You know you've gotten a liitle obsessed when...

[littlefishie]

How 'bout this one.. I've actually done it.

When you mutter about your fish tanks in your sleep, yelling at your significant other 'don't touch the damned fish tank, you don't know what you're doing! *mutter, grumble* i want to go to the fish store tomorrow...'
And then when you wake up and they tell you about your mumblings, you just laugh.

 

[Yenko]

I do/have done the following:

Fiddle with tanks at least once a day, if not twice.

Constantly monitor plant health; I'll even stick my hand in to clean settled junk off of my hygro leaves almost daily.

About 5 seconds after buying a 70 gallon tank I wanted a bigger one. I don't think I'll be able to act on that fantasy, but I'd certianly like to.

 

[gwlee7]

About 5 seconds after buying a 70 gallon tank I wanted a bigger one.  I don't think I'll be able to act on that fantasy, but I'd certianly like to.

I know the feeling here. I started keeping fish around my birthday (Sept. 23) of last year. I was smart enough to read up and get a 55 gallon tank as my first tank. It started as my community tank but very soon I had the 30 long tank and it was my tiger barb tank but, now it is my community tank and the 29 gallon I bought at X-mas is the tiger barb tank and, the 55 gallon has become a Mbuna tank. Oh, the 10 gallon "hospital" tank in my sig needs to be changed to planted community tank as well.

 

[jflowers]

I know the feeling here. I started keeping fish around my bithday (Sept. 23) of last year. I was smart enough to read up and get a 55 galoon tank as my first tank. It started as my commnity tank but very soon I had the 30 long tank and it was my tiger barb tank but now it is my community tank and the 29 gallon I bought at X-mas is the tiger barb tank and the 55 gallon has become a Mbuna tank. Oh, the 10 gallon "hospital" tank in my sig needs to be changed to planted community tank as well.

Thats me!!!

Jon

 

[cometcattle]

You're seriously considering moving the microwave oven into storage, because a 10g would fit perfectly.

Factor in your favorite fish store's location when planning your next address change.

When you've used Melafix on a human wound.

 

[candy]

you start putting tanks in ur bfs house cause uv run out of room.

all ur friends now have tanks

u get fish stuf for ur birthday

 

[Squirrelbuddies]

*When you start using speakerphone when your kids call so you can still fiddle with your tanks while you're talking.

*When you fall asleep at night reading fish books.

*When you cry (out of sadness) when you end the suffering of a little buddy.

*And when you cry (out of joy) when your nitrite reading finally drops to zero when fishless cycling.

 

[littlefishie]

When you're considering a house for university next year not only because it's a nice, cheap house, but it happens to be within a 5 minute walk of the LFS.
When the majority of your Christmas presents are fish-related.
When you walk into the LFS and are greeted by name, or even nickname. [I am the Betta Girl!]

 

[moneywastedonfish]

when you visit friends and spend the hole time looking at there tank, are able to id the fish they own but can't id.

You make $400 dollars a fortnight and have spent $125 on fish gear before payday ends.

You end your holidays early because you 'have a bad feeling about my fish'

 

[breezer40]

How about...

You start to insist on testing any water before allowing the family to drink it.

 

[Paul_MTS]

When your at work and you just look for things to buy next....working in a fish shop makes it wuite easy to spend.

When local water stats are considered for moving.

When 99.9% of wages are spent on fish.

When you spend in the hundreds for a single fish.

oh and when you go on holiday to look for local fish shops to visit.

 

[SirMinion]

When you'd happily drive further to visit a fish store than you would to visit a relative.

 

[hellohefalump]

When you mutter about your fish tanks in your sleep, yelling at your significant other 'don't touch the damned fish tank, you don't know what you're doing! *mutter, grumble* i want to go to the fish store tomorrow...'
And then when you wake up and they tell you about your mumblings, you just laugh.

LOL reminds me... real incident (in my dream I came downstairs to feed Philip his snails and there were thousands of them all in little formations):

me: HOLY SH*T!!!!
sig other: *sits bolt upright* WHAT?!
me: look at all the snails!
sig other: You're hallucinating again...
me: but look at them!!


I've moved my computer from out of my bedroom to the living room floor to make space for a tank!

When you travel two hours to spend the weekend with your sig. other, and you take the opportunity to make him drive you round the local fish shops all day!

When people ask 'how are you?', you give them the latest rundown on the health of your fish. eg: how are you? great! Philip ate all his snails and Pierre's fungus is clearing up!

 

[littlefishie]

S'okay, apparently I've done it multiple times.
Once, before I set up my 15 gallon, I apparently muttered in my sleep all the things I wanted to put in the tank, how I'd pay for it, etc. And then I'd dreamed the next week that, when I set it up, everything died. So I woke up almost in tears because I'd spent so much money and put a lot of work into it.
Then I realized I wasn't even at my house to see if they were dead.

And promptly realized how much of a moron I looked like.

 

[Polardbear]

When three people from the same LFS call you at home to tell you they've got a new shipment of swordtails in and "you've got to get down here now and see them!"

When you leave your BF in the hospital emergency room and go kill time at the Petco across the street.

When you take your BF to the hospital emergency room and you choose the hospital emergency room that you know is across the street from a Petco.

(Yes, I actually did this today. But really, there wasn't anything I could do while they were cat scanning him! It helped me destress a little to look at the fishies, but I'm not going to tell him where I went. )