now the boyfriend wants a tank...

[rubysoho]

Well, I brought my boyfriend to the fish store the other day and since I'm a "freshie," I automatically headed toward the freshwater fish section. I turn around to show my boyfriend these awesome german blue rams that I've been drooling over and he isn't there. Then I hear him calling my name, so I turn some corners and find him sitting infront of this 75 gallon saltwater display tank. He just points and says "I want this tank." Of course it is full of hundreds of dollars worth of anemones, corals, fish, shrimps, etc... He was a little disappointed when he found out that tank cost around $1500.

I just thought it was cute so I had to share

 

[Meredith]

awww

 

[lyquidphyre]

my boyfriend got a tank about 4 months after I started with my stuff

it is catching...

 

[William]

There are only 2 people in my entire family that don't have fishtanks.

Its a pervasive bug that infects just about everyone

 

[quarryshark]

He was a little disappointed when he found out that tank cost around $1500.

Just wait, he is looking for a way now I will bet.

 

[rubysoho]

I just think it was funny because he picked the most expensive tank in the whole place.... oh, and he wants discus too He's got a taste for high prices

 

[Menagerie]

Yikes!! Have him do PWC for you and ease him into it

 

[fishfreek]

Try to talk him down to african cichlids or something like that. Lower cost and can still be very colorful. From what you describe he is going toward the coloration of the fish/corals.

I agree to get him involved with your tanks to ease him into it. Before you know it he will be an addict needing his fix of aquatic buddies.

 

[rubysoho]

lol, yeh. He definitly liked the pretty colors He knows saltwater isn't an option at the moment. It wouldn't be until AFTER we graduate and are in a somewhat permanent address. For now, he can just help out with my tanks

 

[lmw80]

I got my boyfriend into fish too!

It's a shared addiction now!

 

[Serge]

That is so funny! In my house, it is my wife that wanted a SW tank. She always wanted SW fishes because she finds them so colourful and diversified. Well, last November she brought up the subject and suggesting perhaps a 50 to 70 gal. tank. So, off we were, for a few weeks, visiting the LFS in our area. All the while, I was surfing the net to get some info, buying books, and found this site! Well, as people say, the rest is history! I am the one who "pushed" for a bigger tank and the "works". Her suggestion became MY addiction!

8O

 

[rubysoho]

lol, that is great

 

[BrianNY]

8O What I think is odd is that none of my friends have gotten the bug. In fact all my golf buddies think I'm nuts. *LOL* But, my wife loves the fish too and that's more important. I think this is an excellent hobby for a couple to share.

 

[msuburg]

If you want to spoil him as a good girlfriend.... J/K - but once you graduate and have a job, it'll be one of your first big investments. Trust me - that's what happened to me!

Just let him go and gawk at the fish store now and then to help satifsy the saltwater cravings!

 

[rubysoho]

So, now I'm wondering, wouldn't it be cool to set up a nano reef for him? Can all the colorful things survive in that tank as well (I was reading on some of the kits and I couldn't remember light and filtration requirements...just that is was a lot more than freshwater). I'm not entirely new to saltwater because I use to help my mom a few years ago with her 55 gallon sw tank... hmmm... it would give me a chance to start talking on the saltwater board as well

 

[lyquidphyre]

that would make a good Valentines day gift =o)

 

[rubysoho]

When my college finally pays me my commission money, I'm going to think about it...speaking of school, I've got classes to get to *sigh*