when you realize just how many hundreds of dollars you have spent on rocks and sand............

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When you asked for 1lb of live rock thinking that the people that you gave hundreds and hundreds of dollars of coral away to would help you but you should have known better.

...you realize you have salt stains in the armpit area of your shirt.

you realize putting eggcrate under your sand bed was about the dumbest idea ever

I remember that moment vividly :)

When the water level of your sump starts rising and rising and you are paralyzed to stop it from overflowing...

Or, another classic of mine, when you realize (the first night) that moon lighting in a tank in the bedroom is actually a terrible idea - and you just wasted money on moon lights.

when you check the buy and sell section MULTIPLE times a day

When somrone comes over to buy frags and you agreed on a price before they get there, Everything all bagged up and they say "oh, sorry I only brought this much" and it's a third of what you agreed on.

when you tell a guy you'll take all his coral from a tank shut down and you turn down the fish for an extra $100 because its just clownfish and a hippo tank... then you realize they're black ice clownfish when you go to pick up the corals but they're already sold



ps: i have 8 clownfish, anyone wanna buy a few clownfish?

I unbag. Deal is over. Get out.