Bit off more than you can chew??

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redtailfool

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How many of you sometimes feel like you dont have enough time to take care
of your fish ?? You feel that you have a bit more tank and fish than you could handle?? Ive been there before, and even now that i only have 3 tanks setup, i get days where i say to myself "why do i do this every 3 days ?!?!" or "why do i have to defrost , peel and cut up shrimps nightly ?? "


Just have to rant because im feeling like that a bit more than i used to lately.
 
I think this sometimes. I think i overwork on my tank though. like my 15g, ill spend 5 hours every 2nd or 3rd weekend cleaning it, scrubbing filter, alghea removal, gravel vac, water change.

Stupid school, its crap, waste of time.
 
You need to get a handle on your maint before it sucks the fun out of keeping your fish.

Keeping fish should not feel like a second or third job. Look at what you are doing and figure out if you can cut back on prep time by being more efficient.

Can you set up a drip system and stop changing water by hand. I started to feel overwelmed by the shear number of tanks I had but since I set up my drip the water in my fish tanks look like glass and have you payed attention to my stocking levels?

The guys like to tease me that my tanks look like the neon tetra tanks at the LFS except that they have large cichlids in them.

I am much more relaxed now and I am finding time to enlarge my fish room and soon will be spending some time trying to give some of my more "fridgid" fish the right conditions to spawn.

Hope this helps. :thumbsup:
 
I often wondered how you did it steve....I'm going to take your advice!
 
redtailfool said:
How many of you sometimes feel like you dont have enough time to take care
of your fish ?? You feel that you have a bit more tank and fish than you could handle?? Ive been there before, and even now that i only have 3 tanks setup, i get days where i say to myself "why do i do this every 3 days ?!?!" or "why do i have to defrost , peel and cut up shrimps nightly ?? "


Just have to rant because im feeling like that a bit more than i used to lately.
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i just wash my frozen shimp in cold water, put em in a bowl add some suppliments

cover with saranwrap, and throw it in the fridge.

let marinate over night and serve in the morning

all done in 5 min :naughty:

WHY ARE YOU PEELING THE SHELL OFF!!!! :swear:

give em that extra rougage and caratoids (spelling) :thumbsup:
 
Got the time, but don't have a good memory for when I changed water last
 
repair said:
You need to get a handle on your maint before it sucks the fun out of keeping your fish.

Keeping fish should not feel like a second or third job. Look at what you are doing and figure out if you can cut back on prep time by being more efficient.

Can you set up a drip system and stop changing water by hand. I started to feel overwelmed by the shear number of tanks I had but since I set up my drip the water in my fish tanks look like glass and have you payed attention to my stocking levels?

The guys like to tease me that my tanks look like the neon tetra tanks at the LFS except that they have large cichlids in them.

I am much more relaxed now and I am finding time to enlarge my fish room and soon will be spending some time trying to give some of my more "fridgid" fish the right conditions to spawn.

Hope this helps. :thumbsup:
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i watch a movie while my python drains the water from my tank :ROFL:
 
I feel like that sometimes, its not that I dont love my fish, I really do but I always find myself so busy with things and I am not home that much and I want my fish to be good in healthy and in good conditions and sometimes I think 3 tanks is more then I can handle how will I keep up with this b/c there is always one tank that needs something done to it I feel like that alot but then again my fish are always in good shape so I dont worry at the sametime. I feel like I dont give them enough attention =(
 
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