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1. At risk- " the tourist" You go to the aquarium. You visit your friend who has a nice aquarium and like staring at their fish, but you never buy one. You think someday.
2. Recreational User/ Binger- " the cycler" You've been to petcart or petshmo and saw the pretty fishies. Lets set up a tank. Hey time to put fish in. It's been a couple of hours that 10 gallon is cycled. Time to put in that cute oscar. ... 1 day later time to burry that oscar in the back yard. Well better luck next time. Time to take down the tank and try something new like a colony of wild ferrets ( what could go wrong? )
3. Psychologically Addicted- " fish in a bowl"/ "Gary Coleman" Maybe you have a single betta or a black moor goldfish who you've named Abraham. Sometimes you talk to it, and confined your deepest darkest secretes. Sometimes it talks back. and you say "What you talkin about?"
4.Physiologically Addicted- "horder"/ Dagon level 10 You don't just have one tank. You have a room dedicated to madness. Your hands are never dry. When the aquarium count falls below double digits, you are panic. You refer to fish by their scientific names. You tell people it relaxes you. But we know the truth. ( tropheus, Petros, shrimp, killies )
5.Experimenter- "chemist"/"Doc Occ"- You know your water. You know how to to tweek it.Buffer here, buffer there. Those hard corals make you h@%* Calcium baby! You've the lumens. Forget nature. You're better than nature. You are a god of the waters. You've placed frags into this once sterile vessel, and life has sprung forth. But some day like pH this world will crash.
6.Rock Bottom- "Duce Bigalo"- You had it all the tanks, the fish, the lighting, the filters. People respected you. They came to you for advice, until you grew out that mongrel koi. Now you're alone. Maybe you've got a tank. Maybe you have a fish. But it's got 1 eye and swims head down. One too many leaky tanks. One too many bodies flushed down the toilet. Who knew the whole tank would get bloat. You became careless. Too many tanks not enough water changes.
2. Recreational User/ Binger- " the cycler" You've been to petcart or petshmo and saw the pretty fishies. Lets set up a tank. Hey time to put fish in. It's been a couple of hours that 10 gallon is cycled. Time to put in that cute oscar. ... 1 day later time to burry that oscar in the back yard. Well better luck next time. Time to take down the tank and try something new like a colony of wild ferrets ( what could go wrong? )
3. Psychologically Addicted- " fish in a bowl"/ "Gary Coleman" Maybe you have a single betta or a black moor goldfish who you've named Abraham. Sometimes you talk to it, and confined your deepest darkest secretes. Sometimes it talks back. and you say "What you talkin about?"
4.Physiologically Addicted- "horder"/ Dagon level 10 You don't just have one tank. You have a room dedicated to madness. Your hands are never dry. When the aquarium count falls below double digits, you are panic. You refer to fish by their scientific names. You tell people it relaxes you. But we know the truth. ( tropheus, Petros, shrimp, killies )
5.Experimenter- "chemist"/"Doc Occ"- You know your water. You know how to to tweek it.Buffer here, buffer there. Those hard corals make you h@%* Calcium baby! You've the lumens. Forget nature. You're better than nature. You are a god of the waters. You've placed frags into this once sterile vessel, and life has sprung forth. But some day like pH this world will crash.
6.Rock Bottom- "Duce Bigalo"- You had it all the tanks, the fish, the lighting, the filters. People respected you. They came to you for advice, until you grew out that mongrel koi. Now you're alone. Maybe you've got a tank. Maybe you have a fish. But it's got 1 eye and swims head down. One too many leaky tanks. One too many bodies flushed down the toilet. Who knew the whole tank would get bloat. You became careless. Too many tanks not enough water changes.
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