Ever ask yourself why?

[jaws7777]

*sigh* going through it now :/

Me too

The fish keeping hobby is my therapy and keeps me grounded.

Me too

 

[jaws7777]

I love the hobby but am going through this right now. I only have 3 tanks running slowly got it down from 5 or 6. Would love to get it down to 2 but that would mean rehoming fish or upgrading one of the smaller tanks.

 

[hooliganATV]

my wife asked me the other day when are we going to have a holiday.

17yrs we been married. the first 10yrs were spent doing fish and reptiles, the last 7 just fish. it is only in the last year my tanks have become manageable to the point i can focus else where and on other things but still feel satisfaction out of my hobbie(no longer an obsession). both tank low maintenance, wc take about an hour simple filtration aids cleaning and hardy fish means i can slip every now and then. i now get my kick out of the science and study of my goonch as my dovii's look after them selve if feed and WC. maybe next year she will get here holiday lol

i do remember a time when i would finish work friday for the weekend and spend it all cleaning no time to do anything else. much more enjoyable now

 

[nossalucard]

Every ask yourself why, you stay in the hobby?


Anyway, this goes out to all you guys and gals that have a love/hate relationship with this hobby. And my fellow addicts. When you are elbow deep in slime and washing out your filters, and your python has just spilled water all over you new carpet and you ask your why do I even bother doing this. To my brothers and sisters who aren't out having a drink with their friends because they are doing a water change, or up in the middle of the night with an "oh crap" moment draining that 180... I'm right there with you, asking why.

THIS...

Yes I do ask myself why.....<sigh>... and then I somehow keep doing it.

I've been in this hobby since I was 13 (1985), albeit with a few breaks here and there due to moves when I was active duty. It's always been my stress relief, or so I've always told myself.

And then.. I have baad days like 2 days ago (Friday) my 8inch SOLITARY (in 54 Corner tank) FH fliped out sometime during the day when I was work, and injures his hump, leaving a big hole/gash where he hit the filter intake. Whats bad, is I had just taken the prefilter sponge off of that intake 6 weeks earlier because he kept biting chunks out of it. FOCK!!!!!

I h8te these larger fish sometimes and their odd behavior out of the blue. I swear they do this dumb crap just to piss me off..ughhhh

 

[nossalucard]

I love the hobby but am going through this right now. I only have 3 tanks running slowly got it down from 5 or 6. Would love to get it down to 2 but that would mean rehoming fish or upgrading one of the smaller tanks.

I feel ya.

Just got mine down to 5 from 10. Might have to shut down one or two more. Still want that 300 (in theory wanted to shut all the others down and put all the fish together in that) but just can't do it right now - higher priorities...or so the wife says....

 

[Fish on Fire]

I stay on because I love fish and pets in general, have always had pets around. Plus side of fish is that there is no issue with just leaving them alone for a week or two and going off on a trip (unless you have fry and want to raise them). The hobby becomes a chore when you have too many aquariums or are breeding expensive/hard to keep fish for the purpose of selling. That's when it stops being fun to me. So now my goal is to just keep what I enjoy without worrying about saving/raising fry.

 

[Hendre]

I stay on because I love fish and pets in general, have always had pets around. Plus side of fish is that there is no issue with just leaving them alone for a week or two and going off on a trip (unless you have fry and want to raise them). The hobby becomes a chore when you have too many aquariums or are breeding expensive/hard to keep fish for the purpose of selling. That's when it stops being fun to me. So now my goal is to just keep what I enjoy without worrying about saving/raising fry.

Good view. I'm just trying to find something to breed to make me money for fish food and all, not for profit really

 

[PYRU]

It's a balance. Living within your means. I use to kill myself trying to change water. I only have time for one big tank and one medium so that's what I keep. I'd rather do a handful of things great than everything mediocre.

 

[Yuki Rihwa]

*Well, I stay in this hobby cause it's the cheapest hobby compared to other hobbies...relax at home falling asleep looking at my fishes!
*Painball/AirSoft: 75 bucks a night at minimum + gas and time to drive there and carrying home brushes if I have a bad day and keep getting hits (minus all few thousand bucks brand name equipment).
*Photographer is fun but I have to drive countless hours to some destination, fly almost everywhere when my group decided to go to some places out of nowhere LOL It's fun and can be treated like short vacation and open my eyes to some of unknown worlds....Again, cost **** load of money for equipment and time...
*The last hobby is the most dangerous and I love the most. It's car and motorcycle racing, I modified my car/motor with all after market part to make it fast...really really fast! Nothing beat the fast feeling when your car hit 180 MPH mark , I walked out alive in few deadly crashed...third time is a charm so I believe that I won't have another "lucky" change next time so I stopped (I might just do modifying my cars for fun and not for racing anymore hehehe)