You know you're a fishkeeper when...

... you're tidying out your car and you come across the shell of a Malaysian trumpet snail!

When your friends come over for dinner and instead of a bottle of wine they bring you frozen stendker beefheart

When I go shopping with the wife and every plastic tub I see im thinking could I use that somewhere in the fish room

Eric

When all I think about is a new tank ha big discus tank on the menu for me now the missus will kill me I should be keeping all my cash for our new gaff but hey I say new gaff new tank ha

When you have brine shrimp or daphia bags in your fridge

When any time there is a movie on, you notice the fish tank in the background and what's in it.... and then comment on it.

baan wrote: When any time there is a movie on, you notice the fish tank in the background and what's in it.... and then comment on it.

Caught myself doing that quite a few times. While everyone else is oohing and aahing over an action scene, I'm sitting there thinking "there's no way he should have them in there with cichlids!"

Aroshni wrote: When you have brine shrimp or daphia bags in your fridge

I keep mine in a box marked Do Not Open... and guess what everybody does!

LemonJelly wrote:

Aroshni wrote: When you have brine shrimp or daphia bags in your fridge

I keep mine in a box marked Do Not Open... and guess what everybody does!

Shhhh my husband doesn't know I have them since he doesn't look at the upper door tray...better this way lol

when you bring the mrs "shopping" in blanchardstown but meet 3 different people outside tk maxx to give fish related stuff to!

Aroshni wrote:

LemonJelly wrote:

Aroshni wrote: When you have brine shrimp or daphia bags in your fridge

I keep mine in a box marked Do Not Open... and guess what everybody does!

Shhhh my husband doesn't know I have them since he doesn't look at the upper door tray...better this way lol

Secrets? In a marriage?

when your wife complains and says that you spend more time at the fish tanks than with me

Remy wrote: when your wife complains and says that you spend more time at the fish tanks than with me

That should be your cue to put her into a tank

When you plant tree to use the leaves and cones in your shrimp tank

Anthony

anthonyd wrote: When you plant tree to use the leaves and cones in your shrimp tank

Anthony

lolllll

When you tell your kids there are wasps in their treehouse so you can use it to dry some nettles to feed your shrimps during the winter .


Anthony

When you look up the fish section on DoneDeal more than once a week and at least five visits to adverts.ie for a bargain or two lol

irish-zx10r wrote: When you look up the fish section on DoneDeal more than once a week and at least five visits to adverts.ie for a bargain or two lol

Even worse, when you look at those sites knowing that no matter how good the deals are you won't be able to get another tank... but you still look!

when you never have enough buckets . . .

Jim wrote: when you never have enough buckets . . .

If you ever do have enough buckets, it's only because you don't have enough fish tanks

YES!

....and then your OH nicknames you Rommel 'cos youre always asking for more tanks .

Jim wrote: YES!

....and then your OH nicknames you Rommel 'cos youre always asking for more tanks .

That's a classic, my compliments to your OH

when you have 6 packets of frozen treats for the tank and the ms yelling at you saying its taking up half the freezer..



S.

The oh talks about growing gills so you will pay her some attention

And the kids know more lattin fish names than they do Irish words

When you use every excuse under the sun to get away to buy a fish that's 100 mile away and still have smile on your face after all the hardship

irish-zx10r wrote: When you use every excuse under the sun to get away to buy a fish that's 100 mile away and still have smile on your face after all the hardship

And the missus is furious because she can't get you to drive 100 yards for milk...

irish-zx10r wrote: When you use every excuse under the sun to get away to buy a fish that's 100 mile away and still have smile on your face after all the hardship

Nothing better than a good road trip to get a cool fish

And they keep using that same old saying I bet if it was next to the fish shop we go lol

LemonJelly wrote:

irish-zx10r wrote: When you use every excuse under the sun to get away to buy a fish that's 100 mile away and still have smile on your face after all the hardship

And the missus is furious because she can't get you to drive 100 yards for milk...

Ski wrote:

irish-zx10r wrote: When you use every excuse under the sun to get away to buy a fish that's 100 mile away and still have smile on your face after all the hardship

Nothing better than a good road trip to get a cool fish

One in Dublin got it one in limerick in the same week I might be pushing my luck lol