mine is a reefer also! Spending 600bucks on a wavebox means nothing to her!

I also stay up late reading RC..... Im going to start selling RC caffine pills to stay up later :lol: -to pay for this hobby.

[Sindjin]

Oh by the way...

I bought my wife the Reef Central G-String!
She wont let me post a pic though.

[ReefNeck]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=6608854#post6608854 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Sindjin
Oh by the way...

I bought my wife the Reef Central G-String!
She wont let me post a pic though.

I'm going to order one for my wife.....She said I COULD post pics!

OUCH....OUCH....Ok, Ok....She didn't really say that! :rolleye1:

[LadyReefNeck]

:blown: :blown: :blown:

[skippysmind]

If you don't feel this way you don't have the commitment to Keep a reef in the first place.

[Pandora]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=6608423#post6608423 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by ReeferMadnessFl
Yea, And she failed to mention that she now has her own 29G Reef that she stares into all the time not counting the time she spends in the middle of the night peering into both Reef Tanks with a flashlight and getting excited when she sees something new. :D

Teehee... reefing couples who go on RC to outpost each other are so cute. :D

[moses13]

My wife calls the tank my "other woman".

[mcox33]

Hubby doesn't understand at all. But he now has a nano and if I can get him involved in deciding what goes into it, well he says go ahead I don't feel like doing that stuff right now. Then when I am finished he wants to know why I stacked the rock the way I did. LOL he could have done it himself. But at least he ask why

[Tammy3770]

my husband say's its neglect.
I have 3 forums I browse, and I get annoyed when there isnt any thing I can post.I try to go to bed when he does, I usually end up getting up an hour later and logging on to RC.
It was his Idea to got the reef, now he doesn't do a thing to it.
If something needs to be adjusted in the tank he points it out to me then says he cant do it cause "his hands are dirty" but does he go to wash them? NO! he just sits there.

I do all of it.The cleaning, testing, fragging, researching, buying, catching, arranging, doseing, treating. But he gets mad if I use the phrase "My tank"

meanwhile he's at the LFS with me (on the rare occasions that he goes) saying "allergy" insted of "algae"

[corals b 4 bills]

My wife loves the tank, loves to go to the lfs, but she is 9 months pregnant with my future reefer partner (ah, I can see it now.....Two against one) . Shes going to love it i'm sure.

[corals b 4 bills]

Reading these posts just brings a tear to my eye. What time is it anyways, Wife is asleep means more info from the forum, Mothers milk!

[sbgreen]

girlfriend thought I had lost my mind when i found the gorilla crab sifting through the sand then frantically posted pics at midnight to find out what to do. i was a newbie, still am I spose. She had no idea how important that was.

now all my fish have names....i think she is liking it more and more.

fish names -

green clown goby - "greenga"
clown - "Kip" we had "Lafonda" but she died
Flasher Wrasse - "Deb"