10,000 hour rule - Have you met the requirements?

[Redearsunfish]

My break down:

My life as a fish keeper (in one shape or form):

8 years old (freshwater) | 9 years old (freshwater)| 10 years old (freshwater)| 11 years old (freshwater)| 12 years old (freshwater)| 13 years old (freshwater)| 14 years old (freshwater)| 15 years old (freshwater)| 16 years old (freshwater)| 17 years old (freshwater) | 18 years old (freshwater & saltwater) | (19,20,21 - chasing girls) | 22 years old (freshwater & saltwater) | 23 years old (freshwater & saltwater) | 24 years old (freshwater) | 25 years old (freshwater) | 26 years old (freshwater) | 27 years old (freshwater) | 28 years old (freshwater) | 29 years old (freshwater) | 30 years old (freshwater) | 31 years old (freshwater) | 32 years old (freshwater) | 33 years old (freshwater) | 34 years old (freshwater) | 35 years old (freshwater) | 36 years old (freshwater) | 37 years old (freshwater) | 38 years old (freshwater) | 39 years old (freshwater) | 40 years old (freshwater).

Ok, so I allow for:

8 - 18 = 11 years
22 - 40 = 18 years
29 years total. 29 X 365 = 10,585 days.

I allow for 1.2 hours per day (averaged out), either thinking about my tanks, or performing husbandry/maintenance or going to pet shops. I think that's fair. Truth be told in my earlier days of fish keeping I though about my tanks for hours and hours per day, as I do now.

So, all told, I've got roughly 12,700 + or - hours put in...

Guess what folks. That makes me part of the club. Very elitist of me, no?

Note: I'd like to comment on this part of my chart above - (19,20,21 - chasing girls) - Let me tell you, I put in three hard and long (pardon the...) years of gettin' after it. There was no time for fish. If you can do do it WITH time for fish, then your either doing it wrong, or doing it very right... depending. My three year project ended in with a marriage proposal - so it was successful.

Hey, i'm no expert, I don't believe in the word really, but i've put in my time. I hope my math is right.

You?

 

[GrantA94]

If watching fish counts I'm in!

I have had just short of 6 years total in freshwater. None in salt. As a breakdown I would say easily 1 hour a day for the first four years, then things intensified upto probably 2 hours for the next year an now, here I am probably spending 3 or 4 hours a day thinking/buying/maintaining fish.

So:
4 x 365 = 1460 x 1 = 1460
1 x 365 = 365 x 2 = 730
1 x 365 = 365 x 3.5 = 1277.5

1460 + 730 + 1277.5 = 3417.5.

I'm a long way off yet! But at 17 I have plenty of time to get into the elitist club .

Interesting thing is. Someone could keep fish for 20+ years and not get in due to keeping small fish or not having maintenance etc.

Or you could be like Andrew1002 and be doing it for a year and rack up 10000 hours - just on mfk.

Thanks for the imteresting read/math lesson...

 

[Redearsunfish]

I agree, time spent on MFK counts. its thinking about fish or tanks... it counts.

 

[PDRed302]

You've got me beat by a landslide.

I've got about 4 years in it myself (fresh water) and I've been loving every minute of it.

First year or so I didn't think about it much, just did my best to keep fish alive and my wife happy.

Then I spent about two years straight, purely devoted to the hobby. Dropping my other hobbies for a short time to get to where I am now.

This last year I have probably thought about it way more but done less actual work (excluding my current build). Having a wife and kid tends to take up a bit of my hands on time.

Hopefully my son stays interested in fish, he loves watching them now and if all goes well, I'll have a little helper to assist with the husbandry, feeding schedule and new builds in a few years.

 

[Redearsunfish]

Oh, and watch out for the "women" trap. it'll get ya, and cut your hours significantly. Its the blackhole of the fish keeping experience.

 

[Gill Blue]

did you factor in dreaming about fish?
does having fish for dinner count?
if you have more than one tank, and they are visible at the same time, does that multiply the hour by "x"? "x" being the amount of tanks visible at the same time.
I'm sure I meet or exceed the requirements. over 3 decades of fishkeeping and only catch and release with women...

 

[anarekist]

haha damn i didnt start fishkeeping till my 20's, i only have a decade in.

 

[Redearsunfish]

did you factor in dreaming about fish?
does having fish for dinner count?
if you have more than one tank, and they are visible at the same time, does that multiply the hour by "x"? "x" being the amount of tanks visible at the same time.
I'm sure I meet or exceed the requirements. over 3 decades of fishkeeping and only catch and release with women...

Catch and release is a good policy.

I didn't multiply any time for the number of tanks. Dreams count if you remember them, day dreaming or otherwise.

 

[Wiggles92]

I think that I can safely say that I'm part of the 10,000 hour fish club already...

 

[Redearsunfish]

Welcome then.