Feel like giving up

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Mbutiful

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Does anyone ever get the feeling like they should stop keeping animals?
recently things just keep going downhill for me, this morning my baby bearded dragon died, last night my fugu puffer got trapped between a rock, a few days back my mbu killed my pike then contracted ich himself.

Now i am getting to the stage that i think i kill more of my animals than the wild does! I still have a 180 and 120 to be set up downstairs and now it makes me wonder why i should do it, to dissapoint myself when a fish dies or something brakes on the tank.

Just seems like a damn shame and waste of money at times, i strive for one of them moments when my head looks up and my fish make me think they are worth their keeping.:confused:
 
I always remind myself that each thing happens for a reason, they are not random. I don't mean fate, I just mean that there is a specific reason that which I can at the very least learn from.

I had an impeccable record for keeping fish alive and healthy until I got my house about three years. I have been responsible for more fish deaths in three years then I would ever mention. Mostly because of my naivety about water chemistry. I gave up for a year, and finally came back to it. Sometimes you need a break, just don't offload your equipment, you will regret it, esp the big expensive tanks.
 
Yeah, maybe i should just keep my chin up and hope that things go better from now on, maybe just cut down to the bigger tanks and concentrate more on them. just seems a stab in the balls when animals pass once i have spent a lot of time on their upkeep. hopefully things go on the mend and i have more inspiration.
 
Its not like you were doing all this intentionally !! You obviously want to keep these different animals, and are very concerned about failures, and thats the most important part. I lost a 75 gal reef tank once because i hadnt done my homework, my fish got ick, i took at face value advice from a LFS that obviously knew about as much as i did, i dumped in some copper to kill the ick, and wound up killing the whole tank, got up to find what appeared to be a 75 gal of choclate milk, there went about 500.00 worth of rock, fish, critters etc. And right then i wanted to shove it all in the woods and quit. But i didnt, and now ive got tanks full of healthy happy Natives. So pull up your pants, do a little research, and keep on Truckin :nilly:
 
Im actually the opposite. I have some fish, that I dont really care for years and I hoped something would happen to them. I also have a parrot that will Im sure out live me. I havent had a fish fatality in 5 years. I hope some will pass of old age as some are like 12 years old. But Im a guy that keeps an animal for its entire life. Like they are family or something.
 
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