Ever feel like quitting?

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I really felt like quitting about 2 years ago. I was really big into the hobby, had a fishroom arrangement in my garage, had a few tanks stuck everywhere really. Breeding discus, oscars, bettas, corydoras, angelfish....had an absolutly beautiful 125G reef tank that was flourishing. Had a big mean as **** male motoro ray...about to buy a leo ray to go with him. A winter power outage that lasted for about 4 days in sub zero weather claimed about 90% of my tanks. Reef was completely dead, as were my rays discus...oscars etc. The only fish I had survive were a pair of tinfoil barbs, my pair of butterfish, and a couple of baby red bellied piranhas and maybe a couple of bettas. I broke down and have put in storage/or sold about 30 tanks. I like my new collection of easier to tend tanks which are more for "show" than anything....its not a burdon that could crash at anytime anymore :)
 
wow... thats such a great loss.... I wouldnt know how to rebuild myself up from there after losing and wasting the fish and money..
 
I really neglected the fish that remained admittedly, it was a depressing thing. Luckily I sold alot of my practically new reef equipment to a LFS here to recover some of my losses. I was getting to a point in my life(work and school) that was about to prevent me from running 30+tanks so nature did my picking and choosing for me so to say. Thus the tanks I have now are a bit more low key, and I probably wont be buying any really exotics in the near future either. Ive sort of reverted my ways of fishkeeping onto a more hobby scale than one of profit as it once was, I actually enjoy it a bit more like this :)
 
fishkeeping? never...:tropicalf

my job? yes, on a daily basis.:irked:
 
richardhmc;1216203; said:
I feel like quitting fishkeeping.... things never seem to work right for me.
plus, i get bored of fishkeeping. anyone feel this way or is it just me?
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Get new fish:headbang2
 
I occasionally feel the same way.

I need to try something different.
 
I could never quit..i have too much to learn yet.. and you can never know enough..
 
I just tried to quit (only for a short time) and couldn't do it.

I got down to my last tank and just couldn't sell it. that was like last week and since then I have purchased to more tanks.

I did sell all my fish and am going to try all new fish I've never kept so I'm siked about that!!!
 
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