How many of your friends think your weird?
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CrimsonBlush
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I don't usually talk "fish" with my friends or family. They think I'm strange! My parents don't get why I would want another tank, and I don't even know if they will let me! I'll have to ask again...last time they said no! 
I usually don't talk about my fish with other people. One of my friends likes them, but she doesn't understand a lot about fish (like which fish is which or why a certain fish can't be kept with another). At least she listens though!
My other friends find it very weird. Very, very weird. I don't know why. Then again they are like those people who think a pet other than a dog is weird. I don't talk to them about my pets... at all. In fact I don't hang out with them very much either...
My boyfriend likes fish, but he hates when I talk too much about fish. He also thinks that I need 1 tank, maybe 2, but that's it. He has like 2 favorites and could care less about my other fish.
My brother doesn't know a thing about fish (-ahem- my sig), so I don't think he cares. He sometimes wonders where this random fish tank came from. My parents think fish are cool, but they also like only one tank. It also has to be very quiet to them, and it has to be pretty. My mom complains when there is just a little bit of algae in the bathroom tank. My mom is always urging me to throw every fish in one tank and call it a day!
My other friends find it very weird. Very, very weird. I don't know why. Then again they are like those people who think a pet other than a dog is weird. I don't talk to them about my pets... at all. In fact I don't hang out with them very much either...
My boyfriend likes fish, but he hates when I talk too much about fish. He also thinks that I need 1 tank, maybe 2, but that's it. He has like 2 favorites and could care less about my other fish.
My brother doesn't know a thing about fish (-ahem- my sig), so I don't think he cares. He sometimes wonders where this random fish tank came from. My parents think fish are cool, but they also like only one tank. It also has to be very quiet to them, and it has to be pretty. My mom complains when there is just a little bit of algae in the bathroom tank. My mom is always urging me to throw every fish in one tank and call it a day!
I used to talk about fish with my friends...before all the blank stares I realized I was getting, lol.
Dangerdoll
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hahaha, I have the same situation with my cats... the three of them.
I think this is a good thread to bring back up. My friends, they seem to appreciate my keeping fish and doing well with it... but when they hear about me and the fishboard and the tuime I spend here, the fact that I mod and the meetings, they laugh, roll their eyes, the works.
CrimsonBlush
Attemping to post rather than lurk
My parents are the same way, but my mom doesn't even think fish are cool! My tank has to be spotless or else its gross! Ugg
Crimson, you and i grew up in very different environments. My family is accustomed to snakes, geckos, fish (my mom actually had a 29 gallon saltwater whose fish she consistently killed despite my best advice), hedgehogs, my mom has a tortoise... my family for the most part thought my fish were neat.
