What would make you quit the hobby

[Oddball]

I spent just under 21 years in the Navy and never fully quit. I had friends keep my prized specimens for me while my ship was deployed. I've even caught my own specimens overseas and either had them shipped back or kept them on the ship with me in modified barrels until we returned to port. When I was an instructor at NAB Coronado, I was approved to keep an aquarium in my office. Since a size was not defined in the paperwork, I set up a 240gal with a few monsters.
Where there's a will, there's a way.

 

[piranha45]

that's awesome

 

[MidasMan]

thats pretty shaweeeet

 

[oscaroo]

I would NEVER quit no matter what...!!!!

 

[PDRed302]

If my current stock of fish were killed off, I would waste no time at all in finding new replacements. There are so many countless species I yearn to keep, but can't, do to limited space...

This exactly.

Although...

I'd most likely take a long break if I were to come home from a night out to 300+ gallons of water and fish on the floor. After the clean up and repairs, I'm not sure if I could look at a fish tank for at least a few months.

...Not sure though, I may do something crazy like use the insurance money to build an ever bigger tank, lol.

 

[Trevzor]

this thread is from 2005 haha

 

[bulldovii]

Last time I quit was when I went to basic training. Started back up because my kids wanted some fish 10 years later. They got bettas and I got a dovii.

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[Fat Homer]

I would (possibly) quit if my job required me to travel for many long extended trips...

I would almost definitely quit if my tank blew out...

I would also quit if i got too old to deal with doing water changes etc, although with the way i do water changes at present, that shouldn't be a problem unless i was maybe 85+...

I would consider quitting if water quality out of the tap was impossible to control... i.e. always bad params...

 

[Fish on Fire]

I don't think I'll ever quit the hobby, maybe scale down in numbers but I'll always have at least one big tank running.

 

[skjl47]

I would (possibly) quit if my job required me to travel for many long extended trips...

I would almost definitely quit if my tank blew out...

I would also quit if i got too old to deal with doing water changes etc, although with the way i do water changes at present, that shouldn't be a problem unless i was maybe 85+...

I would consider quitting if water quality out of the tap was impossible to control... i.e. always bad params...

Hello; I find these two more likely reasons than any other. I know that as I get older some chores are more difficult. I started keeping tanks around 1959 and did have a few brief peroids of no tanks set up for one reason or another, but had always planned to pull them out of storage.

I also would not fight bad tap water. There have been a few threads where people describe very poor water quality. I can not picture fighting bad well or tap water. Threads where people attempt to alter the pH and find the balance so difficult to maintain somewhat illustrate this. My take has been to keep species that can tolerate the basic nature of my available water. I also expect poor quality water to become much more common with time.