它开始无辜。您已经有一个只有鱼类的船只坦克并跑了相当长的时间，并想尝试您的重新保存 - 因此，一个水族馆变成了两个。也许然后，您意识到，您需要重新将一条生长的鱼类重新生产，或者正在欺负其坦克夫妇。您不能忍受标本，因此有两个坦克变成三个。接下来，您会捕获鱼类繁殖或珊瑚凹痕的虫子，并为此目的设置了另一个系统 - 三个坦克变成四个。在不知不觉中，您不能在不想像它可以拥有的海洋生物类型的情况下看着家中的一个空容器！
This scenario represents the typical progression of an especially insidious disease known to afflict marine aquarium hobbyists—Multiple Saltwater Aquarium Syndrome, or MSAS.
谁有危险？
The only known risk factor for MSAS is participation in the marine aquarium hobby, with the degree of risk being directly proportional to the duration of involvement. Regular submersion of the body in natural saltwater environments, e.g. scuba diving or snorkeling around coral reefs, may be a predisposing factor as well. Interestingly, spouses or partners of infected persons often exhibit a surprising level of immunity to the disease.
How does MSAS spread?
Dubious studies have revealed that MSAS is highly communicable and typically spread through direct exposure to the homes or fishrooms of already-infected hobbyists. Visits to particularly impressive public aquariums or even local fish stores can also spread the contagion to susceptible individuals. Family history—more precisely, having at least one first-degree relative (parent or sibling) with MSAS—may play a role as well.
MSA的症状
In its earliest stage, MSAS is easily overlooked and very difficult to distinguish from normal hobbyist behavior. However, left untreated, it can soon lead to a wide range of worrisome symptoms and comorbidities, including:
- A distinct briny smell permeating the sufferer’s household and clothing.
- 手指的持续修剪。
- Steady, inexorable loss of living space as new tanks spring up in every corner, along every wall, and atop every level surface.
- Moving children from their bedrooms to a basement crawlspace to make room for more tanks, claiming “They’ll just be happier there!”
- Exhibiting evasive or deceptive behavior, e.g., communicating with other MSAS sufferers in Pig Latin (“Allyay Iyay eednay isyay oneyay oremay anktay!”), in an effort to conceal the severity of the disease from loved ones.
- Simmering domestic discord as limited financial resources are diverted from “non-essential” expenditures—cable TV, carry-out food, kids’ tuition, etc.—to “essential” expenditures, like fish food, protein skimmers, powerheads, heaters, lights…and more tanks.
- 每当将患者从多季度环境中删除时，一般不适，迷失方向或烦躁。
可以治疗MSA吗？
没有已知的MSA治疗方法，到目前为止，还没有开发令人满意的治疗方法。MSA免疫疗法 - 逐渐暴露于患者逐渐增加海洋水族馆以使其脱敏 - 可怕地屈服，并且厌恶疗法对MSAS患者没有明显的影响，除了观看Stanley Kubrick Films的莫名其妙的强迫症。一些专家（关于水果果蝇的求爱行为）表明，MSA可能是一种自限制的疾病，最好是运行其课程。
在了解这种险恶状况的更多信息之前，建议业余爱好者在多重环境中或与感染MSA的业余爱好者交谈时保持警惕。但最重要的是，他们应该继续重复自己：“它们只是水族馆！他们不是爱！”
