1 incident away from quitting the hobby

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mscamp02

mscamp02

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I've had a bit of a rough patch and have now lost some of my favorite stock which makes me question the hobby.

Recently my 12x4 plywood sprung a small slow leak so I took it down for repairs, placed some of the stock in my other tanks and set up 2 150g tubs each with a dedicated canister (seeded and already in use) for the short term.

Sometime between last night and the night before an output hose ruptured causing all of the water to drain out but one, this had my big male Jag at a 20" disc and a female motoro....they didnt make it. This hose rupture caused my garage to flood a little bit right by the surge protector for the other canister, faulting it out and killing power to it and air and the heater. My female tiger of over 1 year in captivity didnt make it and a juvenile jag female didnt make it.

The thought I have lately is do I just want to sell everything off and recoup some money from what I still have or just wait for another failure to happen and lose even more time and money.
 
That depends on your answers to a few question...

How much time and money do you have to waste?

Do you love fishkeeping enough to risk wasting it?

Can you send your leftover stock and equipment to me? ;)
 
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Hello; I have lost pretty much all the fish I have ever kept in the last 50+ years. I have some currently that are all purchased less than five or six years ago. Point being eventually all hobby fish die. Some have died from accidents, my poor fishkeeping skills at first and, I hope, most from age. I have never traded, sold or returned a hobby fish so have no experience that way.
From time to time tanks have failed causing the loss of fish, tanks and damage to property.

Sometimes I have only one small tank going. Other times several. A few large tanks.

I do not have tanks or fish that cost more than I can afford to lose. The hobby has to stay within the limit of what might be called spare money.

A few short periods all my tanks sat empty.

Good luck with the decision.
 
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I think i can speak for most of us where some kid on incidient like this has happend over the years.....

Dont give up bud...might suck at the moment from loosing favorite stock but please dont let it make u quit the hobby. There are tough times but once u replace some of the stock slowly and take a step back and look at ur tank....im sure the smile on ur face will be there and it will be all worth it again
 
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Thank you everyone for the support, fortunately I do still have 7 healthy rays and I can easily fix the broken tank. I guess I am just upset and venting about losing 2 of my jags. My other female jag is hopefully pregnant by my male so I will use that in the short term to focus my attention.
 
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Horrible stuff mate. I feel sorry for you....I sort of know how you feel. I had 3 tank floods in the last year, 2 large, one small tank. Everything decided to go bust on me all of a sudden. One tank was 13 years old, the other had the leg in the middle collapse. The third one I broke with a kettle by accident...

I am absolutely terrified of things going wrong now, yet again, after all that happened, I am back again with a new tank. This time its a pond and not a glass tank....as if it can change anything..... but I can't even look at a glass tank right now...

I recently noticed the tubing of one of my old filters having some "rupture" marks and I meant to change it any day. Reading this made me get up from my comfy sofa immediately. I just changed the damn hoses..... So thanks :)

And good luck whatever you decide to do. I don't know what to say and this will probably not make you feel better but these accidents happen in the hobby. At least yours was in the garage. I flooded the floors in my sitting room several times.....Not nice....
 
At least you CAN bail from the hobby..... UNLESS you have the same issue I do......

After loosing every Marble I bred over the last 4 years (9 rays) I wanted out, BUT when you dedicate yourself to the MFK level in a place where NO ONE else is there is no choice but to either give everything away or stay in..... Sucks when you don't have a justifiable choice.

Sorry for your losses, sounds like you're kinda like me already too invested to bail.....

All you can do is pick yourself up and think positive -which it sounds like you are -

Forge ahead! Destination unknown!
 
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